$_FILES array only has partial info

Question

Hello,

I'm trying to debug a very strange problem with the $_FILES array. When I try to upload a file, only the 'name' key is set, the type, tmp_name, etc. are empty, and it's returning error #1. For example:

Array
(
    [name] => test.doc
    [type] => 
    [tmp_name] => 
    [error] => 1
    [size] => 0
)

test.doc is a valid file, I can open it without a problem. This is happening to a bunch of files I tested; doc, pdf, xls, ppt, jpg. The only file types that works are txt and gif.

I'm getting this problem on both on CentOS 5.3 w/PHP 5.2.6, Apache 2.2.3 and Ubuntu 8.04 w/PHP 5.2.4, Apache 2.2.8.

I thought I may have been mime types, but I checked the mime types and all the common ones are available.

Any ideas? I've never had this problem before!

Thanks.

Answer 1

The error code of 1 means the file exceeds the maximum upload size set in php.ini.

All the various errors messages are explained here: http://php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.errors.php

Answer 2

According to the PHP documentation on file uploads, an error value of 1 (AKA UPLOAD_ERR_INI_SIZE) means:

The uploaded file exceeds the upload_max_filesize directive in php.ini.

You can try adjusting the upload-max-filesize setting.

EDIT: The correct syntax for specifying upload_max_filesize in megabytes is 25M, not 25MB. See the documentation on using shorthand for details.