Order Items of an Array by quanity?

Lets say I have an array like so:



And I want to print it like so:

apple - 3
pear - 2
orange - 1

How would one do that? Do I need to loop twice, once to count the items, and then once to organize and print with numbers?

Oh and as a side note, I am talking about PHP here, sorry!

I could be wrong, but I think that is exactly how I would do it for that situation. I am not aware of anyway to do what you want with a single sort or single loop through. This function:

array_count_values

might be useful for you though, it does count all of the values in the array. So you might be able to run that function first, then do a sort on the array.

array_count_values() is exactly what you want. Since the output is a hash, it's technically already sorted.