Format bytes to kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes

Question

Scenario: the size of various files are stored in a database as bytes. What's the best way to format this size info to kilobytes, megabytes and gigabytes? For instance I have an MP3 that Ubuntu displays as "5.2 MB (5445632 bytes)". How would I display this on a web page as "5.2 MB" AND have files less than one megabyte display as KB and files one gigabyte and above display as GB?

Answer 1

function formatBytes($bytes, $precision = 2) { 
    $units = array('B', 'KB', 'MB', 'GB', 'TB'); 

    $bytes = max($bytes, 0); 
    $pow = floor(($bytes ? log($bytes) : 0) / log(1024)); 
    $pow = min($pow, count($units) - 1); 

    // Uncomment one of the following alternatives
    // $bytes /= pow(1024, $pow);
    // $bytes /= (1 << (10 * $pow)); 

    return round($bytes, $precision) . ' ' . $units[$pow]; 
} 

(Taken from php.net, there are many other examples there, but I like this one best :-)

Answer 2

This is Chris Jester-Young's implementation, cleanest I've ever seen, combined with php.net's and a precision argument.

function formatBytes($size, $precision = 2)
{
    $base = log($size, 1024);
    $suffixes = array('', 'K', 'M', 'G', 'T');   

    return round(pow(1024, $base - floor($base)), $precision) .' '. $suffixes[floor($base)];
}

echo formatBytes(24962496);
// 23.81M

echo formatBytes(24962496, 0);
// 24M

echo formatBytes(24962496, 4);
// 23.8061M

Answer 3

Pseudocode:

$base = log($size) / log(1024);
$suffix = array("", "k", "M", "G", "T")[floor($base)];
return pow(1024, $base - floor($base)) . $suffix;

Answer 4

Just divide it by 1024 for kb, 1024^2 for mb and 1024^3 for GB. As simple as that.

Answer 5

This is Kohana's implementation, you could use it:

public static function bytes($bytes, $force_unit = NULL, $format = NULL, $si = TRUE)
{
    // Format string
    $format = ($format === NULL) ? '%01.2f %s' : (string) $format;

    // IEC prefixes (binary)
    if ($si == FALSE OR strpos($force_unit, 'i') !== FALSE)
    {
        $units = array('B', 'KiB', 'MiB', 'GiB', 'TiB', 'PiB');
        $mod   = 1024;
    }
    // SI prefixes (decimal)
    else
    {
        $units = array('B', 'kB', 'MB', 'GB', 'TB', 'PB');
        $mod   = 1000;
    }

    // Determine unit to use
    if (($power = array_search((string) $force_unit, $units)) === FALSE)
    {
        $power = ($bytes > 0) ? floor(log($bytes, $mod)) : 0;
    }

    return sprintf($format, $bytes / pow($mod, $power), $units[$power]);
}

Answer 6

use this function if you want a short code

bcdiv()

$size = 11485760;
echo bcdiv($size, 1048576, 0); // return: 10

echo bcdiv($size, 1048576, 2); // return: 10,9

echo bcdiv($size, 1048576, 2); // return: 10,95

echo bcdiv($size, 1048576, 3); // return: 10,953

Answer 7

Just my alternative, short and clean:

/**
 * @param int $bytes Number of bytes (eg. 25907)
 * @param int $precision [optional] Number of digits after the decimal point (eg. 1)
 * @return string Value converted with unit (eg. 25.3KB)
 */
function formatBytes($bytes, $precision = 2) {
    $unit = ["B", "KB", "MB", "GB"];
    $exp = floor(log($bytes, 1024)) | 0;
    return round($bytes / (pow(1024, $exp)), $precision).$unit[$exp];
}

or, more stupid and efficent:

function formatBytes($bytes, $precision = 2) {
    if ($bytes > pow(1024,3)) return round($bytes / pow(1024,3), $precision)."GB";
    else if ($bytes > pow(1024,2)) return round($bytes / pow(1024,2), $precision)."MB";
    else if ($bytes > 1024) return round($bytes / 1024, $precision)."KB";
    else return ($bytes)."B";
}

