Stupidest request by me ever!

[ppowell]

I am writing a function that will convert a large integer into a readable byte format (e.g. 1000000 = "1 mb"), but it's totally failing and I can't seem to fix it:

if (!function_exists('convert_number_to_unit')) {

 function convert_number_to_unit(&$number, $unit) {
  if (!isset($origUnit)) {
   static $origUnit;
   $origUnit = $unit;
  }
  if ((int)$number === 0 || !$unit) return $number;
  // RECURSION METHOD TO BREAK NUMBER DOWN 
  switch (strtoupper($unit)) {
   case 'TB' :			// TERABYTES
    if (strcmp(strtoupper($unit), strtoupper($origUnit)) == 0)
     return (double)number_format(convert_number_to_unit($number, 'mb') / 1000); 
    return (double)(convert_number_to_unit($number, 'mb') / 1000);
   case 'MB' :			// MEGABYTES
    if (strcmp(strtoupper($unit), strtoupper($origUnit)) == 0) 
     return (double)number_format(convert_number_to_unit($number, 'kb') / 1000);
    return (double)(convert_number_to_unit($number, 'kb') / 1000);
   case 'KB' :			// KILOBYTES
    if (strcmp(strtoupper($unit), strtoupper($origUnit)) == 0) return (double)number_format($number / 1000);
    return (double)($number / 1000);
  }
 }
}

This is such a very simple function and that's probably why I can't do it.

HELP!

Thanx
Phil

[kburger]

Here's a little function I use.

// 'human readable' filesize conversion
function byte_format($input, $dec=0) {
	if ($input == 0) return " ";
	$abbrev = array(" B", " KB", " MB", " GB", " TB");
	$i=0;
	while ($input > 1024) {
		$input /= 1024;
		$i++;
	}
	return round($input, $dec) . $abbrev[$i];
}

Edit: Technically, 1,024 bytes is a kilobyte, not 1,000 bytes. Same thing goes for megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes, pedabytes, etc.

[LoganK]

What about yottabytes?

I'd love to have a 4-yottapixel camera 😃

[kburger]

Yeah, that too. Whatever that is. Apparently I can't even spell petabytes, much less yotta- yotta- yottabytes. I actually thought I was being pretty ambitious just to include terabytes in that function. 😃

[LoganK]

Actually, ambitious would be starting at petabyte. Because, believe it or not, there are some database systems that span across terabytes of data (mainly one company: Teraserver). Someone I know is a DBA for them and let me tell you - it's one big database!

[ppowell]

I've heard of Teraserver, they mainly deal with large data gatherers, such as large corporate banking institutions, etc. That's indeed big!

I will keep in mind your function. Mysteriously, or perhaps after my ADD disability subsided, my function worked, somehow!

Phil

[LoganK]

Yes, it sure is big. Terabyte's right in their name! 😃

[kburger]

ppowell wrote:

Mysteriously, or perhaps after my ADD disability subsided, my function worked, somehow!

Not if you're using 1000 bytes to represent a kilobyte. Maybe it didn't fail to function, but it wouldn't be correct.