php get most and least occurring values from Multidimensional arrays

Question

I want to get most and least occuring values from php sequential/indexes, assoc and multidimensional arrays

Consider the following dataSet

        $dataSet = [
            'users' => 
            [
                'id' => 1,
                'name' => "Alex",
                'username' => 'alex',
            ],
            [
                'id' => 2,
                'name' => "Alex",
                'username' => 'alex'
            ],
            [
                'id' => 2,
                'name' => "Peter Khot",
                'username' => 'peter',
            ]
        ];

Here above are samples dataSet

Here is what that i tried

    function most_occurring(array $array, $key)
    {
        $dataSet = [];
        $i = 0;
        $keys = [];
        foreach ($array as $k) {
            if (in_array($k[$key], $keys)) {
                $keys[$i] = $k[$key];
                $dataSet[$i] = $k;
            } 

            $i++;
        }

        return $dataSet;
    }

I tried above code for most occurring values but not working at all, help me in most and least occuring values from arrays. Thanks

Answer 1

Thanks to KIKO Software, you can still use array_count_values() for this cases. You will also need to use array_columns() and array_search() in this situation. You can refer to this link to see how array_search() helps in finding the maximum/minimum value and its corresponding key inside an array. To find the most or least occurrence, simply echo the last 6 variables that I have declared in the last 6 lines.

EDIT* reference: unset array_push

*And also, your first data in the assoc array is indexed 'user', but the second data in the assoc array is not indexed and hence it is indexed as 0.

$dataSet = [
            'users' => 
            [
                'id' => 1,
                'name' => "Alex",
                'username' => 'alex',
            ],
            [
                'id' => 2,
                'name' => "Alex",
                'username' => 'alex'
            ],
            [
                'id' => 2,
                'name' => "Peter Khot",
                'username' => 'peter',
            ]
        ];
$id = array_column($dataSet,'id');
$name = array_column($dataSet, 'name');
$username = array_column($dataSet, 'username');
$occur_id = array_count_values($id);
$occur_name = array_count_values($name);
$occur_username = array_count_values($username);
$most_occur_id  = array_search(max($occur_id),$occur_id);
$most_occur_name  = array_search(max($occur_name),$occur_name);
$most_occur_username  = array_search(max($occur_username),$occur_username);
$least_occur_id  = array_search(min($occur_id),$occur_id);
$least_occur_name  = array_search(min($occur_name),$occur_name);
$least_occur_username  = array_search(min($occur_username),$occur_username);

EDIT*: (In case of multiple highest occurence OR all same occurence, just add below code right below the above code.)

$flag = true;
$most_occur_name_list = [];
$count = 0;
while($flag)
{
  $most_occur_name_ct =  max($occur_name);
  if($most_occur_name_ct == $count || $count == 0)
    {
      array_push($most_occur_name_list,array_search($most_occur_name_ct,$occur_name));
      unset($occur_name[array_search($most_occur_name_ct,$occur_name)]);
      $count = $most_occur_name_ct;
      if(count($occur_name) == 0)
      {
          $flag = false;
          break;
      }
    }
  else
    {
      $most_occur_name_ct = $count;
      $flag = false;
      break;
    }
}

//must reinitialize the array
$occur_name = array_count_values($name);
$flag = true;
$least_occur_name_list = [];
$count = 0;
while($flag)
{
  $least_occur_name_ct =  min($occur_name);
  if($least_occur_name_ct == $count || $count == 0)
    {
      array_push($least_occur_name_list,array_search($least_occur_name_ct,$occur_name));
      unset($occur_name[array_search($least_occur_name_ct,$occur_name)]);
      $count = $least_occur_name_ct;
      if(count($occur_name) == 0)
      {
          $flag = false;
          break;
      }
    }
  else
    {
      $least_occur_name_ct = $count;
      $flag = false;
      break;
    }
}
if($most_occur_name_ct == $least_occur_name_ct)
{
    $most_occur_name_list = [];
    $least_occur_name_list = [];
}
echo "<pre>";
print_r($most_occur_name_list);

Answer 2

If you wanted to get a list of the min and max number of occurrences for just 1 element of the multidimensional array, then this code may offer a shorter method - comments in code...

$dataSet = [
    'users' =>
    [
        'id' => 1,
        'name' => "Alex",
        'username' => 'alex',
    ],
    [
        'id' => 2,
        'name' => "Alex",
        'username' => 'alex'
    ],
    [
        'id' => 2,
        'name' => "Peter Khot",
        'username' => 'peter',
    ],
    [
        'id' => 2,
        'name' => "Peter Khot",
        'username' => 'peter',
    ],
    [
        'id' => 2,
        'name' => "Paul Khot",
        'username' => 'Paul',
    ]
];

// Create an array which has the username column, but retaining the keys from
// the original array
$set = array_combine(array_keys($dataSet), 
        array_column($dataSet, "username" ));
// Summarise the values
$count = array_count_values($set);

// Get a list of the keys which match the max and min values
$minRecords = array_keys($count,min($count));
$maxRecords = array_keys($count,max($count));
// Fetch the details for the maximum value (first one returned)
$maxElements = [];
foreach ( $maxRecords as $max ) {
    $maxElements[] = $dataSet[array_search($max, $set )];
}

// Same for min values
$minElements = [];
foreach ( $minRecords as $min ) {
    $minElements[] = $dataSet[array_search($min, $set )];
}

print_r($maxElements);
print_r($minElements);

With the test data I've added, you get the output...

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [id] => 1
            [name] => Alex
            [username] => alex
        )

    [1] => Array
        (
            [id] => 2
            [name] => Peter Khot
            [username] => peter
        )

)
Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [id] => 2
            [name] => Paul Khot
            [username] => Paul
        )

)