php: sort and count instances of words in a given string

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Published on 2010-06-06T15:40:58Z Indexed on 2010/06/06 15:42 UTC
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Hello, I need help sorting and counting instances of the words in a string.

Lets say I have a collection on words:

happy beautiful happy lines pear gin happy lines rock happy lines pear

How could I use php to count each instance of every word in the string and output it in a loop:

There are $count instances of $word

So that the above loop would output:

There are 4 instances of happy. There are 3 instances of lines. There are 2 instances of gin....

Thank you for your genius.

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