[SOLVED] Track image bandwidth

[steviez]

Hi,

 

I am developing a new image hosting script for my site and would like to track the bandwidth each image uses, Is there a way to do this in PHP and if so can someone please point me in the right direction

 

 

Thanks

[discomatt]

Assuming you're serving the file using a PHP script, simply make a filesize() call before you read/serve the image and store it wherever.

[steviez]

How does that track bandwidth?

[DarkWater]

You track the filesize before serving up the image, and store it, adding to a running total for that image.

[steviez]

any demos on how to do this?

[benphelps]

<?php

$file = $_GET['image'];

// no trailing "/" for the image directory
$imagedir = '.';

$bandwidthused = filesize($imagedir.'/'.$file) or ;

?>

 

This would work if the image is called from the URL like this "http://domain.com/load.php?image=sample.jpg"

 

From there the $bandwidthused var. will store the bandwidth the image used in bytes.

[Prismatic]

You can even use mod_rewrite to make your urls look like valid image URL's yet point to your script

 

http://www.yoursite.com/images.php?name=bleh.jpg

 

vs

 

http://www.yoursite.com/images/bleh.jpg

[steviez]

thanks for all your help guys, i have got it working now

[DyslexicDog]

<?php

$file = $_GET['image'];

// no trailing "/" for the image directory
$imagedir = '.';

$bandwidthused = filesize($imagedir.'/'.$file) or ;

?>

 

This would work if the image is called from the URL like this "http://domain.com/load.php?image=sample.jpg"

 

From there the $bandwidthused var. will store the bandwidth the image used in bytes.

 

This would be a unsafe way to do this and shouldn't be used on a production site. Be sure to include some error handling and sanitize your incoming variables.