Question

If I know flv video,
for example:

www.domain.com/video.flv

I can’t use “filesize” because it doesn’t able to check size from external url, right?
So, how can I know his size?

Answer 1

You can use CURL to get the headers of a remote file, including the size of a file.

$url = 'http://www.domain.com/video.flv';

$ch = curl_init(); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE); 
$headers = curl_exec($ch);

$size = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD);

curl_close($ch); 

Setting CURLOPT_NOBODY to true, makes CURL not download the body of a requested URL.