PHP Upload

ltanner

Hi all, I have a client who wants a few PHP pages put onto his website that allow his customers to upload files of up to 30M to his soon to be webserver. As this is new territory for me, I have been looking at how to do this and problems that can occur. Tho I've got one question I need help with please!

His site is on a virtual hosting service that has PHP 4.2.2. Given the max_file_upload etc settings in php.ini by default only allow uploads of up to 2M, would it be the settings on the hosts server that would need to be changed here, or the settings on the webserver that the files are be sent (uploaded) to?

Two other ways I thought about doing this is to get his webserver configured to run his site from it, or by getting him to consider a dedicated server allowing him to configure it to his needs. Any thoughts on these??

Many thanks in advance as any help would be appreciated!!!

Leon

kelkar_mandar

Change max upload size on webserver

theeper

It is actually very easy to do this. If you are on a shared host, that is running in safe mode, it is difficult, but not impossible.

If you have access to the php.ini file, you will have to set the file_uploads=on and possibly modify the upload_max_filesize and the max_execution_time to allow for large files.

You will also need a directory that your PHP user (probably nobody or Apache if on a *nix server with PHP as an Apache mod) can write to, so you can copy your images into it.

Then you can do a simple HTTP POST of the image using the <INPUT TYPE=file> form field and copy the images into the proper directory with move_uploaded_file().

I hope this makes sense.