Answer 8

I know it's maybe a little late to answer this question but, more data is not going to kill someone. Here's a very fast function :

function format_filesize($B, $D=2){
    $S = 'BkMGTPEZY';
    $F = floor((strlen($B) - 1) / 3);
    return sprintf("%.{$D}f", $B/pow(1024, $F)).' '.@$S[$F].'B';
}

EDIT: I updated my post to include the fix proposed by camomileCase:

function format_filesize($B, $D=2){
    $S = 'kMGTPEZY';
    $F = floor((strlen($B) - 1) / 3);
    return sprintf("%.{$D}f", $B/pow(1024, $F)).' '.@$S[$F-1].'B';
}

Answer 9

Simple function

function formatBytes($size, $precision = 0){
    $unit = ['Byte','KiB','MiB','GiB','TiB','PiB','EiB','ZiB','YiB'];

    for($i = 0; $size >= 1024 && $i < count($unit)-1; $i++){
        $size /= 1024;
    }

    return round($size, $precision).' '.$unit[$i];
}

echo formatBytes('1876144', 2);
//returns 1.79 MiB

Answer 10

Flexible solution:

function size($size, array $options=null) {

    $o = [
        'binary' => false,
        'decimalPlaces' => 2,
        'decimalSeparator' => '.',
        'thausandsSeparator' => '',
        'maxThreshold' => false, // or thresholds key
        'suffix' => [
            'thresholds' => ['', 'K', 'M', 'G', 'T', 'P', 'E', 'Z', 'Y'],
            'decimal' => ' {threshold}B',
            'binary' => ' {threshold}iB',
            'bytes' => ' B'
        ]
    ];

    if ($options !== null)
        $o = array_replace_recursive($o, $options);

    $base = $o['binary'] ? 1024 : 1000;
    $exp = $size ? floor(log($size) / log($base)) : 0;

    if (($o['maxThreshold'] !== false) &&
        ($o['maxThreshold'] < $exp)
    )
        $exp = $o['maxThreshold'];

    return !$exp
        ? (round($size) . $o['suffix']['bytes'])
        : (
            number_format(
                $size / pow($base, $exp),
                $o['decimalPlaces'],
                $o['decimalSeparator'],
                $o['thausandsSeparator']
            ) .
            str_replace(
                '{threshold}',
                $o['suffix']['thresholds'][$exp],
                $o['suffix'][$o['binary'] ? 'binary' : 'decimal']
            )
        );
}

var_dump(size(disk_free_space('/')));
// string(8) "14.63 GB"
var_dump(size(disk_free_space('/'), ['binary' => true]));
// string(9) "13.63 GiB"
var_dump(size(disk_free_space('/'), ['maxThreshold' => 2]));
// string(11) "14631.90 MB"
var_dump(size(disk_free_space('/'), ['binary' => true, 'maxThreshold' => 2]));
// string(12) "13954.07 MiB"

Answer 11

I succeeded with following function,

    function format_size($size) {
        $mod = 1024;
        $units = explode(' ','B KB MB GB TB PB');
        for ($i = 0; $size > $mod; $i++) {
            $size /= $mod;
        }
        return round($size, 2) . ' ' . $units[$i];
    }

Answer 12

My approach

    function file_format_size($bytes, $decimals = 2) {
  $unit_list = array('B', 'KB', 'MB', 'GB', 'PB');

  if ($bytes == 0) {
    return $bytes . ' ' . $unit_list[0];
  }

  $unit_count = count($unit_list);
  for ($i = $unit_count - 1; $i >= 0; $i--) {
    $power = $i * 10;
    if (($bytes >> $power) >= 1)
      return round($bytes / (1 << $power), $decimals) . ' ' . $unit_list[$i];
  }
}

Answer 13

function changeType($size, $type, $end){
    $arr = ['B', 'KB', 'MB', 'GB', 'TB'];
    $tSayi = array_search($type, $arr);
    $eSayi = array_search($end, $arr);
    $pow = $eSayi - $tSayi;
    return $size * pow(1024 * $pow) . ' ' . $end;
}

echo changeType(500, 'B', 'KB');

Answer 14

I don't know why you should make it so complicated as the others.

