note 32160 modified in function.str-word-count by aidan

if string doesn't contain the space " ", the explode method doesn't do anything, so i've wrote this and it seems works better ... i don't know about time and resource <?php function str_incounter($match,$string) { $count_match = 0; for($i=0;$i<strlen($string);$i++) { if(strtolower(substr($string,$i,strlen($match)))==strtolower($match)) { $count_match++; } } return $count_match; } ?> example <?php $string = "something:something!!something"; $count_some = str_incounter("something",$string); // will return 3 ?> --was-- if string doesn't contain the space " ", the explode method doesn't do anything, so i've wrote this and it seems works better ... i don't know about time and resource function str_incounter($match,$string) { $count_match = 0; for($i=0;$i<strlen($string);$i++) { if(strtolower(substr($string,$i,strlen($match)))==strtolower($match)) { $count_match++; } } return $count_match; } // example $string = "something:something!!something"; $count_some = str_incounter("something",$string); // will return 3 http://php.net/manual/en/function.str-word-count.php