Count how many files in directory PHP

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/";
$filecount = count(glob($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.

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