How to count folder files using php

hai friends

I need to count the files with in the selected folder.

How to count the files ?? please help me. If any paossibel ple4ase send me sample code.

Thanks
vssp

I wrote a directory reading class in my blog that you could look at:
http://fijiwebdesign.com/content/view/83/77/

Heres how you would count the number of files in a directory using the class in the link above:

/**
* Use the readDir class to count files in the directory
*/

$dir_path = '/my/directory/path'; // change to the directory path

$dir = new readDir(); // instantiate our class
$file_count = 0;

// set the directory to read
$dir->setPath( $dir_path );

// we do not want to read sub folders
$dir->readRecursive(false); 

// set a function to call when a new dir is read
$dir->setEvent( 'readDir_file', 'increment_file_count' );

// read the dir
if ( !$dir->read() ) {
    die($dir->error());
} 

// our custom function called when a new file is read
function increment_file_count($path, $filename) {
	global $file_count;
	
	$file_count++; // increment file count
  
}

echo $file_count; // this is the number of files in the directory $dir_path

Should be quite self explanatory.

If you'd rather go with using the regular php functions, heres an example:

/**
* Count files or sub-directories in a directory
* @author digital-ether at fijiwebdesign.com
*
* @param string directory path
* @param string element type to count (file|dir)
*/
function count_dir_elements($dir_path, $type = 'file') {
	$file_count = 0;
	$dir_count = 0;
	if ($dh = opendir($dir_path)) {
		$i = 0;
		while ($el = readdir($dh)) {
			$path = $dir.'/'.$el;
	
			if (is_dir($path) && $el != '.' && $el != '..') {
				$dir_count++;
			} elseif (is_file($path)) {
				$file_count++;
			}
			$i++;
		}               
	   closedir($dh);
	} else {
		return false;
	}
	return $type == 'file' ? $file_count : $dir_count;
}

// eg: count the files in this directory

echo count_dir_elements(dirname(__FILE__), $type = 'file');

Tanks for ur reply I check the code and let u know

vssp

Thanks its working fine

Thanks a Lot digital-ether You Solved my big problem.
Thanks for your post

Here is a built-way in PHP to do all this :

http://php.net/manual/fr/class.directoryiterator.php