Get Remote File Size Using PHP

We can get a file's size by using PHP build in filesize function. But the problem is this function only works for local file. If you want to get a remote file's size you need to think some other way. In this post I am going to show you how we can get a remote file's size from it's header information with out downloading file. I will show you two example. One, using get_headers function and another using cURL. Using get_headers is very simple  approach  and works for every body. Using cURL is more advance and powerful. You can use any one of these. But I  recommend  to use cURL approach. Here we go..


get_headers  Approach:

<?php

/**
 * Get Remote File Size
 *
 * @param sting $url as remote file URL
 * @return int as file size in byte
 */
function remote_file_size($url){
    # Get all header information
    $data = get_headers($url, true);
    # Look up validity
    if (isset($data['Content-Length']))
        # Return file size
        return (int) $data['Content-Length'];
}

echo remote_file_size('http://www.google.com/images/srpr/logo4w.png');

?>

Output:

19978

cURL  Approach:

<?php

/**
 * Remote File Size Using cURL
 * @param srting $url
 * @return int || void
 */
function remotefileSize($url) {
    $ch = curl_init($url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 0);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, 3);
    curl_exec($ch);
    $filesize = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD);
    curl_close($ch);
    if ($filesize) return $filesize;
}

echo remotefileSize('http://www.google.com/images/srpr/logo4w.png');

?>

Output:

19978