function remove_word($s, $word) {
preg_match_all('/\w+/', strtolower($s), $matches);
$words = $matches[0];
$new_str = implode(' ', array_filter($words, function($w) use ($word) {
return $w !== $word;
}));
return $new_str;
}
function get_top_n_words($s, $n) {
// Exclude stop words (commonly used words)
$stop_words = ["is", "a", "to", "as", "now", "by", "on", "and", "the", "it", "was"];
foreach ($stop_words as $word) {
$s = remove_word($s, $word);
}
// Split the string into words
preg_match_all('/\w+/', strtolower($s), $matches);
$words = $matches[0];
// Count the occurrences of each word
$word_count = array_count_values($words);
// Sort the words by their occurrences and get the top N words
arsort($word_count);
$top_n_words = array_slice($word_count, 0, $n, true);
return $top_n_words;
}
$s = "PHP is a general-purpose scripting language geared towards
web development. It was originally created by Danish-Canadian programmer
Rasmus Lerdorf. The PHP reference implementation is now produced by the
PHP Group. PHP was originally an abbreviation of Personal Home Page,
but it now stands for the recursive acronym PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.";
$n = 5;
$top_n_words = get_top_n_words($s, $n);
foreach ($top_n_words as $key => $value) {
echo $key . "\n";
}
/*
run:
php
originally
general
purpose
scripting
*/