How to show how many files are in a directory thread

[Joseph]

how to show how many files are in a directory

Does anyone have the code to display how many files are in a folder on your website?

Example if i stored my images in a folder called images:

We currently host: 80 photos

Any idea how to do this?

Thanks

Joseph

 

[Tree]

Here's a (modified) example from php.net

<?php
$dir = "/etc/php5/";

// Open a known directory, and proceed to read its contents
if (is_dir($dir)) {
   if ($dh = opendir($dir)) {
       while (($file = readdir($dh)) !== false) {
           $num_of_files++;
       }
       closedir($dh);
   }
}
echo "We host: $num_of_files";
?>

 

[superprogrammer]

Great!!

 

[Joseph]

Thanks

 

[Eric]

And here's a modified version of Tree's modified PHP.net version...

<?php

$dir = "/etc/php5/";

// Open a known directory, and proceed to read its contents
if(is_dir($dir))
{
  if($dh = opendir($dir))
  {
    while(($file = readdir($dh)) !== false)
    {
      if($file != "." && $file != "..")
      {
        $num_of_files++;
      }
    }
    closedir($dh);
  }
}
echo "We host: $num_of_files";

?>

 

[Tree]

Yeah, I guess SecondVersion's is better. Mine would be off by 2 if you're using Apache.

 

[Joseph]

thanks to all, using SV's =)

 

[egkuan]

You could put it in a recursive function, and count files in subfolders as well.