How to measure # of lines of code in project?

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How can I measure number of lines of code in my PHP web development projects?

Edit: I'm interested in windows tools only

score 26 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 13 '09 at 04:09

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Check CLOC, it's a source code line counter that supports many languages, I always recommend it.

It will differentiate between actual lines of code, blank lines or comments, it's very good.

In addition there are more code counters that you can check:

answered Jan 13 '09 at 04:09

Christian C. Salvadó

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All of these are linux tools, do you have any windows ones? – Ali Jan 13 '09 at 04:17
Hey, check the download link of CLOC, http://downloads.sourceforge.net/cloc/cloc-1.06.exe?modtime=1223154209&big_mirror=0 – Christian C. Salvadó Jan 13 '09 at 04:18
I did download it but i got a blank DOS screen and then it disappeared? – Ali Jan 13 '09 at 04:20
It's a console app!, you have to run it from the command line, i.e. cloc-1.06.exe C:\myProject\folder – Christian C. Salvadó Jan 13 '09 at 04:21
Thanks, i tried it but there's something wrong, it said there were only 3 PHP files in my project? that's impossible. Other than that it seems very useful :) – Ali Jan 13 '09 at 04:58

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered May 09 '12 at 07:42

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phploc

No experience if it runs on Windows, tho, but searching on the web showed some results of people getting it to work on Windows..

answered May 09 '12 at 07:42

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score 1 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:27

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If you are on a linux box, the easiest way is probably directed by this SO question:

count (non-blank) lines-of-code in bash

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answered Jan 13 '09 at 04:10

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 25 '23 at 15:24

If you are using VS code, install this extension called Lines of Code (LOC)

After installation, use ctrl+p, type linecount, and you will find below options.

Count Workspace files will give the output in the following format.

This works on any OS with VS Code with the above plugin installed.

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Feb 06 '23 at 09:14

npm install -g cloc
Go to the project folder
Delete the node_modules and dist folder (if you have any), Because you don't need to calculate loc in dist and node_modules
inside the project folder
run this command: cloc *

Output will look like this :

Ira Baxter · Answer 6 · 2011-04-30T14:33:53.100

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Our SD Source Code Search Engine is a GUI for searching across large bodies of source code such as a PHP web site. It is fast because it preindexes the source code.

As a side effect of the indexing process, it also computes metrics on the source code base, including SLOC, Comments, blank lines, Cyclomatic and Halsted complexity numbers.

And it runs on Windows.

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answered Aug 24 '09 at 22:02

Ira Baxter

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Downvoter: what's the objection? It not only counts *code* lines accuratly but also provides additional metrics data. – Ira Baxter Apr 30 '11 at 14:33

score -3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 13 '09 at 04:09

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If you're using a full fledged IDE the quick and dirty way is to count the number of "\n" patterns using the search feature (assuming it supports regexes)

answered Jan 13 '09 at 04:09

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Lines of code is *not* the same as number of lines in the file. Especially for PHP, which often has code interspersed with markup. – Brandon Rhodes Sep 10 '09 at 00:37
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Which is why I was so surprised. :) – Allain Lalonde Sep 10 '09 at 22:15

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