[FX.php List] [OFF] Potential gotchas with uploading files?

[Bob Patin]

Good point about the filesizes; there are a couple of filesize  
settings in PHP that you'l want to bump up--max file size is one, and  
there's a 2nd one, but I forget the name now. If you look for 'max'  
after pulling up phpinfo() on a page, you'll find it. If I remember  
correctly, they're set to 2MB by default.



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On Apr 2, 2009, at 9:57 PM, Dale Bengston wrote:

> Hi Joel,
>
> The biggest headaches I've had with file upload have come from PHP  
> and Apache settings for file sizes and memory allocations. They're  
> set pretty low by default. Depending on what you're allowing for  
> uploads, this may not be an issue at all, but it got me. Also,  
> validate, validate, validate what's being uploaded.
>
> On Apr 2, 2009, at 9:15 PM, Joel Shapiro wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> I'm looking for thoughts on how complicated an upload-file site can  
>> be.
>>
>> I've got a potential new project that would involve people  
>> uploading files via the Web and then having those files accessible  
>> to FMP clients.  I haven't worked with uploading before, but I've  
>> successfully put together the basics of uploading files and moving  
>> them to a specified directory.  In my brief experimenting, though,  
>> I've already seen issues with access privileges of the uploaded  
>> files (on my development machine) and UPLOAD_ERR_NO_TMP_DIR errors  
>> on my regular web host.  I'm also aware that there are security  
>> concerns when uploading files to a server, and know that servers  
>> and php can be configured quite differently in different machines  
>> and environments (it's not yet determined if the site will be  
>> hosted internally or through an external FM host).  FWIW - I'd  
>> probably leave files in their directory(ies) on the web server and  
>> have the FMP clients get to them via their network paths, so I'm  
>> not very concerned about that part of it.
>>
>> For those that have worked with this, what kinds of problems can  
>> should I be ready for?  Could this be a big headache?
>>
>> TIA,
>> -Joel
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