[PHP] FTP Site
Hi, I'm building a site for a client that has a need to allow their users to upload large files (up to 100mb or more) and store them on the server. I've never had a need to work with PHP's FTP functions until now and, before I go reading the manual to learn how, I wanted to see if this something that I can handle with just PHP, or if I'm going to need to adopt a third party Ajax app or something like that? Any thoughts or even a point in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Ben
Re: [PHP] FTP Site
Ben Miller wrote: Hi, I'm building a site for a client that has a need to allow their users to upload large files (up to 100mb or more) and store them on the server. I've never had a need to work with PHP's FTP functions until now and, before I go reading the manual to learn how, I wanted to see if this something that I can handle with just PHP, or if I'm going to need to adopt a third party Ajax app or something like that? Any thoughts or even a point in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, The PHP FTP functions are for client access to a remote server, not so that PHP can act as an FTP server. To resolve the issue you'll have to either give them FTP access, SSH access, or allow huge uploads. If you insist on doing it via PHP, you can use a .htaccess configuration in the directory containing the upload script to override the upload/post maximum sizes for PHP. Similarly, you'll need to increase max execution time. Since these are clients, I presume they have been authenticated first (otherwise you're opening yourself up to DoS). Alternatively you could use a Flash plugin or Java applet to facilitate the upload. Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] FTP Site
I think you will need the help from a client side app, like java applet or flash, php can transfer file from your web server to your ftp server but people will have difficulty uploading file via bare browser On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Ben Miller biprel...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm building a site for a client that has a need to allow their users to upload large files (up to 100mb or more) and store them on the server. I've never had a need to work with PHP's FTP functions until now and, before I go reading the manual to learn how, I wanted to see if this something that I can handle with just PHP, or if I'm going to need to adopt a third party Ajax app or something like that? Any thoughts or even a point in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Ben -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] FTP Site
On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 15:21 -0500, Robert Cummings wrote: Ben Miller wrote: Hi, I'm building a site for a client that has a need to allow their users to upload large files (up to 100mb or more) and store them on the server. I've never had a need to work with PHP's FTP functions until now and, before I go reading the manual to learn how, I wanted to see if this something that I can handle with just PHP, or if I'm going to need to adopt a third party Ajax app or something like that? Any thoughts or even a point in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, The PHP FTP functions are for client access to a remote server, not so that PHP can act as an FTP server. To resolve the issue you'll have to either give them FTP access, SSH access, or allow huge uploads. If you insist on doing it via PHP, you can use a .htaccess configuration in the directory containing the upload script to override the upload/post maximum sizes for PHP. Similarly, you'll need to increase max execution time. Since these are clients, I presume they have been authenticated first (otherwise you're opening yourself up to DoS). Alternatively you could use a Flash plugin or Java applet to facilitate the upload. Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP Flash or Java are the best way to go for this. The browser isn't good for large file uploads, I've had too many fail when the files got too large, even when the server was set up to allow them. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
Re: [PHP] FTP Site
The only 1 i ever got to work properly for files 100 mb is http://jumploader.com/ It's java, and free. On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Ben Miller biprel...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm building a site for a client that has a need to allow their users to upload large files (up to 100mb or more) and store them on the server. I've never had a need to work with PHP's FTP functions until now and, before I go reading the manual to learn how, I wanted to see if this something that I can handle with just PHP, or if I'm going to need to adopt a third party Ajax app or something like that? Any thoughts or even a point in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Ben -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] FTP Site
Ben Miller wrote: Hi, I'm building a site for a client that has a need to allow their users to upload large files (up to 100mb or more) and store them on the server. I've never had a need to work with PHP's FTP functions until now and, before I go reading the manual to learn how, I wanted to see if this something that I can handle with just PHP, or if I'm going to need to adopt a third party Ajax app or something like that? Any thoughts or even a point in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, You might want to look at how the mozilla add-on firefogg does it. They have server code example for php. Basically it splits the file up into chunks (as it encodes it but encoding isn't your concern) and when a chunk is received, message is sent back to the client telling the client it is OK to send the next chunk. It may be dependent upon browser functionality though, since it is the browser that splits the large upload into smaller manageable chunks. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
