$_FILES array only has partial info

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I'm trying to debug a very strange problem with the $_FILES array. When I try to upload a file, only the 'name' key is set, the type, tmp_name, etc. are empty, and it's returning error #1. For example:

Array
(
    [name] => test.doc
    [type] => 
    [tmp_name] => 
    [error] => 1
    [size] => 0
)

test.doc is a valid file, I can open it without a problem. This is happening to a bunch of files I tested; doc, pdf, xls, ppt, jpg. The only file types that works are txt and gif.

I'm getting this problem on both on CentOS 5.3 w/PHP 5.2.6, Apache 2.2.3 and Ubuntu 8.04 w/PHP 5.2.4, Apache 2.2.8.

I thought I may have been mime types, but I checked the mime types and all the common ones are available.

Any ideas? I've never had this problem before!

Thanks.

user142162 · Accepted Answer · 2010-01-25 23:22:29Z

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The error code of 1 means the file exceeds the maximum upload size set in php.ini.

All the various errors messages are explained here: http://php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.errors.php

answered Jan 25, 2010 at 23:22

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Asaph · Accepted Answer · 2010-01-26 00:01:50Z

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According to the PHP documentation on file uploads, an error value of 1 (AKA UPLOAD_ERR_INI_SIZE) means:

The uploaded file exceeds the upload_max_filesize directive in php.ini.

You can try adjusting the upload-max-filesize setting.

EDIT: The correct syntax for specifying upload_max_filesize in megabytes is 25M, not 25MB. See the documentation on using shorthand for details.

edited Jan 26, 2010 at 0:01

answered Jan 25, 2010 at 23:22

Asaph

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8 Comments

Daniel Over a year ago

Sorry, I didn't mention that the files I'm trying to upload are very small <100KB. I have upload_max_filesize set to 25MB and post_max_size to 100MB

Asaph Over a year ago

Actually, looks like the daily vote cap is 30, not 35 like I initially stated. See here: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5212/…

Asaph Over a year ago

@Daniel: Perhaps the values in your php.ini are being overridden by either your Apache vhost config or at runtime. What is the output of echo "upload_max_filesize = " . ini_get('upload_max_filesize'); when executed in your file upload handling script?

Asaph Over a year ago

@Daniel: The syntax of "25MB" looks slightly wrong. Try changing it to "25M" in php.ini. See the following link for shorthand syntax: php.net/manual/en/faq.using.php#faq.using.shorthandbytes

Daniel Over a year ago

@Asaph, Oh man, that did it! I was totally blinded by it, post_max_size was properly set to 100M, but the value for upload_max_filesize was 25MB. Thanks so much!

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