counting files..?

[fogged_reality]

can anyone shed some light on how i would go about counting the number of files in a dir?

i've tried using
$d = 0;
while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
$d++ ;
}
where do is the number of files in the directory.
This hasnt been working for me, so i thought i'd see if it's the statement itself that's wrong or just the context i'm using it in.

[brad_fears]

Perhaps something like this:

function count_files($dir) {

    $cnt=0;
    if ($use_dir = @opendir($dir)) {
            while (($file = readdir($use_dir)) !== false) {
                    $cnt++;
            }
            closedir($use_dir);
    }

    return $cnt;

}

[Rohan_Hill]

Instead of just $cnt++; use:

if ($file != "." && $file != "..") {
 $cnt++;
}

Or if you didn't want to count directories as files you could go
if (!is_dir ($file))