The following code is much simpler to understand and about 25% faster than the other solutions who uses the log function (called the function 20 Mio. times with different parameters)

function formatBytes($bytes, $precision = 2) {
    $units = ['Byte', 'Kilobyte', 'Megabyte', 'Gigabyte', 'Terabyte'];
    $i = 0;

    while($bytes > 1024) {
        $bytes /= 1024;
        $i++;
    }
    return round($bytes, $precision) . ' ' . $units[$i];
}

Answer 15

I did this converting all input to byte and so converting to any output needed. Also, I used a auxiliar function to get base 1000 or 1024, but left it flex to decide use 1024 on popular type (without 'i', like MB instead of MiB).

    public function converte_binario($size=0,$format_in='B',$format_out='MB',$force_in_1024=false,$force_out_1024=false,$precisao=5,$return_format=true,$decimal=',',$centena=''){
    $out = false;

    if( (is_numeric($size)) && ($size>0)){
        $in_data = $this->converte_binario_aux($format_in,$force_in_1024);
        $out_data = $this->converte_binario_aux($format_out,$force_out_1024);

        // se formato de entrada e saída foram encontrados
        if( ((isset($in_data['sucesso'])) && ($in_data['sucesso']==true)) && ((isset($out_data['sucesso'])) && ($out_data['sucesso']==true))){
            // converte formato de entrada para bytes.
            $size_bytes_in = $size * (pow($in_data['base'], $in_data['pot']));
            $size_byte_out = (pow($out_data['base'], $out_data['pot']));
            // transforma bytes na unidade de destino
            $out = number_format($size_bytes_in / $size_byte_out,$precisao,$decimal,$centena);
            if($return_format){
                $out .= $format_out;
            }
        }
    }
    return $out;
}

public function converte_binario_aux($format=false,$force_1024=false){
    $out = [];
    $out['sucesso'] = false;
    $out['base'] = 0;
    $out['pot'] = 0;
    if((is_string($format) && (strlen($format)>0))){
        $format = trim(strtolower($format));
        $units_1000 = ['b','kb' ,'mb' ,'gb' ,'tb' ,'pb' ,'eb' ,'zb' ,'yb' ];
        $units_1024 = ['b','kib','mib','gib','tib','pib','eib','zib','yib'];
        $pot = array_search($format,$units_1000);
        if( (is_numeric($pot)) && ($pot>=0)){
            $out['pot'] = $pot;
            $out['base'] = 1000;
            $out['sucesso'] = true;
        }
        else{
            $pot = array_search($format,$units_1024);
            if( (is_numeric($pot)) && ($pot>=0)){
                $out['pot'] = $pot;
                $out['base'] = 1024;
                $out['sucesso'] = true;
            }
        }
        if($force_1024){
            $out['base'] = 1024;
        }
    }
    return $out;
}

Answer 16

Here is an option using log10:

<?php

function format_number(float $d): string {
   $e = (int)(log10($d) / 3);
   return sprintf('%.3f', $d / 1e3 ** $e) . ['', ' k', ' M', ' G'][$e];
}

$s = format_number(9012345678);
var_dump($s == '9.012 G');

https://php.net/function.log10

Answer 17

try this ;)

function bytesToSize($bytes) {
                $sizes = ['Bytes', 'KB', 'MB', 'GB', 'TB'];
                if ($bytes == 0) return 'n/a';
                $i = intval(floor(log($bytes) / log(1024)));
                if ($i == 0) return $bytes . ' ' . $sizes[$i]; 
                return round(($bytes / pow(1024, $i)),1,PHP_ROUND_HALF_UP). ' ' . $sizes[$i];
            }
echo bytesToSize(10000050300);

