Any idea on how big the file size could one file uploaded using php and html5?
And
Is there any suggestions on good components or example to do this?
thanks a lot!
On the server side the maximum upload size is limited by php post_max_size and upload_max_filezize.
Also your webserver can limit the maximum size of your post body. E.g. Apache limitrequestbody which defaults to 0 = unlimited or nginx client_max_body_size which defaults to 2MB
If you are planning to upload large files using html5 you might want to have a look at file.slice which is supported by all modern browsers
Support for .slice in the File API
Firefox supports the Blob API and the .slice APIs that come with it. This can help people who want to process parts of large File objects from JavaScript without having to load the whole file into the memory. People who reliably upload large files can use some server and JS code to split a large file into sections and upload chunks, including re-retrying failed sections, or even uploading several sections, in parallel.
Using this, you could upload giant files in chunks and merge them on the server-side again.
EDIT
Found this great article which explains html5 uploads by streaming via xhr
http://www.webiny.com/blog/2012/05/07/webiny-file-upload-with-html5-and-ajax-using-php-streams/
This procedure has a very low memory footprint, you might still run into the webserver and php upload limits because this is done with a single request. The code should give you an idea on how the whole technology works.
PHP's pretty crappy when it comes to large file uploads, particularly because you have to a memory limit higher than the size of the file. As well, Apache on 32bit systems tends to have a 2gig file limit itself, so even if PHP could handle the upload, Apache will choke.
You need to set the value of upload_max_filesize and post_max_size in your php.ini :
; Maximum allowed size for uploaded files.
upload_max_filesize = 40M
; Must be greater than or equal to upload_max_filesize
post_max_size = 40M
If you can't change your php.ini, you're out of luck. You cannot change these values at run-time; uploads of file larger than the value specified in php.ini will have failed by the time execution reaches your call to ini_set.
See the Description of core php.ini directives.
The maximum size of an uploaded file is integer.
When an integer is used, the value is measured in bytes
The maximum file size value is defined in phi.ini file.
search this in php.ini
Maximum allowed size for uploaded files.
upload_max_filesize = 32M
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I'm implementing a file upload system using cakephp. I'm using php 5.2.5 and cakephp 1.2. Below I have mentioned the maximum file sizes that I have given in php.ini.
post_max_size = 2000M
upload_max_filesize = 1800M
memory_limit = 3328M
But I need to upload 5 GB files and when I change the file upload sizes to 5GB in php.ini web server doesn't respond.
Is there any method that I can use to upload 5 GB files to my system? and How can I calculate the maximum size of the file that I can configure in php.ini.
By migrating to php 5.3 will I able to support more capacity for file uploading.
Cheers !!!!
AFAIK uploading 5GB with a HTML-Form is really big. Don't forget that the binary data is normally read in raw 8-bits but the TCP/IP stack only support a 7-bit charset to transport. So all your data is wrapped in another code BASE64 which adds about 40% overhead to your data so it's 6+ GB. I dont't know if upload size should include this overhead but you can try to add this to post max size because according to the documentation post max size should be double the size of upload size. I also to suggest you to use lighttpd + fast-cgi.
And you are going to upload those 5GB using a webform? It would take ages. You should probably use FTP.
Set the max_input_time variable as well, otherwise PHP may exceed the input time while reading the uploaded file, and stop execution.
Use flash uploader (uploadify may do the trick) - because the browser will hang up and won't wait for the server response.
Bottom-line:
Do I need to be concerned about setting post_max_filesize >> memory_limit?
Details:
This answer suggests that uploaded files do not need to fit within php’s memory_limit. The php docs suggest that the entire post should fit within php’s memory limit.
I find the docs surprising and I’m hoping someone can elaborate. For example take the following php configs:
; config A
memory_limit = 50M
upload_max_filesize = 100M
post_max_filesize = 1000M
max_file_uploads = 10
and
; config B
memory_limit = 50M
upload_max_filesize = 10M
post_max_filesize = 1000M
max_file_uploads = 100
With these configurations I’d expect to be able to:
upload 10x100mb files to server A, and 100x10mb files to server B. I would also expect that: Working with any one of the 10 files uploaded to server A is a problem (100Ms of file in a 50M bag…).Working with any 1 of the 100 files uploaded to server B is okay (10 < 50). While experimenting with less round but equivalently related numbers, I’ve found these expectations hold true.
