135
votes

How can I convert the output of PHP's filesize() function to a nice format with MegaBytes, KiloBytes etc?

like:

  • if the size is less than 1 MB, show the size in KB
  • if it's between 1 MB - 1 GB show it in MB
  • if it's larger - in GB
12

12 Answers

302
votes

Here is a sample:

<?php
// Snippet from PHP Share: http://www.phpshare.org

    function formatSizeUnits($bytes)
    {
        if ($bytes >= 1073741824)
        {
            $bytes = number_format($bytes / 1073741824, 2) . ' GB';
        }
        elseif ($bytes >= 1048576)
        {
            $bytes = number_format($bytes / 1048576, 2) . ' MB';
        }
        elseif ($bytes >= 1024)
        {
            $bytes = number_format($bytes / 1024, 2) . ' KB';
        }
        elseif ($bytes > 1)
        {
            $bytes = $bytes . ' bytes';
        }
        elseif ($bytes == 1)
        {
            $bytes = $bytes . ' byte';
        }
        else
        {
            $bytes = '0 bytes';
        }

        return $bytes;
}
?>
68
votes

Even nicer is this version I created from a plugin I found:

function filesize_formatted($path)
{
    $size = filesize($path);
    $units = array( 'B', 'KB', 'MB', 'GB', 'TB', 'PB', 'EB', 'ZB', 'YB');
    $power = $size > 0 ? floor(log($size, 1024)) : 0;
    return number_format($size / pow(1024, $power), 2, '.', ',') . ' ' . $units[$power];
}

Note from filesize() doc

Because PHP's integer type is signed and many platforms use 32bit integers, some filesystem functions may return unexpected results for files which are larger than 2GB

43
votes

A cleaner approach:

function Size($path)
{
    $bytes = sprintf('%u', filesize($path));

    if ($bytes > 0)
    {
        $unit = intval(log($bytes, 1024));
        $units = array('B', 'KB', 'MB', 'GB');

        if (array_key_exists($unit, $units) === true)
        {
            return sprintf('%d %s', $bytes / pow(1024, $unit), $units[$unit]);
        }
    }

    return $bytes;
}
15
votes

I think this is a better approach. Simple and straight forward.

public function sizeFilter( $bytes )
{
    $label = array( 'B', 'KB', 'MB', 'GB', 'TB', 'PB' );
    for( $i = 0; $bytes >= 1024 && $i < ( count( $label ) -1 ); $bytes /= 1024, $i++ );
    return( round( $bytes, 2 ) . " " . $label[$i] );
}
8
votes

This is based on @adnan's great answer.

Changes:

  • added internal filesize() call
  • return early style
  • saving one concatentation on 1 byte

And you can still pull the filesize() call out of the function, in order to get a pure bytes formatting function. But this works on a file.


/**
 * Formats filesize in human readable way.
 *
 * @param file $file
 * @return string Formatted Filesize, e.g. "113.24 MB".
 */
function filesize_formatted($file)
{
    $bytes = filesize($file);

    if ($bytes >= 1073741824) {
        return number_format($bytes / 1073741824, 2) . ' GB';
    } elseif ($bytes >= 1048576) {
        return number_format($bytes / 1048576, 2) . ' MB';
    } elseif ($bytes >= 1024) {
        return number_format($bytes / 1024, 2) . ' KB';
    } elseif ($bytes > 1) {
        return $bytes . ' bytes';
    } elseif ($bytes == 1) {
        return '1 byte';
    } else {
        return '0 bytes';
    }
}
7
votes

All the answers to the question uses that 1 kilobyte = 1024 bytes which is wrong! (1 kibibyte = 1024 bytes)

since the question asks to convert file sizes, it should use that 1 kilobyte = 1000 bytes (see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnitsPolicy)

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

    $bytes = max($bytes, 0);
    $pow = floor(($bytes ? log($bytes) : 0) / log(1000));
    $pow = min($pow, count($units) - 1);

    $bytes /= pow(1000, $pow);

    return round($bytes, $precision) . ' ' . $units[$pow];
}
5
votes

This would be a cleaner implementation:

function size2Byte($size) {
    $units = array('KB', 'MB', 'GB', 'TB');
    $currUnit = '';
    while (count($units) > 0  &&  $size > 1024) {
        $currUnit = array_shift($units);
        $size /= 1024;
    }
    return ($size | 0) . $currUnit;
}
4
votes

Here is a simple function to convert Bytes to KB, MB, GB, TB :

# Size in Bytes
$size = 14903511;
# Call this function to convert bytes to KB/MB/GB/TB
echo convertToReadableSize($size);
# Output => 14.2 MB

function convertToReadableSize($size){
  $base = log($size) / log(1024);
  $suffix = array("", "KB", "MB", "GB", "TB");
  $f_base = floor($base);
  return round(pow(1024, $base - floor($base)), 1) . $suffix[$f_base];
}
3
votes

A complete example.

<?php
    $units = explode(' ','B KB MB GB TB PB');
    echo("<html><body>");
    echo('file size: ' . format_size(filesize("example.txt")));
    echo("</body></html>");


    function format_size($size) {

        $mod = 1024;

        for ($i = 0; $size > $mod; $i++) {
            $size /= $mod;
        }

        $endIndex = strpos($size, ".")+3;

        return substr( $size, 0, $endIndex).' '.$units[$i];
    }
?>
2
votes
function calcSize($size,$accuracy=2) {
    $units = array('b','Kb','Mb','Gb');
    foreach($units as $n=>$u) {
        $div = pow(1024,$n);
        if($size > $div) $output = number_format($size/$div,$accuracy).$u;
    }
    return $output;
}
2
votes
function getNiceFileSize($file, $digits = 2){
    if (is_file($file)) {
        $filePath = $file;
        if (!realpath($filePath)) {
            $filePath = $_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] . $filePath;
        }
        $fileSize = filesize($filePath);
        $sizes = array("TB", "GB", "MB", "KB", "B");
        $total = count($sizes);
        while ($total-- && $fileSize > 1024) {
            $fileSize /= 1024;
        }
        return round($fileSize, $digits) . " " . $sizes[$total];
    }
    return false;
}
1
votes
//Get the size in bytes
function calculateFileSize($size)
{
   $sizes = ['B', 'KB', 'MB', 'GB'];
   $count=0;
   if ($size < 1024) {
    return $size . " " . $sizes[$count];
    } else{
     while ($size>1024){
        $size=round($size/1024,2);
        $count++;
    }
     return $size . " " . $sizes[$count];
   }
}