Quoting Angelo Zanetti <angelo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
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From: Thijs Lensselink [mailto:dev@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: 25 July 2008 12:08
To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: uploading big files with PHP
Quoting Angelo Zanetti <angelo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
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
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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.
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