Re: count files
| From: | Rob Curts | Date: | Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:13:13 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: count files | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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on 7/18/00 10:57 AM, Rob Curts at rob@siliconcarne.net wrote:
> on 7/18/00 11:43 AM, sarahana at sarahana@scournepal.com wrote:
>
>> I know that you can count the number of files in a directory through
>> ASP, but I was wondering if its possible through PHP too cause I
>> couldn't find such function in the manual. How do you do store all the
>> filenames of a dir in an array so that you can loop and see properties
>> and things like that?
>
> very simple
>
> <?
> $dh = opendir("/path/to/directory"); // or c:\path\to\directory on windows
> while ($f = readdir($dh))
> $Files[count($Files)] = $f;
> closedir($dh);
> ?>
>
> hope that helps
>
> Cheers,
> Rob
>
sorry... i didn't add one thing:
counting files is as easy as doing:
sizeof($Files);
once the while loop completes.
Rob