How do I count files in a folder but exclude index.php file from being counted as (PHP)

Question

I'm having issues on figuring this out. How do I exclude some files (eg: index.php) from the folder/ to be counted as. Any suggestions?

<?php 

    $dir = "folder/";
    $count = 0;
    $files = glob($dir . "*.{php}",GLOB_BRACE);
    if($files){$count = count($files);}
    echo'You have: '.$count.' files.';

?>

I would have to agree that it's a duplicate, if not it would still be easily applied to what he's wanting to do. — arleslie, Jun 19 '15 at 14:28

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 19 '15 at 14:33

You can do something like this:

$dir = "/folder";
$count = 0;
$files = glob($dir . "*.{php}",GLOB_BRACE);

for($i=0;$i<count($files);$i++){
    if(strpos($files[$i], "index.php")){
        unset($files[$i]);
    }
}

if($files){$count = count($files);}
echo'You have: '.$count.' files.';

strpos will Find the numeric position of the first occurrence of needle in the haystack string.

After getting this just unset that array index from files array.

This answer helped me a lot. Thank you so much – M50Scripts Jun 19 '15 at 14:43 — M50Scripts, Jun 19 '15 at 14:43

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 19 '15 at 14:35

I'm guessing you will need to list these files at some point as well, so this will build a new array of "approved" file names.

$dir = "";
$files = glob($dir . "*.{php}",GLOB_BRACE);
$realfiles = array();
$ignore = array('index.php','otherfile.pdf'); // List of ignored file names
foreach($files as $f) {
    if(!in_array($f, $ignore)) { // This file is not in our ignore list
        $realfiles[]=$f; // Add this file name to our realfiles array
    }
}
echo 'You have: '.count($realfiles).' files.';
print_r($realfiles);

Thanks for your helpful information's. This also helped me but the above answer was the one that helped me further :) thanks for your time though!-bless you — M50Scripts, Jun 19 '15 at 14:44

How do I count files in a folder but exclude index.php file from being counted as (PHP)

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