Return total number of files within a folder using PHP

Question

Is there a better/simpler way to find the number of images in a directory and output them to a variable?

function dirCount($dir) {
  $x = 0;
  while (($file          


        

Answer 1

The aforementioned code

$count = count(glob("*.{jpg,png,gif,bmp}"));

is your best best, but the {jpg,png,gif} bit will only work if you append the GLOB_BRACE flag on the end:

$count = count(glob("*.{jpg,png,gif,bmp}", GLOB_BRACE));