Question

I was wondering is it possible to upload a very big file (over 60MB or so..) in small chunks by:

• using javascript to split the file up into small individual files
• concurrently send them to the server side
• use php to merge the small uploaded files together
• finally store them and do something with it..

is this possible?

reason i want to do is to overcome php’s restriction of maximum upload filesize available/allowed on my server – i know you can configure php ini and apache stuff but i’m not the administrator and he cannot do that for security reasons within my company..

Answer 1

It’s possible, but only in certain browsers. Here’s the documentation on the file api. I do not believe IE6-8 support this. Because of that when I needed to do this I had to write the front end that sends the chunks to the server in flash.