File Counter

This part has got me confused

Do you want to only count a certain file type in a directory or all files in that directory and then display Currently Shuffling 12 Songs! or whatever the count is?

I'll see what I can do.

Give this a try.

<?php
$total_mp3_file=count(glob("*.mp3"));
echo "Currently Shuffling ".$total_mp3_file "Songs";
?>
The above example will take from the current directory. To search a specific directory you can use the following. (changes the first line)
To list number of mp3 on a particular directory you can use something like this.
<?php
$total_mp3 = count(glob("/path/to/mp3/{*.mp3}", GLOB_BRACE));
?>

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to simply get a count of files in a given directory

<?php
//get path of directory containing this script
$dir = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].dirname($PHP_SELF);
//open a handle to the directory
$handle = opendir($dir);
//intitialize counter
$count = 0;
//loop through the directory
while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
//evaluate each entry, removing the . & .. entries
if (is_file($file) && $file !== '.' && $file !== '..') {
$count++;
}
}
echo $count;
?>
or if you prefer, assign the $file variable to an array in the loop:
if...{
$files[$count] = $file;
$count++;
}
then you can return either $count or count($files) to get your number of files.

let me see your code.

Forgot - This error is encountered when running on PHP 4.x and on a shared hosting. Update to PHP ver 5.x and try again.

Is that your girlfriend??? or is she just WOWing us.
Parse error: could be the line it is showing or it could be a line somewhere else. Hard for me to guess at, easier with the code, to look at to solve problem. Promise I won't give it away.
yes you are right shared server is not a problem.