This experience would lead me to say that "generally the memory_limit should be larger than the upload_max_filesize"; instead, the php docs say:
generally speaking, memory_limit should be larger than post_max_size.
Why and what happens if it isn't?
When my php code is executed I see no evidence that all of the posted files are in memory. It seems to me that all I’ve got is a $_FILES array of paths to files found exclusively on disk. Is php holding the whole post in memory at some point prior to my ability to introspect the environment? Do I need to be concerned about setting post_max_filesize >> memory_limit?
Aside:
Violating the manual's rule does not result in a grossly broken server (w/ php5.3 apache2.2 debian 6).
PHP will accept uploaded files that are individually smaller than upload_max_filesize and together take less than post_max_size bytes. The PHP documentation is wrong with regard to memory_limit which does not need to hold the file contents posted.
The following configuration works with both Apache2 module and CGI, and accepts files smaller than 1G.
upload_max_filesize = 1G
post_max_size = 1G
memory_limit = 32M
Do I need to be concerned about
setting post_max_filesize >>
memory_limit?
Only if you plan on reading an entire file into memory and the file that you read in is larger than the space you have allocated to PHP (i.e. memory_limit), in which case you'll run out of memory.
My own personal experience is that you HAVE to have a memory_limit higher than post_max_size and upload_max_size.
The post_max_size refers to the entirety of the POSTed data. This includes any form fields that may have been included with the file itself. The upload_max_size is the largest allowable size a file can be within that upload.
For instance. with a post_max_size of 10mb and a upload_max_size of 1mb, you could upload 9 files, each 1mb in size, Why 9 files? because part of the POST data is the file metadata - filename, mimetype, file size, etc... This all takes up some space, so your 9 files will actually take up 9.01megabytes or so. The 0.99 leftover is too small for another file, so you can't upload that 10th, even though it fits within the upload_max_size limit.
As for memory_limit, not only do you have to have enough "room" for the files that were uploaded, you have to remember that this limit applies to the script as a whole. A memory_limit of 10mb would allow for only a 9megabyte file to be uploaded, because PHP itself and all the associated code and libraries will suck up (say) 1 megabyte already.
Even though the files aren't held in memory - they get dumped out to temp files as soon as possible, they are passed in to PHP from Apache via STDIN. PHP has to read the files from that stream and copy them out to the temporary files you use in the ['tmp_name'] section of the $_FILES array.
For whatever reason, PHP seems to be basically doing "file_get_contents()" and slurping the files up in bulk, rather than doing a streaming-type copy. Hence requiring a memory_limit that exceeds the largest allowed file size.
I know you can control the size of uploads in PHP using $_FILES['userfile']['size'] > XXX
My question I suppose is performance related.
When you upload a file, my understanding is the whole file gets uploaded to a temporary location, and then you have access to $_FILES
What happens if a user attempts to upload a 10gb file? (as an example of a very large file)
If a large file is attempted to be uploaded, does this waste server bandwidth as the file needs to be uploaded before it can be processed/validated.
I know PHP has like timeouts etc but I'm curious if there is a performance impact from users attempting to upload very large files, even if (for example) the max file size is 2mb.
Is this a concern or something unavoidable and just to not worry.
Thanks.
Both apache and php have max-post limitation to prevent such behavior.
from php.ini:
; Maximum allowed size for uploaded files.
upload_max_filesize = 4M
; Maximum size of POST data that PHP will accept.
post_max_size = 8M
Actually, the [size] isn't there for control, it's simply the size of the uploaded file. By the time your script gets fired up to check that, PHP (and the webserver) have already handled the uploaded and applied their own internal limits (Apache's LimitRequestBody, PHP's upload_max_size, etc...).
PHP will allow all uploads to proceed, if they've been enabled via the file_uploads INI setting. Since you can't really trust the client, the client-provided size will be ignored and the upload will proceed until it either completes or hits the upload limit. So, yes, it can waste your bandwidth.
If you allow uploads, then it can be abused. But, there's no real difference between someone uploading a 10gig file or someone doing a POST with 10gig of bogus data. Either way, you've got 10gig of data coming your way.
What is standard size to upload an image.When user are uploading a large image to my website upload time error is occurring.I am resizing image at the time of uploading also.I want to modify my code as if large image will go to upload then image upload should not occur.
So what is standard size of image to upload on server for any website ? So that way i will fix my code.