Answer 18

function convertToReadableSize($size)
{
  $base = log($size) / log(1024);
  $suffix = array("B", "KB", "MB", "GB", "TB");
  $f_base = floor($base);
  return round(pow(1024, $base - floor($base)), 1) . $suffix[$f_base];
}

Just call the function

echo convertToReadableSize(1024); // Outputs '1KB'
echo convertToReadableSize(1024 * 1024); // Outputs '1MB'

Answer 19

Albeit a bit stale, this library offers a tested and robust conversion API:

https://github.com/gabrielelana/byte-units

Once installed:

\ByteUnits\Binary::bytes(1024)->format();

// Output: "1.00KiB"

And to convert in the other direction:

\ByteUnits\Binary::parse('1KiB')->numberOfBytes();

// Output: "1024"

Beyond basic conversion, it offers methods for addition, subtraction, comparison, etc.

I am no way affiliated with this library.

Answer 20

function byte_format($size) {
    $bytes = array( ' KB', ' MB', ' GB', ' TB' );
    foreach ($bytes as $val) {
        if (1024 <= $size) {
            $size = $size / 1024;
            continue;
        }
        break;
    }
    return round( $size, 1 ) . $val;
}

Answer 21

Here is simplified implementation of the Drupal format_size function:

/**
 * Generates a string representation for the given byte count.
 *
 * @param $size
 *   A size in bytes.
 *
 * @return
 *   A string representation of the size.
 */
function format_size($size) {
  if ($size < 1024) {
    return $size . ' B';
  }
  else {
    $size = $size / 1024;
    $units = ['KB', 'MB', 'GB', 'TB'];
    foreach ($units as $unit) {
      if (round($size, 2) >= 1024) {
        $size = $size / 1024;
      }
      else {
        break;
      }
    }
    return round($size, 2) . ' ' . $unit;
  }
}

Answer 22

It's a little late but a slightly faster version of the accepted answer is below:

function formatBytes($bytes, $precision)
{
    $unit_list = array
    (
        'B',
        'KB',
        'MB',
        'GB',
        'TB',
    );

    $bytes = max($bytes, 0);
    $index = floor(log($bytes, 2) / 10);
    $index = min($index, count($unit_list) - 1);
    $bytes /= pow(1024, $index);

    return round($bytes, $precision) . ' ' . $unit_list[$index];
}

It's more efficient, due to performing a single log-2 operation instead of two log-e operations.

It's actually faster to do the more obvious solution below, however:

function formatBytes($bytes, $precision)
{
    $unit_list = array
    (
        'B',
        'KB',
        'MB',
        'GB',
        'TB',
    );

    $index_max = count($unit_list) - 1;
    $bytes = max($bytes, 0);

    for ($index = 0; $bytes >= 1024 && $index < $index_max; $index++)
    {
        $bytes /= 1024;
    }

    return round($bytes, $precision) . ' ' . $unit_list[$index];
}

This is because as the index is calculated at the same time as the value of the number of bytes in the appropriate unit. This cut the execution time by about 35% (a 55% speed increase).

