trim sorted array

final question for today... I've gotten far (thanks to all of you!), but i need to go even further.. I got a sorted array, and i need to have the upper highest values, so the i need to trim all the lower values under the highest...

value  key
Boerée开发者_如何学运维 5
Bour 5
Linszen 4
de Wilde 3
Dingemans 3
Koelman 3
Tijssen 1
van der Meer 1
Bakker 1
de Haan 1
van Tricht 1
Nieman 1
Boer 1

Regards

It's sorted so you just make a loop for the amount of results that you want? Smells like homework so I'm not gonna post a full example. (Think I posted to much already).

$amount = 5;
for($i = 0; $i < amount; i++)

Ok, I think this should work, assuming I understand what you mean. I just felt like writing it too much to wait for your answer :)

function onlyTheStrong($array) {
    $returnArray = array();

    foreach ($array as $key => $value) {
        if (!isset($max) || $value > $max) {
            $max = $value;
            $returnArray = array($key => $value);
        } else if ($value == $max) {
            $returnArray[$key] = $value;
        }
    }

    return $returnArray;
}

It works for an unsorted array as well.

EDIT:

How about that, you can just use:

$top_authors = array_keys($authors, max($authors));