Zend_Measure_Binary will already do the heavy lifting for you.
http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.measure.types.html#zend.measure.types.binary
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Michał Zieliński <zie...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Sometimes you`d like to present the file size in a more friendlier way than
> 1000000000000B.
> Is not that it is hard to write such view helper or filter to do so but I
> see that Zend_Validator_Size already do something like this.
>
> protected function _toByteString($size)
> {
> $sizes = array('B', 'kB', 'MB', 'GB', 'TB', 'PB', 'EB', 'ZB', 'YB');
> for ($i=0; $size >= 1024 && $i < 9; $i++) {
> $size /= 1024;
> }
> return round($size, 2) . $sizes[$i];
> }
>
> I`d like to ask if this method shouldn`t be outside? As a filter or helper?
> If you`d like to show filesize on your website you hardly ever want to
> display it without formatting. Now you have to copy the above code or write
> similar on your own.
> What do you think?
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