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[P-nut]

I'm on a server using cpanel and would like to code something simple to display a user's disk space usage to them. I don't have root access to the server and don't want the users to have direct cpanel access.

Is it possible to achieve this using PHP?

[Tomer]

You want to show how much diskspace a certain directory is using?

- Tomer

[P-nut]

That's right.

[Tomer]

Exactly what you need.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/functio...otal-space.php

- Tomer

[P-nut]

Thanks. That sort of helps; however I end up with the free space on the entire disk partition, and not just the user's directory

[Roy@ENHOST]

The fact that you dont have root access makes it hard.
You would like to use cURL to retrieve a user's Account Info page and use regex to get the free disk space.
The catch is that you need the user's loginname & password.
Ive done something similar and it works. Good luck though.

[arkin]

I think the only way to pick up a users free space is by setting a variable manually to establish how much they start with and then subtract the used space.

I would avoid logging into cPanel via sockets as Roy mentioned, good theory, but could be highly insecure and I would stay away from it.

[P-nut]

Roy@ENHost kindly pointed me to this script:
http://www.josheli.com/vox/view_sour...disk_usage.php

The only thing is is that it returns all of the users' diskspace that are in my WHM. I only need it to find the user who is logged in and return their disk space usage.

Here's the scrip (I've trimmed some of it to focus on the parts that actually handle the connecting):

PHP Code:

<?php
/*

Report looks like this:

Timestamp: September 14, 2003, 6:55 am

Reseller Total: 84.80
Domain: client1.com -- Space used: 19 Meg
Domain: client2.com -- Space used: 11 Meg
Domain: client3.com -- Space used: 104 Meg
Domain: client4.com -- Space used: 0 Meg
Domain: client5.com -- Space used: 14 Meg
Domain: client6.org -- Space used: 13 Meg
Domain: client7.com -- Space used: 8 Meg
Total space used: 253.8
Remaining space: 246.2


*/

/***********************************************************************
Start of configurable variables
************************************************************************/

$whmUser = 'username';
$whmPass = 'password';
$cpUser = 'username';
$cpPass = 'password';
$url = 'www.mydomain.com';//do not include 'https://'
$cpTheme = 'vertex';
$resellerQuota = 500;//in megabytes (e.g. 1.5 gigs would be '1500')

/***********************************************************************
End of configurable variables
************************************************************************/


$msg = 'Timestamp: '.date("F j, Y, g:i a")."\n\n";

//get the main reseller account usage from cpanel
//the other possible way to do this is to do a system call to 'du -ms'
$page = @file_get_contents("https://$cpUser:$cpPass@$url:2083/frontend/$cpTheme/main.html");

$int = preg_match("/>Disk.*?<\/b>/is",$page, $piece);
if($int) {
    //$resellerTotal[1] will contain the value
    preg_match('/<b>(.*)<\/b>/',$piece[0], $resellerTotal);
    $msg .= 'Reseller Total: '.$resellerTotal[1]."\n";
}

//now get the WHM 'list accounts' page
$page2 = @file_get_contents("https://$whmUser:$whmPass@$url:2087/scripts2/listaccts?viewall=1");

//get each accounts table row
$int2 = preg_match_all("/<tr class=(?:tdshade2|tdshade1)>(.*?)<\/tr>/is", $page2, $matches);

if($int2 > 0 && is_array($matches[1])) {
    foreach($matches[1] as $match) {        
        $account = explode('</td><td>',$match);
        $msg .= 'Domain: '.strip_tags($account[0]).' -- Space used: '.$account[7]."\n";
        $clientTotal += $account[7];
    }
    $total = ceil($clientTotal + $resellerTotal[1]);
    $msg .= 'Total space used: '.$total." mb \n";

    $remaining = ceil($resellerQuota - $total);
    $msg .= 'Remaining space: '.$remaining." mb \n";
    
    
}
else {
  $msg .= "No workee.\n";
}

        echo nl2br($msg);//to browser
?>

I've been tearing my hair out over this for over 4 hours now. Hoping someone can help!

[I'll Host It]

<?
system("du -sh /path/to/dir");
?>

If you're lazy, like me. Not the best if the domain is owned by another user or if you really want cpanel integration... will tell you a folder's size though.