PHP help required :(

[mikka23]

I am looking for some help on msn or a link to a tutorial or pre built script which i could implement. What I am aiming to do is this. On my website
www.webmaster-files.com/index.php I am looking to have a php script so at the bottom right area where the site stats are shown php automatically detects how many of each type of file are shown on the site and displays that number in the table cell. Any help is much appreciated.

Michael Clarke
mikkaclarke@hotmail.com

[Sagaris]

Some more information will help to find a solution. Where are the actual pages / files stored that you want to count? Are they in individual directories for categories (photoshop tuts) or subcategories (photoshop custom shapes) or do they have a naming convention that distinguishes between categories with all the pages in one directory, or are they all kept in a database etc.

[Compumaniac12]

automatically detecting is hard to do with files, If each file includes a database entry or a form that uploads the file then its easy to do. I added you on msn, and ill be glad to help you.

[mikka23]

At the moment they are all in thumbnails directory. I am going to use the images rather than actual download file. They are named according to their type eg template1.bmp. patterns1.bmp etc

[Rob]

This should be easy possible by looping through a directory object to retrieve the file properties of each file.

Not knowing an awful lot of PHP I'll ask that someone else continue with this.

[mikka23]

I managed to get this following script to work. The only problem is when it is on my index.php it adds on the previous php scripts number. You can see the example on www.webmaster-files.com at the bottom right it is cumulative and adds the previous ones result to its. I am using the script

Code: Select all

<?
include("filecount6.php");
?>

PHP: Select all

<?php  
$directory = opendir("Thumbnails/photoshop/");  
while($item = readdir($directory)){  
if(($item != ".") && ($item != "..")){  
$files[] = $item;  
echo;  
}  
} 
$sizeofarray = count($files); 
echo $sizeofarray; 
?>

I have each directory separate and the files within those directories counted. When I go to the filecount.php file the number it displays is correct therefore it must be somethine to do with them all being on the index file after each other. I am new to php so any help is greatly appreciated.

[grahame]

if you add
unset($files);
before the final
?>
that should do it.

[mikka23]

Thankyou that worked perfectly.