how to find and count the words in a string?

[eluser]saidai jagan[/eluser]
Use this,

Code:

$search = '@<[\/\!]*?[^<>]*?&gt;@si'; // Strip the HTML tags
$replace=''; // replacing with none
$strings='<h1 style="text-align: center;">
    <span style="font-family: comic sans ms,cursive;">this is my page and the page is the only page that is nice<br />
    </span></h1>';
$non_html_text = preg_replace($search, $replace, $strings); // here we are removing the html chars
// here it will retun this is my page and the page is the only page that is nice
echo '<br>'.str_word_count($non_html_text); // it will echo 14