Question

When uploading files with a silly file size I’m getting the following PHP error:

Warning: POST Content-Length of 9999378 bytes exceeds the limit of 8388608 bytes in Unknown on line 0

Obviously the filesize is larger than the default PHP memory_limit, and as I don’t want users to be uploading files this large that is fine, however the error that it produces is not fine.

Is there a method of suppressing this error and show my own formatted error later on the page?

Answer 1

Use ini_set(). Replace xx with your needed value.

<?php
  ini_set('memory_limit', 'xxM');   
  ini_set('post_max_size', 'xxM');   
  ini_set('upload_max_filesize', 'xxM');   
?>