Get the actual filesize for a size above 2GB in Windows

If you want to get the actual filesize for a size above 2GB in Windows, you can use the COM-extensions in PHP.

An example is as follows:

<?php
function KFileSize($file)
{
   if (file_exists($file))
   {
      $fsobj = new COM("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
      $file = $fsobj->GetFile($file);
      $var = ($file->Size) + 1 - 1;
          
      return $var;
   }
   else
   {
          // File does not exist
          return 0;
   }
}
?>

This will return the corrent filesize. And it is very useful with PHP-GTK applications, where you want to use the filesize for larger files.

This example also works for files over a Windows-network. Try this example with the function:

echo KFileSize("c:/tmp/foo.mp3");