How can I get the total number of rows in a CSV file with PHP?

Question

How can I get the total number of rows that are in a CSV file using PHP? I\'m using this method but can get it to work properly.

if (($fp = fopen(\"test.csv\         


        

Answer 1

I know that this is pretty old, but actually I ran into the same question. As a solution I would assume to use linux specific logic:

$rows = shell_exec('$(/bin/which cat) file.csv | $(/bin/which tr) "\r" "\n" | $(which wc) -l');

NOTE: this only works for linux only and this only should be used if you are 100% certain that your file has no multiline-cells