PHP | filesize() Function

Hello folks! welcome back to a new edition of our tutorial on PHP. In this tutorial guide, we are going to be studying about the PHP filesize() Function.

The built-in PHP filesize() function returns the size of a specified file.

Syntax

Following below is the syntax to use this function -

int filesize ( string $filename )

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This function returns the file size in bytes or false (and can generate an error of the level E_WARNING) in case of an error.

Return Value

This built-in function returns the file size in bytes on success or false on failure.

Example

Try out the below example -

<?php
   $filename = "/PhpProject/sample.txt";
   echo $filename . ': ' . filesize($filename) . ' bytes';
?>

Output

When the above code is executed, it will produce the following result -

/PhpProject/sample.txt: 40 bytes

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Alright guys! This is where we are going to be rounding up for this tutorial post. In our next tutorial, we are going to be discussing about the PHP filetype() Function.

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