PHP port of sylae/word-count. This should provide an accurate wordcount taking into account apostrophes and hyphens and stuff. See iarna's project for disclaimers on what languages this method may not work well with.
composer require uffe-code/word-count
<?php
use UffeCode\Wordcount;
$string = "This string has five words!";
$count = Wordcount::count($string); // int(5)
- PSR-4.
- Write tests.
- Create a PR.
MIT