Count all files in a folder using PHP

[3wlink]

Hello guys, i need to know how i can count all files in a folder. Of course, i need to count them along with their 'file types' -

like: .jpg - 12, .doc - 5, .txt - 2 etc.

Please let me know if any body can help me.

Thanks in advance

[al-zabir]

Hello friend,

Here is a tutorial about your question. Hope this will help you.
Go to

Small tutorial about reading contents of directory / folder with php

and please request for further tutorial in

http://www.iguides.org/forums/iguides-tutorials/

section

Thanks

Al - Zabir

[anjuman]

Hi al-zabir!
I have just read your tutorials. It's great! Thank you for your excellent tutorials.

[KarenBlack]

If you're running on a linux system you can just use the backtick operator to the "ls" system command and sort the data... here's a lowdown dirty example

$dir = `ls -p /path/to/dir | grep -v '/'`;

$num_files = count( $dir_contents = explode("\n", $dir) )-1;

echo "<b>Number of files :</b> $num_files <br /><br /><b>Filenames</b> <br />";

foreach ( $dir_contents as $filename ){
$file_ext = chop(substr( $filename, strrpos( $filename, "." ), strlen($filename)));
if ( $file_ext != '') {
$extensions[$file_ext] = ( $extensions[$file_ext] == 0) ? $extensions[$file_ext] = 1 : $extensions[$file_ext] = $extensions[$file_ext]+1;
echo "$filename<br />";
}

}

echo "<br /><b>Extension count :</b><br />";
foreach ( $extensions as $key => $value ){
echo "$key : $value <br />";
}

If you're running on windoze server, well, you're SOL.

[KarenBlack]

Otherwise al-zabir's tutorial is a cross platform compliant solution, however, if you're running linux, there's nothing faster than utilizinf system commands. Especially if you have a highly trafficed site where milliseconds of processing time add up. This goes back to old school Perl programming where utilizing pipes and system commands can really add speed and optimization than using PHP built-in functions.