count number of entries in a directory ?

[Bill Brother]

is it possible to obtain the number of entries in a directory without
enumerate it with opendir() function ?

[Michael Fesser]

Re: count number of entries in a directory ?

.oO(Bill Brother)
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>is it possible to obtain the number of entries in a directory without
>enumerate it with opendir() function ?[/color]

If PHP runs on a Linux box you can use a shell command:

$dir = '/path/to/whatever';
$count = `ls $dir | wc -l`;

It might be necessary to adjust the parameters for the ls command.

HTH
Micha

[Andy Hassall]

Re: count number of entries in a directory ?

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 10:43:12 +0200, "Bill Brother" <bigbrother@ina me.com>
wrote:
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>is it possible to obtain the number of entries in a directory without
>enumerate it with opendir() function ?[/color]

Why don't you want to use opendir()?

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[Chung Leong]

Re: count number of entries in a directory ?


"Bill Brother" <bigbrother@ina me.com> wrote in message
news:cghjf1$92r $1@news-reader5.wanadoo .fr...[color=blue]
> is it possible to obtain the number of entries in a directory without
> enumerate it with opendir() function ?
>
>[/color]

count(glob($dir )) ?