Forums / Setup & design / How to get the size of a remote file?
Marco Zinn
Friday 10 December 2010 10:51:55 am
Hi there,
I'm looking for a way (template operator) to retrieve the size of a remote file. I have the full URL of the file in a text line attribute and I want to create a link in the template to the file. Works nice. Now, i want to display the (remote) file size next to the link.
How can this be done? I did not find a template operator for this yet. Although, there does not seem to exist a PHP function for this. I thought, i could use "filesize" for this (http://php.net/manual/de/function.filesize.php ) and use it throught PHPOperatorList , but this is only intended for local files.
Any idea?
Marco http://www.hyperroad-design.com
Carlos Revillo
Friday 10 December 2010 11:24:52 am
Maybe you can have a look at some of the comments to filesize function and do a function working like that.
have a look at
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.filesize.php#92462
Ivo Lukac
Monday 13 December 2010 12:56:11 am
Try it with curl. E.g.. http://snipplr.com/view/29/get-remote-filesize/
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Tuesday 14 December 2010 1:47:55 pm
Thanks for your replies.
So, i read, that currently, there is no built-in or otherwise "easy-to-get" option for this. One would need to write a (simple) template operator for it, right?
Wednesday 15 December 2010 12:31:33 am
In short, yes :)