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Extremely simple PHP sample to count and return the number of lines in a text file. The output can be customised to suit your own requirements. It even seems to handle line endings nicely.
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file-line-count.php
<?php
# As seen at http://www.totallyphp.co.uk/count-the-number-of-lines-in-a-text-file
$file = 'somefile.txt';
$lines = count( file( $file ) );
printf( 'There are %d line(s) in %s', $lines, $file );
?>
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