It's easy to count the number of words in a string or block of text
<?php
$myText = "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" ;
$words = explode ( ' ' , $myText );
$wordCount = count ( $words );
if( $wordCount > 50 ) {
// text contained too many words
}
?>
It's not 100% acurate (can be more acurate with a regular expression to account for other forms of
white space, like newlines and tabs) but it's quick!
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Alternatively, you can also use the native function str_word_count() (since PHP 4.3.0).