Sometimes it’s nice to know or even very important to know, how much your PHP script is using memory. This is a simple example of a class, which can be used to collect the PHP script memory usage information and to print all information. It’s easy to reformat output, if you want to use it example on web page or command line script. Or even do another function for web pages and another for command line scripts.

Memory Usage Information PHP Class⌗ 

<?php

  class MemoryUsageInformation {
    private $real_usage;
    private $statistics = array();

    // Memory Usage Information constructor
    public function __construct($real_usage = false) {
      $this->real_usage = $real_usage;
    }

    // Returns current memory usage with or without styling
    public function getCurrentMemoryUsage($with_style = true) {
      $mem = memory_get_usage($this->real_usage);
      return ($with_style) ? $this->byteFormat($mem) : $mem;
    }

    // Returns peak of memory usage
    public function getPeakMemoryUsage($with_style = true) {
      $mem = memory_get_peak_usage($this->real_usage);
      return ($with_style) ? $this->byteFormat($mem) : $mem;
    }

    // Set memory usage with info
    public function setMemoryUsage($info = '') {
      $this->statistics[] = array('time' => time(), 
                                  'info' => $info, 
                                  'memory_usage' => $this->getCurrentMemoryUsage());
    }

    // Print all memory usage info and memory limit and 
    public function printMemoryUsageInformation() {
      foreach ($this->statistics as $satistic) {
        echo  "Time: " . $satistic['time'] . 
              " | Memory Usage: " . $satistic['memory_usage'] . 
              " | Info: " . $satistic['info'];
        echo "\n";
      }
      echo "\n\n";
      echo "Peak of memory usage: " . $this->getPeakMemoryUsage();
      echo "\n\n";
    }

    // Set start with default info or some custom info
    public function setStart($info = 'Initial Memory Usage') {
      $this->setMemoryUsage($info);
    }

    // Set end with default info or some custom info
    public function setEnd($info = 'Memory Usage at the End') {
      $this->setMemoryUsage($info);
    }

    // Byte formatting
    private function byteFormat($bytes, $unit = "", $decimals = 2) {
	    $units = array('B' => 0, 'KB' => 1, 'MB' => 2, 'GB' => 3, 'TB' => 4, 
			    'PB' => 5, 'EB' => 6, 'ZB' => 7, 'YB' => 8);
     
	    $value = 0;
	    if ($bytes > 0) {
		    // Generate automatic prefix by bytes 
		    // If wrong prefix given
		    if (!array_key_exists($unit, $units)) {
			    $pow = floor(log($bytes)/log(1024));
			    $unit = array_search($pow, $units);
		    }
     
		    // Calculate byte value by prefix
		    $value = ($bytes/pow(1024,floor($units[$unit])));
	    }
     
	    // If decimals is not numeric or decimals is less than 0 
	    // then set default value
	    if (!is_numeric($decimals) || $decimals < 0) {
		    $decimals = 2;
	    }
     
	    // Format output
	    return sprintf('%.' . $decimals . 'f '.$unit, $value);
    }
  }

Example Usage of Memory Usage Information Class⌗ 

<?php

  // Create new MemoryUsageInformation class
  $m = new MemoryUsageInformation(true);

  // Set start
  $m->setStart();

  // Create example array
  $a = array();

  // Set memory usage before loop
  $m->setMemoryUsage('Before Loop');

  // Fill array with
  for($i = 0; $i setMemoryUsage('After Loop');

  // Unset array
  unset($a);

  // Set memory usage after unset
  $m->setMemoryUsage('After Unset');

  // Set end
  $m->setEnd();

  // Print memory usage statistics
  $m->printMemoryUsageInformation();

Example Output of Memory Usage Information class⌗ 

Time: 1321095944 | Memory Usage: 768.00 KB | Info: Initial Memory Usage
Time: 1321095944 | Memory Usage: 768.00 KB | Info: Before Loop
Time: 1321095951 | Memory Usage: 24.25 MB | Info: After Loop
Time: 1321095951 | Memory Usage: 1.25 MB | Info: After Unset
Time: 1321095951 | Memory Usage: 1.25 MB | Info: Memory Usage at the End

Peak of memory usage: 24.25 MB