You could use something like:
$space_used = 0;
$dir = "directory/path/";
if ($handle = opendir($dir)) {
while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
$filesize = filesize($file);
$space_used += $filesize;
}
closedir($handle);
}
echo($space_used." bytes used");
Although this won't take subdirectorys into account.