Justin French wrote:
> It depends on what you define as a word, but let's take the simple
> approach of stripping HTML et al, and exploding the string on the
> spaces, then counting the array of words:
>
> <?
> $str = "This is my <b> text </b> that I want to count";
> $words = explode(' ', strip_tags($str));
> $count = count($words);

I believe substr_count() is faster than that method.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.substr-count.php


  Jome



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