Frecosse Website Design

It’s sometimes helpful to be able to get the amount of space being used in a directory, especially if you’re running a website on a limited bit of space.

The following PHP function will work out the amount of space used, the amount of files in the directory, and the number of sub-directories. Simply call it with your desired path, eg /home/username/public_html/graphics

function getDirectorySize($path) {
$totalsize = 0;
$totalcount = 0;
$dircount = 0;
if ($handle = opendir ($path)) {
	while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
	$nextpath = $path . '/' . $file;
	if ($file != '.' && $file != '..' && !is_link ($nextpath)) {
		if (is_dir ($nextpath))
		{
		  $dircount++;
		  $result = getDirectorySize($nextpath);
		  $totalsize += $result['size'];
		  $totalcount += $result['count'];
		  $dircount += $result['dircount'];
		} elseif (is_file ($nextpath)) {
		  $totalsize += filesize ($nextpath);
		  $totalcount++;
		}
	  }
	}
}
closedir ($handle);
$total['size'] = $totalsize;
$total['count'] = $totalcount;
$total['dircount'] = $dircount;
return $total;
}

This will return an array for you, so if you’ve called the function with $total=getDirectorySize(‘your_path’), you can now find the individual pieces of information using $total[0] for size, $total[1] for file count and $total[2] for directory count.

You’ll find that the size of the directory is a bit unweildy, so the following function will convert it into a nice, easily-understood number for you!

function sizeFormat($size) {
	if($size<1024) {
	     return $size." bytes";
	} else if($size<(1024*1024)) {
	     $size=round($size/1024,1);
	     return $size."kb";
	} else if($size<(1024*1024*1024)) {
	     $size=round($size/(1024*1024),1);
	     if ($size < 10) {
                  // HERE WE HAVE HIGHLIGHTED THAT
                  // THE SPACE LEFT IS LESS THAN 10 MB
                  return "<span style="color: #ff0000;">".$size."mb</span>";
	     } else {
		  return $size."mb";
	     }
	} else {
	     $size=round($size/(1024*1024*1024),1);
	     return $size."gb";
	}
}

To convert the size, simply call the function thus, $size=sizeFormat($total[0]); and then echo out your converted size.