Zend File upload: File exceeds the defined ini size

Question

Inside my form i define this file upload field:

$this->setEnctype(Zend_Form::ENCTYPE_MULTIPART);

$logo = $this->createElement('file', 'logo');
$logo->setLabel('Group logo')
     ->setMaxFileSize(5242880) // 5mb
     ->addValidator('IsImage')
     ->addValidator('Count', false, 1)
     ->addValidator('Size', false, 5242880)
     ->addValidator('Extension', false, array('jpg', 'jpeg', 'png', 'gif'));

However, no matter how small files I upload I get this error: File 'logo' exceeds the defined ini size.

The error message seemed pretty straight forward so I checked the php config (phpinfo() on the same exact page that handles the form)

• file_uploads: On
• upload_max_filesize: 2000M
• memory_limit: 128M
• post_max_size: 8M

While those values don't exactly make sense, they absolutely should allow me to upload files up to 8Mb but the upload always failes with the message from above. Even files smaller than 1Kb fail. I also tried removing all setters/validators but it still fails.

While searching for an answer I came across some posts that said that it was ajax' fault but this is a regular form, so now I'm stuck.

Update: I'm terribly sorry to have wasted your time, there was another unclosed form on the page which voided the multipart-declaration. Could have found that out sooner if I had tested with larger files rather than small ones :/

Markusmarl

Answer 1

Add enctype="multipart/form-data" in your form. It should solve your problem.

Caritacaritas

I added $this->setEnctype(Zend_Form::ENCTYPE_MULTIPART); (see my first post), in the html source that translates to: <form enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post" action=""> (thats whats actually in the source, so that shouldnt be the problem either) – Markusmarl

This answer solved it for me. I forgot to add enctype="multipart/form-data" and when I did, the file element started acting normally. – Rica

Thank you very much, I always have to forgot about that ;) – Callicrates

Answer 2

Add

enctype="multipart/form-data"

to your <form> element. Solved my problem.

Incandescent

Answer 3

if you are using script file to render your file , you need to retrieve the enctype info that you specified in form class from your script file. <form enctype="<?php echo $this->element->getAttrib("enctype"); ?>">

Ragsdale

Answer 4

Please check your php.ini file and increase upload_max_filesize. By default, it is 2M (2 MegaBytes). Also in order to be able to post file with size more than 2M you need to update value of post_max_size

Circe

Answer 5

Chances are that the php extension fileinfo is not activated.

Remuneration

Answer 6

Your size validator is incorrect. You should use this format:

->addValidator('Size', false, array('max' => '5242880'))

Your validator checks file's size == 5242880, NOT <= 5242880.

Caritacaritas

Just tried it, doesn't get it done. And its not the current validators triggering the message, as i said i tried removing all of them and the problem remains – Markusmarl

Yes. Sorry. See my another answer. – Caritacaritas

Answer 7

It looks like you're missing the destination:

$logo->setLabel('Group logo')
     ->setDestination('/var/www/upload')
     ...

You might want to make sure that the folder is writeable by your web server.

Alkalify

Hm, interesting. I just added it and now nothing happens - the validation on the upload fails, but without an error message. I set it to a directory that is chmodded to 777 (with absolute path) so that shouldnt be an issue. – Markusmarl

@skooli - You should try adding ini_set('display_errors', true); and error_reporting(E_ALL); in your file just in case errors are suppressed. There may be something else failing. – Alkalify

it's already set to E_ALL but there are no errors when I submit files – Markusmarl

NOTE: ->setDestination('/var/www/upload') is deprecated, use ->addFilter('Rename', '/new/destination/path') instead – Lulita

Answer 8

When I commented out the following I got the same error:

->setDestination($this->_config->folder->ugc);
->addValidator(Kvadrat_Form_Element_File::VALIDATE_COUNT, true, 1);
->addValidator(Kvadrat_Form_Element_File::VALIDATE_SIZE, true, 5 * 102400);

(I commented it out as was doing the file uploads separately with FormData)

So I uncommented it and it all worked again.

Fezzan