/** Function that count occurrences of a substring in a string;
 * @param {String} string               The string
 * @param {String} subString            The sub string to search for
 * @param {Boolean} [allowOverlapping]  Optional. (Default:false)
 *
 * @author Vitim.us https://gist.github.com/victornpb/7736865
 * @see Unit Test https://jsfiddle.net/Victornpb/5axuh96u/
 * @see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4009756/how-to-count-string-occurrence-in-string/7924240#7924240
 */
function occurrences(string, subString, allowOverlapping) {

    string += "";
    subString += "";
    if (subString.length = 0) {
            ++n;
            pos += step;
        } else break;
    }
    return n;
}

occurrences("foofoofoo", "bar"); //0

occurrences("foofoofoo", "foo"); //3

occurrences("foofoofoo", "foofoo"); //1

occurrences("foofoofoo", "foofoo", true); //2

  foofoofoo
1 `----´
2    `----´

function countInstances(string, word) {
   return string.split(word).length - 1;
}

var theString = "This is a string.";
console.log(theString.split("is").length - 1);

var temp = "This is a string.";

function countOcurrences(str, value) {
  var regExp = new RegExp(value, "gi");
  return (str.match(regExp) || []).length;
}

console.log(countOcurrences(temp, 'is'));

String.prototype.count = function(search) {
    var m = this.match(new RegExp(search.toString().replace(/(?=[.\\+*?[^\]$(){}\|])/g, "\\"), "g"));
    return m ? m.length:0;
}

 var string = 'This is a string',
    searchFor = 'is',
    count = 0,
    pos = string.indexOf(searchFor);

while (pos > -1) {
    ++count;
    pos = string.indexOf(searchFor, ++pos);
}

console.log(count);   // 2

alert(("This is a string.".match(/is/g) || []).length);

String.prototype.Count = function (find) {
    return this.split(find).length - 1;
}

console.log("This is a string.".Count("is"));

    String.prototype.timesCharExist = function ( chr ) {
        var total = 0, last_location = 0, single_char = ( chr + '' )[0];
        while( last_location = this.indexOf( single_char, last_location ) + 1 )
        {
            total = total + 1;
        }
        return total;
    };

    'The char "a" only shows up twice'.timesCharExist('a');

    String.prototype.timesCharExist=function(c){var t=0,l=0,c=(c+'')[0];while(l=this.indexOf(c,l)+1)++t;return t};

    var x=Array(100001).join('1234567890');

    console.time('proto');x.timesCharExist('1');console.timeEnd('proto');

    console.time('regex');x.match(/1/g).length;console.timeEnd('regex');

    var timesCharExist=function(x,c){var t=0,l=0,c=(c+'')[0];while(l=x.indexOf(c,l)+1)++t;return t;};

    console.time('func');timesCharExist(x,'1');console.timeEnd('func');

var temp = "This is a string.";
console.log((temp.match(new RegExp("is", "g")) || []).length);

 var index = "This is a string".indexOf("is");
 console.log(index);
 var length = "This is a string".match(/[a-z]/g).length;
 // where [a-z] is a regex wildcard expression thats why its slower
 console.log(length);

function occurrences (haystack, needle) {
  var _needle = needle
    .replace(/\[/g, '\\[')
    .replace(/\]/g, '\\]')
  return (
    haystack.match(new RegExp('[' + _needle + ']', 'g')) || []
  ).length
}

String.prototype.count = function(substr,start,overlap) {
    overlap = overlap || false;
    start = start || 0;

    var count = 0, 
        offset = overlap ? 1 : substr.length;

    while((start = this.indexOf(substr, start) + offset) !== (offset - 1))
        ++count;
    return count;
};

       var myString = "This is a string.";
        var foundAtPosition = 0;
        var Count = 0;
        while (foundAtPosition != -1)
        {
            foundAtPosition = myString.indexOf("is",foundAtPosition);
            if (foundAtPosition != -1)
            {
                Count++;
                foundAtPosition++;
            }
        }
        document.write("There are " + Count + " occurrences of the word IS");

function keywordOccurrences(string, subString, allowOverlapping, caseInsensitive, wholeWord)
{

    string += "";
    subString += "";
    if (subString.length = 0)
        {
            var matchPos = pos;
            pos += step; //slide forward the position pointer no matter what

            if(wholeWord) //only whole word matches are desired
            {
                if(matchPos > 0) //if the string is not at the very beginning we need to check if the previous character is whitespace
                {                        
                    if(!/[\s\u2000-\u206F\u2E00-\u2E7F\\'!"#$%&\(\)*+,\-.\/:;?@\[\]^_`{|}~]/.test(string[matchPos - 1])) //ignore punctuation
                    {
                        continue; //then this is not a match
                    }
                }

                var matchEnd = matchPos + subStringLength;
                if(matchEnd < stringLength - 1)
                {                        
                    if (!/[\s\u2000-\u206F\u2E00-\u2E7F\\'!"#$%&\(\)*+,\-.\/:;?@\[\]^_`{|}~]/.test(string[matchEnd])) //ignore punctuation
                    {
                        continue; //then this is not a match
                    }
                }
            }

            ++n;                
        } else break;
    }
    return n;
}

function get_occurrence(varS,string){//Find All Occurrences
        c=(string.split(varS).length - 1);
        return c;
    }
    temp="This is a string.";
    console.log("Total Occurrence is "+get_occurrence("is",temp));

<?php 
$str = "33,33,56,89,56,56";
echo substr_count($str, '56');
?>

<script type="text/javascript">
var temp = "33,33,56,89,56,56";
var count = temp.match(/56/g);  
alert(count.length);
</script>

String.prototype.occurrencesOf = function(s, i) {
 return (n => (n === -1) ? 0 : 1 + this.occurrencesOf(s, n + 1))(this.indexOf(s, (i || 0)));
};

var temp = "This is a string.";

var count = (temp.split('is').length - 1);

alert(count);