Ohcount and Count Lines of Code (CLOC) counts size of code project. Mostly these aren’t very useful applications, but it is fun to see that I have written 300 lines of code in couple of days.

Ohcount is used Ohloh to generate source code reports. I was disappointed to found that i can’t use Ohcount to scan whole history of my repository, it only scans current status of code.

CLOC is written in Perl and Ohcount in Ruby. It maybe little annoying to compile Ohcount from source, but it is much faster than CLOC. If you want something that is easy to install, take CLOC. But if you are going to analysis more often than once, try Ohcount.

Here is example output from CLOC:


96 text files.
83 unique files.
33 files ignored.
http://cloc.sourceforge.net v 1.08 T=7.0 s (8.9 files/s, 547.4 lines/s)
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Language files blank comment code scale 3rd gen. equiv
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PHP      49    588   172     1950 x 3.50    = 6825.00
SQL      1     58    87      277  x 2.29     = 634.33
BASH     10    54    133     261  x 3.81     = 994.41
CSS      1     46    5       192  x 1.00     = 192.00
Python   1     2     1       6    x 4.20       = 25.20
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SUM: 62 748 398 2686 x 3.23 = 8670.94
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

And here is Ohcounts output from same file:

Examining 555 file(s)......

Ohloh Line Count Summary

Language Files Code Comment Comment % Blank Total
---------------- ----- --------- --------- --------- --------- ---------
php      58    2146 219     9.3%      716  3081
sql      1     277  87      23.9%     58   422
html     60    242  1       0.4%      38   281
css      1     192  5       2.5%      46   243
python   1     6    1       14.3%     2    9
---------------- ----- --------- --------- --------- --------- ---------
Total 121      2863 313     9.9%      860  4036

- Gestalts -------------------------------------------------------------------
Platforms: PHP, SQL, Scripting

Yep. There is some difference on results. I don’t know which one is more accurate.

I haven’t posted for a while because I have coded my main project. It isn’t public, but I will blog about it when it is ready. I try to blog more often.

Why I created yet another pastebin?

Because I can. It was mainly a test/tutorial for myself, but because it becomes usable product I decided to put it online. It won’t hurt anyone.

Features

• Clean, simple user interface
• Fast and reliable
• Pastes are permanent, they won’t be deleted
• Custom urls (up to 22 characters)
• View counter for pastes

How I created it

I developed this application using kubuntu(kde 3.5)/konsole/vim/apache/mysql/php. Code is very small, portable, lightweight. Here is output of cloc.pl script.
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Language files blank comment code scale  3rd gen. equiv
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PHP      3     57    33      202  x3.50 =         707.00
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I am also thinking about releasing this project under GPL.

Planed to newer release

I really haven’t thought about next version, but if I ever create it, I will include next features to it.

• url rewrites with .htaccess
• syntax hilight with geshi
• javascript/ajax effects

Url of this pastebin is http://paste.pelikoira.net , feel free to use it.