Simple count files

[birman]

Hi

How can I do count all files within all directories contained in one directory?

Example:

 

/root

/file1.txt

-dir1/file1.jpg

-dir1/dir_2/file5.png, others.doc

-dir1/dir_2/otherfile.php

........

 

Total: 5 files

 

Thanks

[Yesideez]

You mean you want to show the files on the server?

 

http://www.php.net/scandir

 

That might be what you're looking for.

[birman]

yes, i want only count the files in a path.

 

I've used this code but it doesn't go beyond the ./dir1

 

   

$files = scandir("./dir1", 1);
echo "<pre>";
var_dump($files);
echo "</pre>";

[Yesideez]

First, no need to have "./" in your path as you're pointing to the same folder. Use "../" if you want to go back a folder.

[birman]

i use ./dir1 because i have the script and the dir1 in the same folder.

 

and i count all the file in all the directories contained in the ./dir1

[Yesideez]

scandir will onyl scan the current folder.

 

If you want it to look inside folders it finds you'll have to write a routine to recursively run through the folders it finds.

[birman]

can you post a example code of a routine to read more directories, please?

[Yesideez]

I've not written one myself as I've not had the need to but I'm sure you can find one if you head towards google?

 

This may be of help:

http://lixlpixel.org/recursive_function/php/get_size_recursively/

[GingerRobot]

Got bored, so i put this together:

 

 

<?php
function no_of_files($start_dir,$sub_dir=FALSE){
	$no_of_files=0;
	if($sub_dir === false){
	$handler = opendir($start_dir);	
}else{
 	$start_dir = $start_dir.$sub_dir;
	$handler = opendir($start_dir);
}

while(false !== ($file = readdir($handler))){
	if($file != '.' && $file != '..'){
		if(is_dir($start_dir.'\\'.$file)){//if this is a directory, recall the function with the subdirectory defined
			$dir_name = '\\'.$file;
			$no_of_files += no_of_files($start_dir,$dir_name);	
		}else{//is a file, so increase our counter
			$no_of_files++;	
		}	
	}
}
return $no_of_files;
}
echo no_of_files('C:\Documents and Settings\Ben\My Documents\My Music');
?>

 

Tested and compared with the number of files reported by windows. Seems to work fine to me.