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counting files in directories
Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 6:35 pm
by Luke
I know I can just read all the files in the directory with readdir() but is there a more effective way to do this if i just wish to know how many files are inside of a directory?
Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 7:03 pm
by feyd
my favorite, but slightly complicated for some
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$num = count(array_filter(glob('/some/path/*'),'is_file')));
Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 8:21 pm
by defect
not sure about effectiveness but i like this way:
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$num = shell_exec("ls /path/to/dir|wc -l");
Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 9:41 pm
by Ambush Commander
Using shell commands is highly unrecommended. Feyd's method is quite quick. If you really wanted things to work out nice, you'd define global_countFilesInDir($directory) function and implement it there, so that you could change it if something better came along.
Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 10:10 am
by Luke
I've never even used the shell_exec function. That is very interesting... I will look into that (not for this, but just because it's interesting).
Thanks feyd... that worked very nicely.