Increasing the Upload Limit of my PHP script

Question

I have a simple PHP script. Its used to upload users into the joomla tables. Basically it uploads users into joomla three main tables.

The PHP uploader sript works fine when the CSV is about 80MB to 100 MB.

It does not work or just nothing happens when the file size is 500MB or above.

How do i make the PHP script work to upload the CSV files of over 500 MB?

Do i actually change something in my PHP.ini settings or is there something else i could add in the script itself.

Thanks in Advance.

Gershon Herczeg · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-30 19:54:19Z

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in the .htcaccess file add the following:

php_value upload_max_filesize 500M
php_value post_max_size 500M

in php.ini add:

upload_max_filesize = 500M
post_max_size = 500M

answered Jul 30, 2012 at 19:54

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Matt Over a year ago

Are we fans of plagiarism or just forgetting to link to the source at drupal.org?

ametren Over a year ago

For two lines in .htaccess and two lines in php.ini? Are you kidding me?

ricardo Over a year ago

@Gershon Herczeg : let me try

Ryan Over a year ago

How would that be plagiarism these are facts not creative work

Gershon Herczeg Over a year ago

@Matt using your logic anyone who come to the this site and uses code from it is guilty of plagiarism, lol. So i got it from a source which i had bookmarked big deal..!

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Matt · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-30 20:08:24Z

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You have to change the upload_max_filesize in php.ini

edited Jul 30, 2012 at 20:08

answered Jul 30, 2012 at 19:53

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ricardo Over a year ago

i already tried ini_set()..let me check also the htaccess file as per Gershon Herczeg

Marc B Over a year ago

Can't change uploads limits via ini_set(). The script is executedly only AFTER the upload is completed - if the limit is too low, the upload is killed before the ini_set() is ever seen. This has to be done at the php.ini/.htaccess level

jcho360 · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-31 12:10:45Z

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I had the same issue long time ago with rails and mysql,

You have to consider 3 things when you want to upload a file:

Max upload file in PHP
Be sure that MySQL will save a big file.
Your browser will lost connection after a while uploading a file to your database if it don't receive any answer from the server.

I think that You handled the first 2, but to handle the 3rd probably you will need a upload progress bar to keep the session active. Actually you need some AJAX to keep the server and the client "talking" meanwhile the file still uploading.

edited Jul 31, 2012 at 12:10

answered Jul 30, 2012 at 19:57

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ricardo Over a year ago

yeah..let me see if can become a AJAX developer in a day :-)

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