Question

I need to set php header("Content-Length: length"), where length is a byte value. Right now I have arbitrarily set it to 1 megabyte due to the variable size of my post request, but I want to dynamically generate this so that there isn’t erroneous data.

How can I get the byte size of my object before I send it to the server. I am making a soapCall so I have to set the header before I do that call, instead of adding a parameter to curl or something.

Answer 1

You can do the following (there ought to be something better, I know):

$before = memory_get_usage(TRUE);
$objectClone = clone $yourObject;
$after = memory_get_usage(TRUE);
$objectSize = $after - $before;  #size of your object
$objectClone = $null; #dispose of clone