title: Convert the collection object to string or array in php
body: <p>I want to get the count of each variable in an array.
  Am getting the object like [1,1,2,2,3,4,5,4,6]</p>
  
  <pre><code>$array = array(12,43,66,21,56,43,43,78,78,100,43,43,43,21);
  $vals = array_count_values($array);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This function is the solution. But I can't make the collection object to string or array.</p>