file upload issue: no post data

anakadote

I'm having an issue where if, in an HTML form, the cumulative uploaded file size is more than ini setting upload_max_filesize, both $POST and $FILES arrays come back empty. Due to this, I can't even access $_FILES['name']['error']. Any suggestions?

Exangelus

Well you can suppose the error is the filesize. You're saying cumulative file size so I suppose you're uploading multiple files at the same time?
If so, is it an option to upload them one by one?

anakadote

Yes, the root of the issue in this case is definitely file size. However, in order to accurately target the cause of the error in every case I need to access $_FILES error data to confirm. It seems as if the server completely kills the request and clears all request data, as opposed to just stopping it. This is what I need to find a work-around for.

Exangelus

Well I just checked the manual and it says even tough files are too large this should indeed be in the $_FILES var.
http://nl.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.errors.php

Can you post the code your using, and did you turn on error reporting to E_ALL?

anakadote

My point exactly. And yes, error_reporting is set to E_ALL.

bradgrafelman

You're probably exceeding post_max_size as well, which means PHP discards all POST'ed data rather than process it.

If this is the case, I'm not sure how to solve the issue other than increasing the value of this directive. Once PHP throws away the POST data, there's no way (that I can see) to tell if anything was ever POST'ed at all (can't access raw POST data if the form type is "multipart/form-data", as in the case of file uploads).

anakadote

That's the ticket. Thanks.