Retrieving the file size of a given file

[Scripting X]

Hi sitepoint,

I have a question about (.zip, .tar, .tar.gz) files. I want to know how you can get the file size of the given file, although I do use mysql to store certain information about the script, NO ACTUAL file is stored in the db, instead that is in a dir. so obviously strlen() would be pointless. I just wanted to know what methods I could use for checking out the file size of the given file.

Thanks, Chris.

[tubedogg]

Yep. Named, appropriately enough, filesize()

[Defender1]

if your uploading it via yoru web browser - ie upload script - you could use $uploadedfile_size where $uploadedfile is the name attribute of the file input type in your form. php automatically creates and stores the files size in bytes in that variable.