Re: File Upload - post_max_size and upload_max_filesize in GBs

Sukhwinder Singh wrote:

Thanks for your reply. So you are saying I cannot do it using php. These files have to be uploaded locally but using web interface and I have to pass some parameters along with file upload to update the database after upload is successful. Also I have to rename the file after it is uploaded. Any utility which allows this?

Sounds like you need a Java applet. I have little experience with this, but I know that quite a few exist. I have no idea if any of them support sending meta data with the upload. I suggest you start Googling. -Stut

----- Original Message ----- From: "Stut" <stuttle@gmail.com> To: "Sukhwinder Singh" <ssruprai@hotmail.com> Cc: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 8:35 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] File Upload - post_max_size and upload_max_filesize in GBs

Sukhwinder Singh wrote:

I want to allow uploading of huge video files, which may be as big as 4 GB. But when I try to set post_max_size = 4G upload_max_filesize = 4G in php.ini, it doesn't work and everything in post (posted data) is ignored. I get a warning about size of posted data greater than some negative number. I read somewhere that php stores this data in integer. I have tested it on 64 bit system (php 5.1.6 installed on Mandriva 2007.0) as well as 32 bit system (php 5.2.2 installed on windows xp sp2). Value up to, I think, 2147483647 bytes or ( around 1.999.. gb) works We need to allow uploading of 4 GB files. Is there any solution.

Yeah, don't use HTTP. Seriously, HTTP is a crappy mechanism for uploading files, especially large ones. And by large ones I mean >~20MB!! You need to look into maybe a java applet, or just plain FTP/SFTP/SCP for files that big. HTTP was never designed to handle uploading files of that size. For a start there is no facility to restart the upload should it get interrupted and fail. -Stut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php