Which is best when uploading Files

@bashy @JeffreyWay

Actually this is more the question of presentation to the user. When you use AJAX and for simplification a upload library that does some percentage processing etc. for you, you should go with AJAX since the user is not only seeing a loading symbol in the tab of his browser but can be guided by a status box/modal or something or a percentage element/progressbar.

Make sure execution time is for input data is set high... on slow upload speeds, this could still be reached if it takes longer than the max time.

max_input_time

I'd attempt to go straight to amazon in an attempt to get around issues that can occur when uploading large files to PHP, which include:

• Using a lot of memory (the amount of the file + normal amount needed for processing the request

And within php.ini:

• limits on max_input_time
• limits on max_execution_time
• limits on post_max_size
• limits on memory_limit (must be at least as large as your largest file+extra needed to process the request, and go larger if you can!!)
• limits on upload_max_filesize

@fideloper Yes, I am uploading directly from upload tmp folder straight to S3. Would go the AJAX way and also take note of setting the max_input_time in php.ini as @bashy recommended.

Thanks guys, always a pleasure :)

@fideloper Unless the POST action is directly to another server (AWS), it will still require those settings for the initial upload to the website site server?

This looks like a good example of what I was thinking: https://www.designedbyaturtle.co.uk/2013/direct-upload-to-s3-with-a-little-help-from-jquery/

You do a bit of server-side work to auth against S3, but javascript does the uploading directly to an s3 bucket.