Count how many files in directory PHP - php

Question

I'm working on a slightly new project. I wanted to know how many files are in a certain directory.
<div id="header">
<?php
$dir = opendir('uploads/'); # This is the directory it will count from
$i = 0; # Integer starts at 0 before counting
# While false is not equal to the filedirectory
while (false !== ($file = readdir($dir))) {
if (!in_array($file, array('.', '..') and !is_dir($file)) $i++;
}
echo "There were $i files"; # Prints out how many were in the directory
?>
</div>
This is what I have so far (from searching). However, it is not appearing properly? I have added a few notes so feel free to remove them, they are just so I can understand it as best as I can.
If you require some more information or feel as if I haven't described this enough please feel free to state so.

Answer 1

You can simply do the following :
$fi = new FilesystemIterator(__DIR__, FilesystemIterator::SKIP_DOTS);
printf("There were %d Files", iterator_count($fi));

Answer 2

You can get the filecount like so:
$directory = "/path/to/dir/";
$filecount = count(glob($directory . "*"));
echo "There were $filecount files";
where the "*" is you can change that to a specific filetype if you want like "*.jpg" or you could do multiple filetypes like this:
glob($directory . "*.{jpg,png,gif}",GLOB_BRACE)
the GLOB_BRACE flag expands {a,b,c} to match 'a', 'b', or 'c'
Note that glob() skips Linux hidden files, or all files whose names are starting from a dot, i.e. .htaccess.

Answer 3

Try this.
// Directory
$directory = "/dir";
// Returns an array of files
$files = scandir($directory);
// Count the number of files and store them inside the variable..
// Removing 2 because we do not count '.' and '..'.
$num_files = count($files)-2;

Answer 4

You should have :
<div id="header">
<?php
// integer starts at 0 before counting
$i = 0;
$dir = 'uploads/';
if ($handle = opendir($dir)) {
while (($file = readdir($handle)) !== false){
if (!in_array($file, array('.', '..')) && !is_dir($dir.$file))
$i++;
}
}
// prints out how many were in the directory
echo "There were $i files";
?>
</div>

Answer 5

The best answer in my opinion:
$num = count(glob("/exact/path/to/files/" . "*"));
echo $num;
It doesnt counts . and ..
Its a one liner
Im proud of it

Answer 6

Since I needed this too, I was curious as to which alternative was the fastest.
I found that -- if all you want is a file count -- Baba's solution is a lot faster than the others. I was quite surprised.
Try it out for yourself:
<?php
define('MYDIR', '...');
foreach (array(1, 2, 3) as $i)
{
$t = microtime(true);
$count = run($i);
echo "$i: $count (".(microtime(true) - $t)." s)\n";
}
function run ($n)
{
$func = "countFiles$n";
$x = 0;
for ($f = 0; $f < 5000; $f++)
$x = $func();
return $x;
}
function countFiles1 ()
{
$dir = opendir(MYDIR);
$c = 0;
while (($file = readdir($dir)) !== false)
if (!in_array($file, array('.', '..')))
$c++;
closedir($dir);
return $c;
}
function countFiles2 ()
{
chdir(MYDIR);
return count(glob("*"));
}
function countFiles3 () // Fastest method
{
$f = new FilesystemIterator(MYDIR, FilesystemIterator::SKIP_DOTS);
return iterator_count($f);
}
?>
Test run: (obviously, glob() doesn't count dot-files)
1: 99 (0.4815571308136 s)
2: 98 (0.96104407310486 s)
3: 99 (0.26513481140137 s)

Answer 7

Working Demo
<?php
$directory = "../images/team/harry/"; // dir location
if (glob($directory . "*.*") != false)
{
$filecount = count(glob($directory . "*.*"));
echo $filecount;
}
else
{
echo 0;
}
?>

Answer 8

I use this:
count(glob("yourdir/*",GLOB_BRACE))

Answer 9

<?php echo(count(array_slice(scandir($directory),2))); ?>
array_slice works similary like substr function, only it works with arrays.
For example, this would chop out first two array keys from array:
$key_zero_one = array_slice($someArray, 0, 2);
And if You ommit the first parameter, like in first example, array will not contain first two key/value pairs *('.' and '..').

Answer 10

Based on the accepted answer, here is a way to count all files in a directory RECURSIVELY:
iterator_count(
new \RecursiveIteratorIterator(
new \RecursiveDirectoryIterator('/your/directory/here/', \FilesystemIterator::SKIP_DOTS)
)
)

Answer 11

$it = new filesystemiterator(dirname("Enter directory here"));
printf("There were %d Files", iterator_count($it));
echo("<br/>");
foreach ($it as $fileinfo) {
echo $fileinfo->getFilename() . "<br/>\n";
}
This should work
enter the directory in dirname. and let the magic happen.

Answer 12

Maybe usefull to someone. On a Windows system, you can let Windows do the job by calling the dir-command. I use an absolute path, like E:/mydir/mysubdir.
<?php
$mydir='E:/mydir/mysubdir';
$dir=str_replace('/','\\',$mydir);
$total = exec('dir '.$dir.' /b/a-d | find /v /c "::"');

Answer 13

$files = glob('uploads/*');
$count = 0;
$totalCount = 0;
$subFileCount = 0;
foreach ($files as $file)
{
global $count, $totalCount;
if(is_dir($file))
{
$totalCount += getFileCount($file);
}
if(is_file($file))
{
$count++;
}
}
function getFileCount($dir)
{
global $subFileCount;
if(is_dir($dir))
{
$subfiles = glob($dir.'/*');
if(count($subfiles))
{
foreach ($subfiles as $file)
{
getFileCount($file);
}
}
}
if(is_file($dir))
{
$subFileCount++;
}
return $subFileCount;
}
$totalFilesCount = $count + $totalCount;
echo 'Total Files Count ' . $totalFilesCount;

Answer 14

Here's a PHP Linux function that's considerably fast. A bit dirty, but it gets the job done!
$dir - path to directory
$type - f, d or false (by default)
f - returns only files count
d - returns only folders count
false - returns total files and folders count
function folderfiles($dir, $type=false) {
$f = escapeshellarg($dir);
if($type == 'f') {
$io = popen ( '/usr/bin/find ' . $f . ' -type f | wc -l', 'r' );
} elseif($type == 'd') {
$io = popen ( '/usr/bin/find ' . $f . ' -type d | wc -l', 'r' );
} else {
$io = popen ( '/usr/bin/find ' . $f . ' | wc -l', 'r' );
}
$size = fgets ( $io, 4096);
pclose ( $io );
return $size;
}
You can tweak to fit your needs.
Please note that this will not work on Windows.

Answer 15

simple code add for file .php then your folder which number of file to count its
$directory = "images/icons";
$files = scandir($directory);
for($i = 0 ; $i < count($files) ; $i++){
if($files[$i] !='.' && $files[$i] !='..')
{ echo $files[$i]; echo "<br>";
$file_new[] = $files[$i];
}
}
echo $num_files = count($file_new);
simple add its done ....