[PHP] Using PHP to get size of mySQL data?

I want to query a table of text articles and when selecting them I am wondering if I can grab the actual size of the articles in question. So if someone has two articles, I want to see if they have reache 100kb in total. Does that make sense to anyone? is that possible with PHP? Jeff

Re: [PHP] Using PHP to get size of mySQL data?

Untested, but looks about right: select sum( length( article_text ) ) as total from articles_table where user_id = 'user to match; This is SQL though, so it's kinda OT. Cheers, Rob. On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 22:45, Jeff Lewis wrote: I want to query a table of text articles and when