get server ram with php

Question

Is there a way to know the avaliable ram in a server (linux distro) with php (widthout using linux commands)?

edit: sorry, the objective is to be aware of the ram av

Answer 1

Small and tidy function to get all of its values associated to their keys.

$contents = file_get_contents('/proc/meminfo');
preg_match_all('/(\w+):\s+(\d+)\s/', $contents, $matches);
$info = array_combine($matches[1], $matches[2]);

// $info['MemTotal'] = "2047442"