Need help with complex array counting

[Nolongerused3921]

I'm having an incredibly hard time trying to solve this problem... I have an array similar to the following:

[area1] => Array
        (
            [subarea1] => Array
                (
                    [subsubarea1] => Array
                        (
                            [0] => file1.txt
                            [1] => file2.pdf
                        )

                    [0] => blah1.txt
                    [1] => blah.2.txt
                    [2] => etc.mp3
                )

            [subarea2] => Array
                (
                    [subsubarea2.1] => Array
                        (
                            [0] => blah.txt
                        )

                    [subsubarea2.1] => Array
                        (
                            [0] => file1.txt
                            [1] => file2.pdf
                            [2] => file3.mpg
                        )

                )

        )

 

And I need to go through and count all the files (The [ #]s) in each of the sub arrays... But heres the problem - I need to track how many files are in each folder, and all folders underneath it.

Basically, what it boils down to - is I need to find out how many files are in any given folder, including all of it's sub folders - so I can let the user know how many files are in a folder (Obviously).

If anyone can think of a way to cycle through the array and get my answer - that'd be great... If you can think of another, better way to find out how many files are in a folder, and all of it's child folders, then that'd be better

 

Thanks in advanced to anyone who saves me the extra few hours of pulling my hair out... I really hate working with filesystems.

[GingerRobot]

How about this:

 

<?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;
                echo $dir_name.'<br />';
                $no_of_files += no_of_files($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');
?>

 

I made it for a post a while back. Counts the number of files in any directory and all sub directories.

[GingerRobot]

In response to your original question of counting the number of elements within your multidimension array, this should work:

 

<?php
$array = array(1,2,array(1,2,3,array(1,2,3)),3,4,array(array(array(1,2))));
echo '<pre>';
print_r($array);
echo '</pre>';
function count_array($array){
	$num = 0;
foreach($array as $v){
	if(is_array($v)){
		$num += count_array($v);
	}else{
		$num++;
	}
}
return $num;
}
echo 'number of items in your array: '.count_array($array);
?>

[Nolongerused3921]

That works pretty well, but I need to get how many files are in each folder specifically, not a grand total.

Like, theres 9 files in area1 5 files in subarea1, 2 in subsubarea1, etc.

[Nolongerused3921]

Anyone?