RE: [PHP] uploading big files with PHP

Quoting Angelo Zanetti <angelo@elemental.co.za>:

-----Original Message----- From: Thijs Lensselink [mailto:dev@lenss.nl] Sent: 25 July 2008 12:08 To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] uploading big files with PHP Quoting Angelo Zanetti <angelo@elemental.co.za>:

Hi all We are pitching to develop a website where the admin has to upload big

video

files but I'm not sure how this can be done as the file upload will most probably time out. How do current websites do it? Is there somehow a way to make use of FTP

to

transfer the files? Any links, help, advice will be appreciated. Thanks in advance Angelo http://www.elemental.co.za

Uploading big files should not be a problem. Make sure the some .ini settings are correct for you: max_execution_time = 30 ; Maximum execution time of each script, in seconds max_input_time = 60 ; Maximum amount of time each script may spend parsing request data max_input_nesting_level = 64 ; Maximum input variable nesting level ; Maximum size of POST data that PHP will accept. post_max_size = 8M The first 3 you can set with ini_set. You could of course use the ftp functionality available in PHP. http://nl3.php.net/ftp ----------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks Thijs, It does make sense to change the post_max_size value. But what if the file is for example a 100MB file or bigger. This probably isn't the best way to handle this? I'm trying to find the best practices to do this or is this totally the wrong way to go about this? Thanks again! Angelo

If the file is located on the client side. Then form based upload over HTTP is your only option really. FTP only comes in handy when the file in question resides on the server.