Count Files in an Directory?

[Lazlo71]

Hi all!

Is there a easy and cool way to count files in a
directory and it's subdirectorys?

I already have 'ls -R1 | wc -l' but i don't think thats
really it. Isn't there a much cooler way to get an int
value that counts the files?

+ It shouldn't be very process intensive,
cause the function is used on a website and
the amount of files is 7000 >= !!!!!!
So 'ls' isn't the best way, is it?!

bye and thanks for help

lazlo

 

[netcomander]

hi Lazlo71,

if looking into the php-documentation
(

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.dir.php)

you will find a couple of directory functions
like the followings

chroot -- change the root directory
chdir -- change directory
dir -- directory class
closedir -- close directory handle
getcwd -- gets the current working directory
opendir -- open directory handle
readdir -- read entry from directory handle
rewinddir -- rewind directory handle

and
(

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.filesystem.php)

shows up a couple of file-related functions which
might be usefull

hope this helps

greetings markus