Saving data from database into associative array with counting up - PHP - php

Question

I would like to sort data from my database. I want to use associative arrays so it can be sorted the best.
I get all the data from a database, as said above. By doing $row['manufacturer'] I'll get some data like the following:
motorola
sony
motorola
google
samsung
lg
samsung
I would like it to be saved like this in the array: (order is not important, although alphabetically is preferred)
"motorola" => 2
"sony" => 1
"google" => 1
"samsung" => 2
"lg" => 1
I tried it by doing this, but it just didn't work and caused my web host to clean the logs, as it caused almost 2 gigs of log files.
The code I wrote to save it
$manufacturers = array();
//$row are the rows from my database. I will not add them, but by doing $row['manufacturer'] you'll get some brands like google, motorola, etc.
while($row = $resultSelect->fetch_assoc()) {
for ($i = 0; $i < $manufacturers; $i++) {
$alreadyEntered = 0;
if ($manufacturers[$i] == $row['manufacturer']) $alreadyEntered = 1;
if ($alreadyEntered == 0) {
$manufacturers[$row['manufacturer']] = 1;
} else {
$manufacturers[$row['manufacturer']] += 1;
}
//It caused huge logs, so I decided to break on 50.
if ($i > 50) {
break;
}
}
}
//Dump it :) to see if it worked
var_dump($manufacturers);
I have no idea how I can make it work. I tried searching on Google and SO for setting values in associative arrays, but nothing worked.
EDIT:
My rows:

Answer 1

You could do it through SQL query.
Using the count and group by query.
SELECT name, COUNT(*) as total
FROM manufactures
GROUP BY name
ORDER BY name ASC
name is your manufactures name column. manufactures is your table name.
Example PHP code:
$sql="SELECT name, COUNT(*) as total
FROM manufactures
GROUP BY name
ORDER BY name ASC";
$result=mysqli_query($con,$sql);
while($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result))
{
echo "Name: ". $row['name'] . " Total: ". $row['total'] . "<br>";
}
Brief explanation:
What the query will do is that it will select all manufactures name, and count them. By in the same time, it will group together the names, which means, multiple same name will be grouped together, and counted together. Finally order by name asc is used to sort the result alphabetically in ascending order (A->Z).