Re: [PHP] FTP Site

[email protected] (Robert Cummings)
Newsgroups php.general
Organization InterJinn
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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.
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