how can I allow people to send my your photos???

[_jason_]

Right creativeretouch, if you are a customer on a hosting company and have your website hosted there, you can't look into the PHP.ini file for some certain reason...
So you call the PHP inbuilt info function, which lists you detailled configuration of the server.

It's looking like this:

PHP Code:

<?PHP
phpinfo ();
?>

An example of such a page that will be generated with the info function can be currently seen here:
phpinfo() example output

And yes, the upload limit is finally configured in the PHP.ini file by the server administrators.
Here a sample of the portion of the php.ini file from my local server: (with useful comments)

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; File Uploads ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

; Whether to allow HTTP file uploads.
file_uploads = On

; Temporary directory for HTTP uploaded files (will use system default if not
; specified).
upload_tmp_dir = C:\PHP\uploadtemp ; temporary directory for HTTP uploaded files (will use system default if not specified)

; Maximum allowed size for uploaded files.
upload_max_filesize = 20M

As you see, there is even the possibility to disallow uploads via PHP/HTTP at all!


Jason

[creativeretouch]

yes jason,

that's what I am trying to expain from the beginning.

This is my first post:
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download this script:

http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/at...5&d=1143972935

- this is a free working version. Description is here:

http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/sh...d.php?t=101466
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open this page in text editor:

multiple.upload.form.php

and change the size of a file to this value:

// set a max file size for the html upload form
$max_file_size = 700000000; // size in bytes

you should be OK.
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I am not a programmer, but I think this line

$max_file_size = 700000000; // size in bytes

tells to php.ini on the server to ignore default value and use my new one.

This script is written by pro programmer not by me

[_jason_]

...
NOOOO.

You can't modify the server side php.ini restriction with a script for some certain reasons!

This number merely limits the upload size from your website/web application. This is, you allow your users only a restricted filesize to upload ('cause probably your space is limited or you do not want the users to upload tonns of crap...). Please read all the code!

The global PHP limit remains unaffected with that if your server is correctly and securely configured.

Definately.

(I think, you never really tried to upload laaarge files with that script via HTTP protocol. If you did, you actually would know what happens: Files which are larger than the configured limit will be canceled by the server and usually land in the trash.)

Jason

[_jason_]

Look at the link I posted in my previous post.
http://austin.ispgate.biz/phpinfo.php

That server has an upload_max_filesize of only 2MB configured!
This means he can do what he want. He won't get uploaded larger files than that.

Jason

[creativeretouch]

OK

I prefer FTP ...

[_jason_]

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*smile*

[creativeretouch]

But on my server I tried 50 MB+ and it was working fine ...
Different server configuration.