PHP Count files in dir
Dec 10, 2008
Author: City Hall
How to count files in one directorium with php
We know that in linux hiden files have dot (.filename)
also we have system dirs
.(curent)
..(main dir)
filename
.filename2
with simple code for counting files:
$count = 0;
$hd = opendir("C:\\xampp\\htdocs\\test\\");
while(($file = readdir($hd)) !== false) {
$count++;
}
echo $count;
count result will be 4 files .
We need to eliminate files who don't need us. In our case don't need to count hiden files and file system direcotories.
This is the simple code for filtering.
<?php
$count = 0;
$hd = opendir("C:\\xampp\\htdocs\\test\\");
while(($file = readdir($hd)) !== false) {
if ($file[0] != "."){
$count++;}
}
echo $count;
?>
count result will be 1 files
That's all more ideas next time
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