Code metrics of php - Notepad++

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In particular, I am interested to know how many lines of codes there are, but this spans across many files.

I have been using notepad++ to author the code and for each file it does display line numbers but of course I have empty returns to make the code more readable.

Does anyone know of a plugin or tool that I can accurately get the actual lines of code?

Using PHP Designer or Dreaweaver would be a better alternative.... — Prasoon Saurav, Jun 24 '10 at 11:51
You might take a look at this previous answer http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1300420/good-php-metric-tools though counting the number of lines of code isn't really a significant measure of anything — Mark Baker, Jun 24 '10 at 12:24
@Jens: The OP clearly thought his line count spanned multiple files. The only thing I can imagine he might want to do that is to count the apparant size of a PHP script including the code participating via the transitive closure of a require (aka "include") clause, then it has to be PHP specific. That's sort of a measure of how hard it is to comprehend a script, because requires clauses are typically used to import what amounts to APIs and their implementation. Harry, please comment? — Ira Baxter, Jul 12 '10 at 02:07

bwb · Answer 1 · 2013-06-22T20:01:54.717

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Go to Search -> Find in Files... or use Ctrl+Shift+F
Find what: \S+\s*\r\n

Filters: *.php

Search Mode Regular expression

Click Find All
See the 'Find result' in the lower pane

It's not perfect at all, but it works out of the box. Of course you can also make changes to the regular expression, like only counting lines with:

White space only: ^\s*\r\n
At least one letter or number: \w+.*\r\n
Which are used solely for curly braces: ^(\s*[{}]\s*)+\r\n
A class keyword: class .*\r\n
A function keyword: function .*\r\n

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answered Jun 22 '13 at 19:19

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[@quamrana](http://stackoverflow.com/users/4834/quamrana) thanks for embedding the images. – bwb Jun 22 '13 at 20:03

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 24 '10 at 12:45

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Google for "php sloc counter". There are plenty of tools to do that, for example:

http://thecodecentral.com/2007/12/26/source-line-of-code-counter

However, this kind of measuring is absolutely useless, so I'm not sure why you would want to do this.

answered Jun 24 '10 at 12:45

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silent · Answer 3 · 2010-06-24T13:14:16.683

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Linux:

find -name '*.php' | xargs grep -av '\r' | wc -l

Windows (PowerShell):

(dir -include *.php -recurse | select-string "(?!^$)").count

edited Jun 24 '10 at 13:14

answered Jun 24 '10 at 12:47

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1) He mentioned Notepad++ so he's on windows. 2) This would count all lines, not sloc, which is what he wants. – houbysoft Jun 24 '10 at 12:51
and empty lines is not in counted now – silent Jun 24 '10 at 13:14

Code metrics of php - Notepad++

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