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

$filename=$_FILES['sel_file']['tmp_name'];
$file=fopen($filename,"r");
$RowCount=0;

while ((fgetcsv($file)) !== FALSE) 
{
    $RowCount++;
}

echo $RowCount;
fclose($file);

Answer 2

CSV rows are separated by line breaks. Therefore, split the rows by line breaks, and you will get an array of rows, which is countable.

if (($fp = fopen("test.csv", "r")) !== FALSE) { 
    $rows = explode("\n", $fp);
    $length = count($rows);

    echo $length;
}

Answer 3

count(file('filename.csv', FILE_SKIP_EMPTY_LINES));

Answer 4

Here's another option using file() to read the entire file into an array, automatically parsing new lines etc:

$fp = file('test.csv');
echo count($fp);

Also, since PHP5, you can pass in the FILE_SKIP_EMPTY_LINES... to skip empty lines, if you want to:

$fp = file('test.csv', FILE_SKIP_EMPTY_LINES);

Manual: http://php.net/manual/en/function.file.php

Answer 5

I know this is an old post, but I've been googling this issue, and found that the only problem with the original code was that you need to define $row outside the while loop, like this:

if (($fp = fopen("test.csv", "r")) !== FALSE) { 
$row = 1;
  while (($record = fgetcsv($fp)) !== FALSE) {
      $row++;
  }

Just in case it helps someone :) echo $row; }

Answer 6

Create a new file reference using SplFileObject:

$file = new SplFileObject('test.csv', 'r');

Try to seek to the highest Int PHP can handle:

$file->seek(PHP_INT_MAX);

Then actually it will seek to the highest line it could in the file, there is your last line and the last line + 1 is equals to your total lines:

echo $file->key() + 1;

Tricky, but this will avoid you from loading the file contents into memory, which is a very cool thing to do when dealing with really large files.