php array sorting help needed

[kurbsdude]

Hi,

 

I have a small problem. I have an array something like the following:

 

array[0] = "a"

array[1] = "b"

array[2] = "c"

array[3] = "a"

array[4] = "a"

 

Now I want to sort this array with respect to the frequency of occurrence of each character. So, basically this array should be rearranged as,

 

array[0] = "a"

array[1] = "a"

array[2] = "a"

array[3] = "b"

array[4] = "c"

 

How would this be done?

[ratcateme]

i have never done this before but maybe array_count_values() could do it something like:

$array[0] = "a";
$array[1] = "b";
$array[2] = "c";
$array[3] = "b";
$array[4] = "b";
$temp = array_count_values($array);
arsort($temp);
$array = array();
foreach ($array as $value => $count) {
for ($i = 0; $i < $count; $i++) {
	$array[] = $value;			
}
}
print_r($array);

 

 

[PravinS]

User asort(array) function

[ratcateme]

asort()

wont work it gives

Array
(
    [0] => b
    [1] => c
    [2] => a
    [3] => a
    [4] => a
)

 

Scott.

 

[Maq]

*Will not maintain the correlation of the indices.

 

sort($array, SORT_STRING)

[PFMaBiSmAd]

I want to sort this array with respect to the frequency of occurrence of each character