PHP x86 How to get filesize of > 2 GB file without external program?

Question

I need to get the file size of a file over 2 GB in size. (testing on 4.6 GB file). Is there any way to do this without an external program?

Current status:

• filesize(), stat() and fseek() fails
• fread() and feof() works

There is a possibility to get the file size by reading the file content (extremely slow!).

$size = (float) 0;
$chunksize = 1024 * 1024;
while (!feof($fp)) {
    fread($fp, $chunksize);
    $size += (float) $chunksize;
}
return $size;

I know how to get it on 64-bit platforms (using fseek($fp, 0, SEEK_END) and ftell()), but I need solution for 32-bit platform.

---

Solution: I've started open-source project for this.

Big File Tools

Big File Tools is a collection of hacks that are needed to manipulate files over 2 GB in PHP (even on 32-bit systems).

• answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/35233556/631369
• github: https://github.com/jkuchar/BigFileTools

Answer 1

Here's one possible method:

It first attempts to use a platform-appropriate shell command (Windows shell substitution modifiers or *nix/Mac stat command). If that fails, it tries COM (if on Windows), and finally falls back to filesize().

/*
 * This software may be modified and distributed under the terms
 * of the MIT license.
 */

function filesize64($file)
{
    static $iswin;
    if (!isset($iswin)) {
        $iswin = (strtoupper(substr(PHP_OS, 0, 3)) == 'WIN');
    }

    static $exec_works;
    if (!isset($exec_works)) {
        $exec_works = (function_exists('exec') && !ini_get('safe_mode') && @exec('echo EXEC') == 'EXEC');
    }

    // try a shell command
    if ($exec_works) {
        $cmd = ($iswin) ? "for %F in (\"$file\") do @echo %~zF" : "stat -c%s \"$file\"";
        @exec($cmd, $output);
        if (is_array($output) && ctype_digit($size = trim(implode("\n", $output)))) {
            return $size;
        }
    }

    // try the Windows COM interface
    if ($iswin && class_exists("COM")) {
        try {
            $fsobj = new COM('Scripting.FileSystemObject');
            $f = $fsobj->GetFile( realpath($file) );
            $size = $f->Size;
        } catch (Exception $e) {
            $size = null;
        }
        if (ctype_digit($size)) {
            return $size;
        }
    }

    // if all else fails
    return filesize($file);
}