count lines in a PHP project

Question

Hi there

I'm just curious. Do you know any tool which can count all the code lines from a PHP project?

Many thx!

Answer 1

On a POSIX operating system (e.g. Linux or OS X) you can write the following into your Bash shell:

wc -l `find . -iname "*.php"`

This will count the lines in all php-files in the current directory and also subdirectories. (Note that those single 'quotes' are backticks, not actual single quotes)

Answer 2

SLOCCount is an awesome tool that produces a line-count report for a large number of languages. It also goes further by producing other, related statistics such as expected developer cost.

Here's an example:

$ sloccount .
Creating filelist for experimental
Creating filelist for prototype
Categorizing files.
Finding a working MD5 command....
Found a working MD5 command.
Computing results.


SLOC    Directory SLOC-by-Language (Sorted)
10965   experimental    cpp=5116,ansic=4976,python=873
832     prototype       cpp=518,tcl=314


Totals grouped by language (dominant language first):
cpp:           5634 (47.76%)
ansic:         4976 (42.18%)
python:         873 (7.40%)
tcl:            314 (2.66%)




Total Physical Source Lines of Code (SLOC)                = 11,797
Development Effort Estimate, Person-Years (Person-Months) = 2.67 (32.03)
 (Basic COCOMO model, Person-Months = 2.4 * (KSLOC**1.05))
Schedule Estimate, Years (Months)                         = 0.78 (9.33)
 (Basic COCOMO model, Months = 2.5 * (person-months**0.38))
Estimated Average Number of Developers (Effort/Schedule)  = 3.43
Total Estimated Cost to Develop                           = $ 360,580
 (average salary = $56,286/year, overhead = 2.40).
SLOCCount, Copyright (C) 2001-2004 David A. Wheeler
SLOCCount is Open Source Software/Free Software, licensed under the GNU GPL.
SLOCCount comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, and you are welcome to
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see the documentation for details.
Please credit this data as "generated using David A. Wheeler's 'SLOCCount'."