get Directory/File info

[tensuke]

Hey,I'm new to PHP so I'm still learning,but I have a question:
How do you get the number of files in a certain directory and store that into a variable?

And also,what would be the correct way display that variable's data?

Thanks for any help. ^_^

[hitman6003]

Check the manual:

[a href=\"http://www.php.net/dir\" target=\"_blank\"]http://www.php.net/dir[/a]

There is a lot of good info there. Especially the user comments at the bottom.

There are a couple of functions there that will return an array with all the file names and subdirectory names in an array that you can then do a count on to get the number of files in the directory.

To display the value of nearly any variable, you can use either echo or print.

[a href=\"http://www.php.net/echo\" target=\"_blank\"]http://www.php.net/echo[/a]
[a href=\"http://www.php.net/print\" target=\"_blank\"]http://www.php.net/print[/a]

For arrays, use the print_r function:

[a href=\"http://www.php.net/print_r\" target=\"_blank\"]http://www.php.net/print_r[/a]

[tensuke]

Thanks for the info,that helped. :D

EDIT:
Howdy,
I'm using
[code]
<?php
$dir = "/ipbfree";
$dh  = opendir($dir);
while (false !== ($filename = readdir($dh))) {
   $ipbfree[] = $filename;
}

echo count($ipbfree);
?>
[/code]
to scan the files in the directory ipbfree.Ipbfree is in the same folder as the index.html that is running the script.
But everytime I try to fix it,it doesn't display anything.The number is between [ ],and so it just shoes [].
I am using PHP 4.3.11.Any ideas?

[tensuke]

Anyone?

[Twentyoneth]

php cannot be run in an html file, rename it to index.php

[kenrbnsn]

Look at the [a href=\"http://www.php.net/glob\" target=\"_blank\"]glob[/a]() function. It's much easier to use.
[code]<?php
$ipbfree = glob('/ipbfree');
echo count($ipbfree);
?>[/code]

Ken