Question

this count is onyl returning 1, when there are thousands of records in this folder.

// TV Shows
$dir = 'G:/TV';
if ($handle = opendir($dir)) {

    /* This is the correct way to loop over the directory. */
    while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {

        $check = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM tv_shows WHERE title = '$file'");
        $checkcount = mysql_num_rows($check);

        if ($checkcount == 0) {

            mysql_query("INSERT INTO tv_shows (id, title) VALUES ('', '$file')");

        }

    }

    echo count($dir)." Records Traversed!<br/>";

    closedir($handle);
}

Table Structure: id, title

Folder Structure: Sub folders in the main one

 G:\TV
 G:\TV\24
 G:\TV\Family Guy

Answer 1

You can’t use count() on a folder. Try this one instead

// TV Shows
$dir = 'G:/TV';
$count = 0;
if ($handle = opendir($dir)) {

    /* This is the correct way to loop over the directory. */
    while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
        $count++;
        $check = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM tv_shows WHERE title = '$file'");
        $checkcount = mysql_num_rows($check);

        if ($checkcount == 0) {

            mysql_query("INSERT INTO tv_shows (id, title) VALUES ('', '$file')");

        }

    }

    echo $count." Records Traversed!<br/>";

    closedir($handle);
}

how about returning the number of new records inserted?

Check this out, just moved $count++

// TV Shows
$dir = 'G:/TV';
$count = 0;
if ($handle = opendir($dir)) {

    /* This is the correct way to loop over the directory. */
    while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
        $check = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM tv_shows WHERE title = '$file'");
        $checkcount = mysql_num_rows($check);

        if ($checkcount == 0) {
            $count++;
            mysql_query("INSERT INTO tv_shows (id, title) VALUES ('', '$file')");

        }

    }

    echo $count." Records Traversed!<br/>";

    closedir($handle);
}