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[Kylo]

Does anyone know if there's a function that counts how many files are in a directory and then returns the number. And if there is, does it work with internet directories as well?
EDIT:-
I'm guessng then there isn't one, right?

Edited by TcM, 24 April 2008 - 07:31 AM.

[sakishrist]

It's different for the local file system and different for the remote one (http or ftp). For ftp you "ask" the server to give you a list of files in a specific directory and then you count them. The reply you get from the server may be in xml format so you will have to make your own function to convert it and take the numbers of the files.

[Kylo]

OK, that didn't answer my question at all. I need to know what the function is.

[sakishrist]

This may help you a bit! Or This

[TkTech]

Neither SMTP or FTP will ever output XML......

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[Xav]

In PHP you can use the readdir() and opendir() functions. I only learnt that recently.

[sakishrist]

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Neither SMTP or FTP will ever output XML......

In one of my projects in the past it did ... but I think I was using a dll to connect so that must have been the reason.

[TkTech]

It WAS that reason. I've written clients for both FTP and SMTP/POP, absolutely no xml. XML didn't exist when they we're drafted.