Counting how many times a word appears in a var?

I've made a small search function as of here:

if (stristr($bleh,$search_for)) {
if(preg_match('/<title>([^<]*)<\/title>/i', $bleh, $matches))
{
$name = str_replace("./","/",$name);
echo "<li><a href=$link".$name.">".$matches[1]."</a><br><br>";

}


Now this actually works fine, and gives me a page link and title of a
page, based on pages that contain the search term.

Im now trying to rationalise the code a bit more, so that the order of
the links depends on how many times that certain word appears on the
page.

Any ideas please?

My understanding is that i need to somehow count how many times the
$search_for text appears in the $bleh text, and then move onto the next
page.

On 26 Oct 2006 02:41:00 -0700, "Advo" <max_mischief@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>I've made a small search function as of here:
>
>if (stristr($bleh,$search_for)) {
> if(preg_match('/<title>([^<]*)<\/title>/i', $bleh, $matches))
>{
> $name = str_replace("./","/",$name);
> echo "<li><a href=$link".$name.">".$matches[1]."</a><br><br>";
>
> }
>
>
>Now this actually works fine, and gives me a page link and title of a
>page, based on pages that contain the search term.
>
>Im now trying to rationalise the code a bit more, so that the order of
>the links depends on how many times that certain word appears on the
>page.
>
>Any ideas please?
>
>My understanding is that i need to somehow count how many times the
>$search_for text appears in the $bleh text, and then move onto the next
>page.

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.substr-count.php

Tyrone Slothrop wrote:

> On 26 Oct 2006 02:41:00 -0700, "Advo" <max_mischief@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>I've made a small search function as of here:
>>
>>if (stristr($bleh,$search_for)) {
>>if(preg_match('/<title>([^<]*)<\/title>/i', $bleh, $matches))
>>{
>>$name = str_replace("./","/",$name);
>>echo "<li><a href=$link".$name.">".$matches[1]."</a><br><br>";
>>
>>}
>>
>>
>>Now this actually works fine, and gives me a page link and title of a
>>page, based on pages that contain the search term.
>>
>>Im now trying to rationalise the code a bit more, so that the order of
>>the links depends on how many times that certain word appears on the
>>page.
>>
>>Any ideas please?
>>
>>My understanding is that i need to somehow count how many times the
>>$search_for text appears in the $bleh text, and then move onto the next
>>page.
>
> http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.substr-count.php

Oh Tyrone, that guy is having a great time with regex, and now you spoiled
all the fun with an easy ready-to-go built-in function. :P

Erwin

Erwin Moller wrote:
> Tyrone Slothrop wrote:
>
> > On 26 Oct 2006 02:41:00 -0700, "Advo" <max_mischief@hotmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >>I've made a small search function as of here:
> >>
> >>if (stristr($bleh,$search_for)) {
> >>if(preg_match('/<title>([^<]*)<\/title>/i', $bleh, $matches))
> >>{
> >>$name = str_replace("./","/",$name);
> >>echo "<li><a href=$link".$name.">".$matches[1]."</a><br><br>";
> >>
> >>}
> >>
> >>
> >>Now this actually works fine, and gives me a page link and title of a
> >>page, based on pages that contain the search term.
> >>
> >>Im now trying to rationalise the code a bit more, so that the order of
> >>the links depends on how many times that certain word appears on the
> >>page.
> >>
> >>Any ideas please?
> >>
> >>My understanding is that i need to somehow count how many times the
> >>$search_for text appears in the $bleh text, and then move onto the next
> >>page.
> >
> > http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.substr-count.php
>
> Oh Tyrone, that guy is having a great time with regex, and now you spoiled
> all the fun with an easy ready-to-go built-in function. :P
>
> Erwin

err no.. what he gave me does aditional tasks to what the code i pasted
does. the code i pasted also works 100% as expected, and as needed.

the code i am after and looking towards will add to this existing code,
not replace it. thanks then