How can I get the total number of rows in a CSV file with PHP?

Question

How can I get the total number of rows that are in a CSV file using PHP? I'm using this method but can get it to work properly.

if (($fp = fopen("test.csv", "r")) !== FALSE) { 
  while (($record = fgetcsv($fp)) !== FALSE) {
      $row++;
  }

  echo $row;
}

Answer 1

Here's another option using file() to read the entire file into an array, automatically parsing new lines etc:

$fp = file('test.csv');
echo count($fp);

Also, since PHP5, you can pass in the FILE_SKIP_EMPTY_LINES... to skip empty lines, if you want to:

$fp = file('test.csv', FILE_SKIP_EMPTY_LINES);

Manual: http://php.net/manual/en/function.file.php