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

I use this to return a count of ALL files in a directory except . and ..

return count(glob("/path/to/file/[!\.]*"));

Here is a good list of glob filters for file matching purposes.