Counting lines..

[sgray]

$file = "song.txt";

if (file_exists($file)) {
 $lines = explode("\n", $file);
 $howmany = count($lines);
 print "$howmany";

why does this only ever print "1"? There are plenty of lines in the song.txt file. I have an idea "\n" might be wrong. Help appreciated 🙂

[spider0176]

This should work fine:

<?
$file = "song.txt";

if (file_exists($file)) { 

$filedata = fopen($file,"r");

while (!feof ($filedata)){
	$buffer = fgets($filedata, 4096);
	print $buffer."<br>";
	$howmany++;
}

//$lines = explode("\n", $buffer);
//$howmany = count($lines); 

print "<br>";
print "There're <b>".$howmany."</b> song(s) in your file.";
fclose($filedata);
}
?>

Abraham
Dushanbe

[drawmack]

or just use http://www.php.net/file to read it into an array and then you can do this

<?
$fName = 'song.txt';
if(file_exists($fName)) {$lines = count(file($fName));}
echo $lines;
?>