How to determine the memory footprint (size) of a variable?

Question

Is there a function in PHP (or a PHP extension) to find out how much memory a given variable uses? sizeof just tells me the number of elements/properties.

Answer 1

function mesure($var){
    $start = memory_get_usage();
    if(is_string($var)){
        $newValue = $var . '';
    }elseif(is_numeric($var)){
        $newValue = $var + 0;
    }elseif(is_object($var)){
        $newValue = clone $var;
    }elseif(is_array($var)){
        $newValue = array_flip($var, []);
    }
    return memory_get_usage() - $start;
}