human readable file size

Question

function humanFileSize($size)
{
    if ($size >= 1073741824) {
      $fileSize = round($size / 1024 / 1024 / 1024,1) . 'GB';
    } elseif ($size >= 1048576) {
        $fileSize = round($size / 1024 / 1024,1) . 'MB';
    } elseif($size >= 1024) {
        $fileSize = round($size / 1024,1) . 'KB';
    } else {
        $fileSize = $size . ' bytes';
    }
    return $fileSize;
}

... works great except: I can't manually choose in what format I need to display, say i want to show in MB only whatever the file size is. Currently if its in the GB range, it would only show in GB.

Also, how do I limit the decimal to 2?

Answer 1

A pretty short 3 lines method that I use (1024 = 1KB) and supports from KB to YB is the following one:

<?php 

/**
 * Converts a long string of bytes into a readable format e.g KB, MB, GB, TB, YB
 * 
 * @param {Int} num The number of bytes.
 */
function readableBytes($bytes) {
    $i = floor(log($bytes) / log(1024));

    $sizes = array('B', 'KB', 'MB', 'GB', 'TB', 'PB', 'EB', 'ZB', 'YB');

    return sprintf('%.02F', $bytes / pow(1024, $i)) * 1 . ' ' . $sizes[$i];
}

// "1000 B"
echo readableBytes(1000);

// "9.42 MB"
echo readableBytes(9874321);

// "9.31 GB"
// The number of bytes as a string is accepted as well
echo readableBytes("10000000000");

// "648.37 TB"
echo readableBytes(712893712304234);

// "5.52 PB"
echo readableBytes(6212893712323224);

More info about these methods on this article.

Answer 2

You can modify your function to fullfil both your need to force a unit if given and adjust the precision.

function humanFileSize($size, $precision = 1, $show = "")
{
    $b = $size;
    $kb = round($size / 1024, $precision);
    $mb = round($kb / 1024, $precision);
    $gb = round($mb / 1024, $precision);

    if($kb == 0 || $show == "B") {
        return $b . " bytes";
    } else if($mb == 0 || $show == "KB") {
        return $kb . "KB";
    } else if($gb == 0 || $show == "MB") {
        return $mb . "MB";
    } else {
        return $gb . "GB";
    }
}

//Test with different values
echo humanFileSize(1038) . "<br />";    
echo humanFileSize(103053, 0) . "<br />";
echo humanFileSize(103053) . "<br />";
echo humanFileSize(1030544553) . "<br />";
echo humanFileSize(1030534053405, 2, "GB") . "<br />";  ;

Answer 3

function getHumanReadableSize($size, $unit = null, $decemals = 2) {
    $byteUnits = ['B', 'kB', 'MB', 'GB', 'TB', 'PB', 'EB', 'ZB', 'YB'];
    if (!is_null($unit) && !in_array($unit, $byteUnits)) {
        $unit = null;
    }
    $extent = 1;
    foreach ($byteUnits as $rank) {
        if ((is_null($unit) && ($size < $extent <<= 10)) || ($rank == $unit)) {
            break;
        }
    }
    return number_format($size / ($extent >> 10), $decemals) . $rank;
}

If php version below 5.4 use $byteUnits = array('B', 'kB', 'MB', 'GB', 'TB', 'PB', 'EB', 'ZB', 'YB');