How can i count the number of files in a directory in php?

I'm working on a slightly new project. I wanted to know how many files are in a certain directory.

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.

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Penny Liu

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asked Oct 9, 2012 at 13:38

Bradly SpicerBradly Spicer

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You can simply do the following :

$fi = new FilesystemIterator(__DIR__, FilesystemIterator::SKIP_DOTS);
printf("There were %d Files", iterator_count($fi));

answered Oct 9, 2012 at 14:01

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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.

answered Oct 9, 2012 at 13:44

JKirchartzJKirchartz

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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;

answered Oct 9, 2012 at 13:41

intelisintelis

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You should have :

answered Oct 9, 2012 at 13:42

Laurent BrieuLaurent Brieu

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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

answered Feb 18, 2019 at 2:59

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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:

Test run: (obviously, glob() doesn't count dot-files)

1: 99 (0.4815571308136 s)
2: 98 (0.96104407310486 s)
3: 99 (0.26513481140137 s)

answered Oct 22, 2013 at 9:29

vbwxvbwx

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Working Demo

answered Oct 9, 2012 at 13:46

Nirav RanparaNirav Ranpara

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I use this:

count(glob("yourdir/*",GLOB_BRACE))

answered Mar 7, 2014 at 5:45

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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 '..').

answered Apr 9, 2016 at 21:52

SpookySpooky

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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)
    )
)

answered Jan 3, 2019 at 19:31

PanniPanni

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$it = new filesystemiterator(dirname("Enter directory here"));
printf("There were %d Files", iterator_count($it));
echo("
");
    foreach ($it as $fileinfo) {
        echo $fileinfo->getFilename() . "
\n";
    } 

This should work enter the directory in dirname. and let the magic happen.

answered Nov 16, 2015 at 10:32

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.

answered Aug 17, 2017 at 8:59

$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;

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;
}

  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 "
";
            $file_new[] = $files[$i];
        }
    }
    echo $num_files = count($file_new);