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I’ve tried this (documentation states it is compatible w/ EE2), and found this (no EE2 version). The human filesizer is installed, but it doesn’t actually do anything. It only outputs a static 4KB, and ignores the custom file field that I have between the open and closing tags.

Has anyone had any luck with this in EE2?

I suppose I can just probably tool around with some php and write something fairly simple to convert the byte size of the linked file.. meh…. {this is so}{/much easier though}

<?php 
function formatBytes($bytes, $precision = 2) { 
    $units = array('B', 'KB', 'MB', 'GB', 'TB'); 
   
    $bytes = max($bytes, 0); 
    $pow = floor(($bytes ? log($bytes) : 0) / log(1024)); 
    $pow = min($pow, count($units) - 1); 
   
    $bytes /= pow(1024, $pow); 
   
    return round($bytes, $precision) . ' ' . $units[$pow]; 
} 
?>

I’ve been looking at these 2 offerings, just haven’t got around to it yet:

http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/ss-human-filesize/

http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/file-oracle/

Both claim EE2 compatibility

Yes, a third-party add-on (or some custom PHP code, of course) would be the way to go. Does that help, Tony?

I suppose in answering the question that was posted in the title of the thread, a third party plugin, or a custom php solution would be the way to go….

More specifically, the two mentioned plugins by SS seem to almost get me there. Unfortunately the plugins only support the relative path, or server path. But I want to display the human size of a file that is a custom field of the type “file.”

The File Oracle plugin does work when I hard code the file name, while the Human Filesizer does not.

Any insight how to display a relative file path, or remove the http://www.domainname.com/ from the rendered code that the {ee_short_tag} produces. I’m going to try a find and replace plugin and see if I can find the “http://www.domainname.com” and replace it with nothing. This may get me there, in theory.

I’ll post the results shortly. However if any other brains see a reason this may not work in the mean time, I’m open to other suggestions of course.

So after some experimenting with Low - Replace (http://loweblog.com/software/low-replace/)

I wrote this:

<a class="dl" rel="tag" href="{mix_zip}" title="{title}">download ↓ ({exp:file_oracle file={exp:low_replace find='http://domainhere.com/' replace='/'}{mix_zip}{/exp:low_replace}}{human_size}{/exp:file_oracle})

If I take the low_replace tag and try it outside of the file_oracle tag pair, it does find and replace the text correctly. But the file_oracle plugin does not see this as a relative path within when used in conjunction with the low_replace tag.

As I said, a static coded relative path for the file makes the file_oracle plugin work, and display the correct file size. Is there any way that anyone knows of to display a relative path with an ee short tag. So that {mix_zip} displays a relative path without the http://domainname.com in front?

Here was my solution, assisted by my good friend Dave Rau.

Turn PHP on for the template.

Use this function:

<?php
function get_file_size($file) {
        $file = str_replace('http://yourdomain.com/', '', $file);
        $size = filesize($file);
        $units = array("B","kB","MB","GB","TB","PB","EB","ZB","YB");
 
        foreach($units as $pow => $unit) {
                if($size / pow(1024, $pow) < 1024)
                        return number_format($size / pow(1024, $pow)) . ' ' . $unit;   
        }
}
?>

Use this to output the file size:

<?php echo get_file_size('{custom_field}'); ?>

See it in action here: http://djop1.com/ (under development)

Thanks for posting your solution, Tony. I know this will help others who want the same functionality.

Don’t hesitate to post again as needed.