Uploading with POST without errors!

Anon

Hiya everyone and esp. the developers of PHP

Can somebody please tell me how to avoid the message "Warning: Max file size of 2097152 bytes exceeded - file [file] not saved in Unknown on line 0" when uploading using POST?

A lot of people is asking the exact same question so if some developer of PHP would please shed some light on it, I'd most certainly been VERY thrilled ...

PS : I haven't tried increasing the max_file_size in php.ini - there has to be a way to catch the error (which appears at the very top of the page!)

PLEASE HELP US!!

Yours sincerly

Jacob Kamp Hansen
- webmonkey at Portaltjenesten A/S

Anon

if your file size is exceeding what is stated in php.ini then you have to increase the max limit of file size in php.ini.

i cant think of anyother way.

Anon

I have found a "cure" to the problem, by using this form :

$kb = round($max_file_size/1024);
<form enctype='multipart/form-data' action='$PHP_SELF' name='upload' method='post'>
<input type='hidden' name='action' value='upload'>
<input type='hidden' name='MAX_FILE_SIZE' value='$max_file_size'>
File must not exceed $kb Kb.<br>
<input type='file' name='file' value='' size=30><br>
<br>
<input type='submit' name='submit' value='Add'><br;

The trick is where $kb is calculated and MAX_FILE_SIZE is set. If any files are above the $kb-limit. But ... there's a but!

What do I do if the user decides to try and upload a file larger than allowed. Then this error arise :

Warning: Max file size exceeded - file [file] not saved in Unknown on line 0

... and that is really bothering me. How do I catch that error (which is always shown at top of the script!) so I can make my own way of handling the error!?

PLEASE HELP ME and a couple of other souls!

Phew - that was a big one!