Count how many files in directory PHP

Question

You can simply do the following :

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

You can get the filecount like so:

$directory = "/path/to/dir/";
$filecount = 0;
$files = glob($directory . "*");
if ($files){
 $filecount = count($files);
}
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'

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);

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>

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

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)

Working Demo

<?php

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

?>