How to Count the Number of Words in String in Laravel

Hi Developers,

Today lets learn how to count the number of words in the string in both frontend and backend for performing calculations in frontend and to analyse any incoming data from the user to the database, Lets see how both the method is done.

In some cases we need to count the number of words submitted by the user to avoid overload while storing the data in the database.

To avoid this issue we need to analysis the input string before adding,

Lets see how to count the number of words in a string using the Str::wordCount function in Laravel Controller

<?php

     

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

    

use Illuminate\Http\Request;

use Illuminate\Support\Str;

    

class UserController extends Controller

{

    /**

     * Display a listing of the resource.

     *

     * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response

     */

    public function index(Request $request)

    {

    	$string = "Hello world! This is a test string by ITSolutionsGuides.";

        $words = Str::wordCount($string);

  

        dd($words);

    }

}

Sometime we need to count the number of words in the frontend for better execution speed. To achieve that we need to use the function in the blade file inside the double curly braces.

Lets see how to count the number of words in a string using the Str::wordCount function in Laravel Blade file.

<p>{{ Str::wordCount("Hello world! This is a test string by ITSolutionsGuides.") }}</p>

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