Answer 23

Another condensed implementation which can translate to the base 1024 (binary) or base 1000 (decimal) and also works with incredibly large numbers hence of the use of the bc library:

function renderSize($byte,$precision=2,$mibi=true)
{
    $base = (string)($mibi?1024:1000);
    $labels = array('K','M','G','T','P','E','Z','Y');
    for($i=8;$i>=1;$i--)
        if(bccomp($byte,bcpow($base, $i))>=0)
            return bcdiv($byte,bcpow($base, $i), $precision).' '.$labels[$i-1].($mibi?'iB':'B');
    return $byte.' Byte';
}

Answer 24

I figured I would add a meshing of two submitters code (Using John Himmelman's code, which is in this thread, and using Eugene Kuzmenko's code) that I'm using.

function swissConverter($value, $format = true, $precision = 2) {
    //Below converts value into bytes depending on input (specify mb, for 
    //example)
    $bytes = preg_replace_callback('/^\s*(\d+)\s*(?:([kmgt]?)b?)?\s*$/i', 
    function ($m) {
        switch (strtolower($m[2])) {
          case 't': $m[1] *= 1024;
          case 'g': $m[1] *= 1024;
          case 'm': $m[1] *= 1024;
          case 'k': $m[1] *= 1024;
        }
        return $m[1];
        }, $value);
    if(is_numeric($bytes)) {
        if($format === true) {
            //Below converts bytes into proper formatting (human readable 
            //basically)
            $base = log($bytes, 1024);
            $suffixes = array('', 'KB', 'MB', 'GB', 'TB');   

            return round(pow(1024, $base - floor($base)), $precision) .' '. 
                     $suffixes[floor($base)];
        } else {
            return $bytes;
        }
    } else {
        return NULL; //Change to prefered response
    }
}

This uses Eugene's code to format the $value into bytes (I keep my data in MB, so it converts my data: 10485760 MB into 10995116277760) - it then uses John's code to convert it into the proper display value (10995116277760 into 10 TB).

I've found this really helpful - so my thanks to the two submitters!

Answer 25

Extremely simple function to get human file size.

Original source: http://php.net/manual/de/function.filesize.php#106569

Copy/paste code:

<?php
function human_filesize($bytes, $decimals = 2) {
  $sz = 'BKMGTP';
  $factor = floor((strlen($bytes) - 1) / 3);
  return sprintf("%.{$decimals}f", $bytes / pow(1024, $factor)) . @$sz[$factor];
}
?>

Answer 26

I developed my own function that convert human readable memory size to different sizes.

function convertMemorySize($strval, string $to_unit = 'b')
{
    $strval    = strtolower(str_replace(' ', '', $strval));
    $val       = floatval($strval);
    $to_unit   = strtolower(trim($to_unit))[0];
    $from_unit = str_replace($val, '', $strval);
    $from_unit = empty($from_unit) ? 'b' : trim($from_unit)[0];
    $units     = 'kmgtph';  // (k)ilobyte, (m)egabyte, (g)igabyte and so on...


    // Convert to bytes
    if ($from_unit !== 'b')
        $val *= 1024 ** (strpos($units, $from_unit) + 1);


    // Convert to unit
    if ($to_unit !== 'b')
        $val /= 1024 ** (strpos($units, $to_unit) + 1);


    return $val;
}


convertMemorySize('1024Kb', 'Mb');  // 1
convertMemorySize('1024', 'k')      // 1
convertMemorySize('5.2Mb', 'b')     // 5452595.2
convertMemorySize('10 kilobytes', 'bytes') // 10240
convertMemorySize(2048, 'k')        // By default convert from bytes, result is 2

This function accepts any memory size abbreviation like "Megabyte, MB, Mb, mb, m, kilobyte, K, KB, b, Terabyte, T...." so it is typo safe.

Answer 27

Base on Leo's answer, add

• Support for negative
• Support 0 < value < 1 ( Ex: 0.2, will cause log(value) = negative number )

If you want max unit to Mega, change to $units = explode(' ', ' K M');

---

function formatUnit($value, $precision = 2) {
    $units = explode(' ', ' K M G T P E Z Y');

    if ($value < 0) {
        return '-' . formatUnit(abs($value));
    }

    if ($value < 1) {
        return $value . $units[0];
    }

    $power = min(
        floor(log($value, 1024)),
        count($units) - 1
    );

    return round($value / pow(1024, $power), $precision) . $units[$power];
}