What is the best PHP count words class?: Count the number of words in a string

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What is the best PHP count words class? #count words

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by Omotayo Odupitan - 5 days ago (2016-10-25)

Count the number of words in a string

+2	I need to count the number of words in a string.

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• 1. by Oleg Zorin - 4 days ago (2016-10-27) Reply

  Good day, Omotayo Odupitan.

  <code>

  <?php

  function wordsCounter($string) {

  $string = preg_replace('/[^[:alpha:]]+/', ' ', $string);
  

  return count(explode(' ', $string));
  

  }

• 2. by Omotayo Odupitan - 3 days ago (2016-10-27) in reply to comment 1 by Oleg Zorin Comment

  Thank you Oleg Zorin.

  Much appreciated.

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+2	by Manuel Lemos 15990 - 1 hour ago (2016-10-31) Comment If you need a package that works well with UTF-8 and does not depend on the PHP extensions avaliable on your system, that package can solve your problem of counting words.

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• 1. by Omotayo Odupitan - 1 hour ago (2016-10-31) Reply

  Thanks Manuel.