File

Could you be hitting a php memory limit or php max upload limit?

Yeah I’ll check that!

; Maximum allowed size for uploaded files. upload_max_filesize = 32M

; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (8MB) memory_limit = 16M

What happens if you raise the memory limit to 40MB (assuming your host allows it)? How big is your file?

I have raised it to 32Mb and it seems to work fine. I am running on a MAMP server. I wonder if there is something fishy there?

I bring my PHP memory up to 40 or 60MB on all Expression Engine sites I work on. Between all the image processing, mods, huge templates with tons of conditionals, embeds, etc…. I tend to hit the 8MB limit on page loads or other processing quickly.

Ah my hosts have a 128Mb limit so I think I will follow suit!

I am having an issue getting this to work on the machine I use for development. It works great in the production environment hosted at Media Temple, but not so much on my laptop. I am doing my development on a Windows machine using XAMPP for Apache PHP and MySQL. The error I am getting is the following:

Image – There was a problem uploading ‘AquaBlue.jpg’.

“Image” is the name of my field. “AquaBlue.jpg” is the name of the image I am trying to upload.

I have been racking my brain all day trying to figure this out. Here are some things I have tried:

• Fresh EE Install
• Permissions on the uploads directory (I even went as far as giving ‘Everyone’ full control of the directory.
• I did the same thing as above on the php “tmp” directory
• I upped the max upload size and memory max in php.ini

Does anyone have any thoughts here?

2. If I turn on file rename, then upload 2 or 3 images, only the last image gets uploaded by 3 times!

This issue was driving me crazy so I decided to dig deep down into the extension and was able to fix this issue. The extension is generating a random filename using a MD5 hash based on the date down to the second and I think the server processes it so fast that multiple files end up getting the same name. So I ended up prepending the date with the filename. I am using version 3.1.1 of the extension.

Change the following

$file_names[$file_key] = $this->_code().$file['ext'];

to

$file_names[$file_key] = $this->_code($file_name).$file['ext'];

And…

function _code()
{
    return md5(date('U'));
}

should be changed to

function _code( $file_name )
{
    $myhash = $file_name.(date('U'));
    return md5($myhash);
}

Hope that this helps others!

2. If I turn on file rename, then upload 2 or 3 images, only the last image gets uploaded by 3 times!

This issue was driving me crazy so I decided to dig deep down into the extension and was able to fix this issue. The extension is generating a random filename using a MD5 hash based on the date down to the second and I think the server processes it so fast that multiple files end up getting the same name. So I ended up prepending the date with the filename. I am using version 3.1.1 of the extension. Change the following

$file_names[$file_key] = $this->_code().$file['ext'];

to

$file_names[$file_key] = $this->_code($file_name).$file['ext'];

And…

function _code()
{
    return md5(date('U'));
}

should be changed to

function _code( $file_name )
{
    $myhash = $file_name.(date('U'));
    return md5($myhash);
}

Hope that this helps others!

That’s awesome! I’ll change my extension to this straight away.

Guys, somebody “married” this extension with SAEF?

Guys, somebody “married” this extension with SAEF?

Are you asking if anyone has done so?

where are they registered? I’d like to send them a wedding gift.

I had the old version married with no problems, but upgrading to 1.6.2 and 3.1.1 I can’t get it working. I wrote a blog post on this very thing a while ago. note that it was for v2 of the extension not v3.

Sorry if this has been covered already, and I suspect the answer is ‘no’, but… Is there any conceivable way that it would be possible to add extra metadata for each file upload? The reason why is that I’d like to add a specific alt attribute value for each image. Also, I’m incorporating this with the Lightbox technique which requires a title attribute to create a caption for each image. As I say, I suspect there’s no feasible way of doing this, beyond going back to having multiple fixed custom text input fields (img1, img1_caption, img2, img2_caption, etc) Thanks, Dave

Just wondering if anyone has worked out a solution for ading unique captions to images upload via File?

I’m already using multi text (with 3 columns) for another field so I can’t use MultiText for that either…..

Any ideas?