Get Variable Memory Size

[sakthipro]

Hi,

is there any thing available to get the variable size?
ie.

$temp="Temp";

will result 4 bytes.

[Purple]

Hi,

Would it be rude to ask what you are trying to achieve over and above the question as stated..

Rgds Purple

[pbmods]

About the closest thing PHP has to that is var_dump.

http://php.net/var_dump

Now I'm curious, too. Whatcha gettin' at?

[Atli]

About the closest thing PHP has to that is var_dump.

http://php.net/var_dump

Now I'm curious, too. Whatcha gettin' at?

Yea I've been looking for a way to do this all day and I haven't found anything.
What puzzles me even more is why would you need to do this?

[code green]

The only possible use in php that I can think of is for writing to files, if there is to be some size limitation. Of course the estimate would be wrong because of the different overhead created by different files.