PHP convert KB MB GB TB etc to Bytes

Question

I\'m asking how to convert KB MB GB TB & co. into bytes.
For example:

byteconvert(\"10KB\") // => 10240
byteconvert(\"10.5KB\") // =>          


        

Answer 1

Here's what I've come up with so far, that I think is a much more elegant solution:

/**
 * Converts a human readable file size value to a number of bytes that it
 * represents. Supports the following modifiers: K, M, G and T.
 * Invalid input is returned unchanged.
 *
 * Example:
 * <code>
 * $config->human2byte(10);          // 10
 * $config->human2byte('10b');       // 10
 * $config->human2byte('10k');       // 10240
 * $config->human2byte('10K');       // 10240
 * $config->human2byte('10kb');      // 10240
 * $config->human2byte('10Kb');      // 10240
 * // and even
 * $config->human2byte('   10 KB '); // 10240
 * </code>
 *
 * @param number|string $value
 * @return number
 */
public function human2byte($value) {
  return preg_replace_callback('/^\s*(\d+)\s*(?:([kmgt]?)b?)?\s*$/i', function ($m) {
    switch (strtolower($m[2])) {
      case 't': $m[1] *= 1024;
      case 'g': $m[1] *= 1024;
      case 'm': $m[1] *= 1024;
      case 'k': $m[1] *= 1024;
    }
    return $m[1];
  }, $value);
}

Answer 2

<?php
function byteconvert($input)
{
    preg_match('/(\d+)(\w+)/', $input, $matches);
    $type = strtolower($matches[2]);
    switch ($type) {
    case "b":
        $output = $matches[1];
        break;
    case "kb":
        $output = $matches[1]*1024;
        break;
    case "mb":
        $output = $matches[1]*1024*1024;
        break;
    case "gb":
        $output = $matches[1]*1024*1024*1024;
        break;
    case "tb":
        $output = $matches[1]*1024*1024*1024;
        break;
    }
    return $output;
}
$foo = "10mb";
echo "$foo = ".byteconvert($foo)." byte";
?>

Answer 3

Wanting something similar to this and not quite liking the other solutions posted here for various reasons, I decided to write my own function:

function ConvertUserStrToBytes($str)
{
    $str = trim($str);
    $num = (double)$str;
    if (strtoupper(substr($str, -1)) == "B")  $str = substr($str, 0, -1);
    switch (strtoupper(substr($str, -1)))
    {
        case "P":  $num *= 1024;
        case "T":  $num *= 1024;
        case "G":  $num *= 1024;
        case "M":  $num *= 1024;
        case "K":  $num *= 1024;
    }

    return $num;
}

It adapts a few of the ideas presented here by Al Jey (whitespace handling) and John V (switch-case) but without the regex, doesn't call pow(), lets switch-case do its thing when there aren't breaks, and can handle some weird user inputs (e.g. " 123 wonderful KB " results in 125952). I'm sure there is a more optimal solution that involves fewer instructions but the code would be less clean/readable.

Answer 4

I know this is a relative old topic, but here's a function that I sometimes have to use when I need this kind of stuff; You may excuse for if the functions dont work, I wrote this for hand in a mobile:

function intobytes($bytes, $stamp = 'b') {
    $indx = array_search($stamp, array('b', 'kb', 'mb', 'gb', 'tb', 'pb', 'yb'));
    if ($indx > 0) {
        return $bytes * pow(1024, $indx);
    }
    return $bytes;
}

and as compact

function intobytes($bytes, $stamp='b') {$indx=array_search($stamp,array('b','kb','mb','gb','tb','pb','yb'));if($indx > 0){return $bytes * pow(1024,$indx);} return $bytes;}

Take care!

Brodde85 ;)

Answer 5

Here's a function to achieve this:

function convertToBytes(string $from): ?int {
    $units = ['B', 'KB', 'MB', 'GB', 'TB', 'PB'];
    $number = substr($from, 0, -2);
    $suffix = strtoupper(substr($from,-2));

    //B or no suffix
    if(is_numeric(substr($suffix, 0, 1))) {
        return preg_replace('/[^\d]/', '', $from);
    }

    $exponent = array_flip($units)[$suffix] ?? null;
    if($exponent === null) {
        return null;
    }

    return $number * (1024 ** $exponent);
}

$testCases = ["13", "13B", "13KB", "10.5KB", "123Mi"];
var_dump(array_map('convertToBytes', $testCases));

Output:

array(5) { [0]=> int(13) [1]=> int(13) [2]=> int(13312) [3]=> int(10752) [4]=> NULL } int(1)

Answer 6

I use a function to determine the memory limit set for PHP in some cron scripts that looks like:

$memoryInBytes = function ($value) {
    $unit = strtolower(substr($value, -1, 1));
    return (int) $value * pow(1024, array_search($unit, array(1 =>'k','m','g')));
}

A similar approach that will work better with floats and accept the two letter abbreviation would be something like:

function byteconvert($value) {
    preg_match('/(.+)(.{2})$/', $value, $matches);
    list($_,$value,$unit) = $matches;
    return (int) ($value * pow(1024, array_search(strtolower($unit), array(1 => 'kb','mb','gb','tb'))));
}