“The file you tried to upload is too large.” Error

With some server setups, the php configuration doesn’t propagate into the directory where the script is running. It could be because the php.ini file that you are editing isn’t in the right location. This may be something you need to ask your hosting provider about: how to make sure the php configuration values you are setting are active in the directories where WordPress is running.

I can tell the plug-in is getting the upload_max_filesize from PHP as I have edited it to see if the error message changed to match the changes I made the php.ini setting.

Is it possible to hardcode the check value in the PDb_File_Uploads.php so it doesn’t reference the upload_max_filesize and just uses a hard coded value (which will be below upload_max_filesize) so it uploads the file correctly?

Or am I barking up the wrong tree here and its not the upload_max_filesize value that is causing the error but something else? This is running on an IIS server I manage, so I have access to change anything needed to be changed.

Thank You!

I don’t know if this will fix the issue for you, but I discovered an error in the PDb_File_Uploads.php script, on line 104, the variable name should be $file, not $field_file

Looking at the code, the error above is unlikely to fix the issue for you because when the is_uploaded_file() function is checked, it will return false if php didn’t sucessfully upload the file, so it seems likely it is a configuration issue.

Changing how the script gets the upload size limit won’t fix this because this is not the reason it’s failing. I can’t actually tell you why its failing, php doesn’t provide that information. We’re just assuming its a file size issue because we’ve already checked other possibilities.

It may be helpful to look at the system logs to see what happened with the upload.

OK, I corrected the $file variable name and did some more investigating and made sure fileinfo is enabled in php.ini and now I am getting a different error.

Error on upload page: There is something wrong with the file you tried to upload. Try another.

Log File Errors:
[05/24/24 7:13pm UTC] Undefined variable $i in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\wp-content\plugins\participants-database\classes\PDb_File_Uploads.php on line 104
[05/24/24 7:13pm UTC] String offset cast occurred in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\wp-content\plugins\participants-database\classes\PDb_File_Uploads.php on line 104

This is how my Line 104 currently looks:
if ( filesize( realpath( $file[ ‘tmp_name’ ][ $i ] ) ) > ini_get( ‘upload_max_filesize’ ) ) {

Thank You,

This is expected because now that it isn’t erroneously saying the file is too large, we get the generic error message. This is because, as mentioned, we don’t know why the upload failed. This is something that is happening on the server level, so I suggest you check the server logs for anything that helps to explain what happened.