Thanks in advance
php.ini controls file uploads with several configuration directives.
file_uploads controls whether uploading files is allowed. Yes, 1 is the default.
upload_tmp_dir is the temporary directory used for storing files when doing file upload. Must be writable by whatever user PHP is running as. If not specified PHP will use the system's default. The default is NULL.
upload_max_filesize is what you're interested in. It's the largest upload allowed. The default is 2M. If you supply only an integer, it is assumed to be bytes. Or you can change it using a shortcut, like this:
upload_max_filesize = 10M
max_file_uploads is the max number of files that can be uploaded simultaneously. The default is 20.
Another setting that affects uploading files is the max size of POST data which is controlled with post_max_size.
If you do not need / want to change your php.ini file, you can set these values for the duration of your scripts execution using string ini_set ( string $varname , string $newvalue ).
This returns the old value if you succeeded in changing the value, and it returns false if the change didn't succeed. So, to change upload_max_filesize to 10M you could do :
if ( ini_set('upload_max_filesize', '10M') )
{
// Do stuff that requires big files to be uploaded
}
As a foot note to changing these memory values:
PHP allows shortcuts for bit values, including K (kilo), M (mega) and G (giga). PHP will do the conversions automatically if you use any of these. Be careful not to exceed the 32 bit signed integer limit (if you're using 32bit versions) as it will cause your script to fail.
Most times php is configured to accept no more the 2mb files.
Check here for solution
For the memory problem try:
ini_set("memory_limit","80M"); //or any amount of ram but do not go to high
Your thumbnailer probably uses to much ram because of the high resolution of your image.So giving more memory to php is a quick hack to make it work. But big enough images will still crash.
Hi im quite new to PHP, i have created a form for very large csv files to be uploaded to my server. Some one mentioned to me that the browser can time out due to the uploading file being to big, is this true? and if so, can it be prevented?
Thanks for your help!
You need a proper value for the following php.ini settings:
max_input_time (not max_execution_time!)
upload_max_filesize
post_max_size
and maybe
memory_limit
There are some configuration directives that can cause large uploads to fail if their values are too small:
PHP
max_input_time Maximum time in seconds a script is allowed to parse input data, like POST, GET and file uploads
upload_max_filesize Maximum size of an uploaded file.
post_max_size Maximum size of post data allowed.
Apache
TimeOut Amount of time the server will wait for certain events before failing a request
LimitRequestBody Restricts the total size of the HTTP request body sent from the client
There are probably some more than this.
A good way to work around the poor handling of large file uploads in php, is to use an uploader like JUpload which will split the file into chunks before sending them. This also has the benefit for your users that they get a proper progress feedback while uploading, and they can upload multiple files in one go.
I was able solve this problem using the following settings, you could use different values but you get the idea:
For my server, I put these lines in a ".user.ini" file inside the script directory, your server may look for a different file, if you do a phpinfo('user_ini.filename') on the server it will spit out the file you need to put your values in
max_execution_time = 1800
max_input_time = -1
post_max_size = 100M
upload_max_filesize = 100M
memory_limit = 256M
When uploading very large files, you have to change 4 configuration variables:
upload_max_filesize
post_max_size
memory_limit
time_limit
Time limit may be increased at runtime with set_time_limit().
A script is allowed to run, by default, for something like 30 seconds. You can use the set_time_limit() function to alter this. Also, if your user will need to upload large files, you'll need to change the post_max_size and/or the upload_max_filesize values in your php.ini file.
Also, if you want to just extend your timeout limit globally, you can change max-execution-time in php.ini.
Yes it is true. File upload is done through a POST request and requests in general are subject to timeout. You should be able to reconfigure your environment for a longer request timeout.
It's not just timeouts that can cause problems. There are some limits on the maximum size of file that can be uploaded. These limits can be changed in the php.ini file:
post_max_size
upload_max_filesize
memory_limit
Check out http://uk.php.net/ini.core for details.
My answer is not directly related to your original question, but if you have a reverse proxy load balancer in front of your PHP script, the load balancer can timeout or block large uploads. Always check your load balancer's configuration if you support file uploads. Just like PHP, most load balancers default settings for uploads are pretty small.
If changing any of the above parameters doesn't seem to make any difference, it can be that a html form somewhere contains the name MAX_FILE_SIZE as a hidden field.
<input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="10000000">
In the example above, any file over 10MB will not be uploaded.