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[rich]

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> Nice function, however, HUGE dilemma: the application that will use this
> function is designed to be fully portable, that is, it can run in Apache
> or IIS or anything that can run PHP.  That means everything in this
> application needs to run equally in any webserver that can handle PHP,
> including this function.
>
> This function works only if you're using Apache since it retrieves a
> specific file /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf that has a value I need that
> PHP itself cannot provide to determine the absolute limit of a request.
>
> So how do I write this for IIS or any other PHP-friendly webserver?

Do IIS and other non-apache servers impose the same limitation?

As the web server will normally be the layer above php you will have to
resort to such hackery using whatever configuration files (IIS uses the
metabase which IIRC is similar to the windows registry) are needed before
presenting any upload interface... basically it seems you're gonna be
writing custom code per web server variant... :(

rich


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> Nice function, however, HUGE dilemma: the application that will use
this=20
> function is designed to be fully portable, that is, it can run in
Apache=20
> or IIS or anything that can run PHP.  That means everything in this=20
> application needs to run equally in any webserver that can handle PHP,

> including this function.

Another huge problem is security.  The user that Apache/PHP doesn't
always have read access to the conf files... I know on all of my
platforms they don't.  This is not a solution, it's a hack.

> This function works only if you're using Apache since it retrieves a=20
> specific file /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf that has a value I need that=20
> PHP itself cannot provide to determine the absolute limit of=20
> a request.
>=20
> So how do I write this for IIS or any other PHP-friendly webserver?

And sure, it's totally not portable.

There's no solution here that I can see.  As part of installing/setup
directions for the application, you just need to mention these issues.
It's not possible to always make an application totally portable, and in
fact it rarely is.  Your application has some level of dependency that
your end-user has to be aware of.

H