[TYPO3-dev] Max File Size / Upload Limit

[Benjamin Mack]

Hey guys,

have you ever noticed that you have to check two (or maybe more) places 
when you want to upload big files in TYPO3?

We have:

* PHP.ini
;Maximum allowed size for uploaded files.
upload_max_filesize = 2M

; Maximum size of POST data that PHP will accept.
post_max_size = 8M
=> don't know if this taken in account

* TYPO3 Installer
maxFileSize = 10240

* TCA
Upload Limit for Images
$TCA['tt_content']['columns']['image']['config']['max_size'] = 20000;

What do you think, can we consolidate something here? Because: I had the 
problem that I set the installer option to 30 MB but it did not work 
because the php.ini was wrong.
So if no one tells me a good reason, I propose this approach:

1) The option "maxFileSize" is going to get deprecated, and it is set 
automatically to a new function "getMaxUploadFilesize()" (that does a 
"ini_get(upload_max_filesize)") and change all places in the core from 
maxFileSize to this function, this option will be kept for a couple of 
more versions in core, but not in the installer options list.

2) For TCA: If no one sets a "max_size" limit for a configuration 
option, the "getMaxUploadFilesize" is used in general. Then, we remove 
the max_size from tt_content-images.

3) The new installer checks if the PHP.ini setting is set too low or 
could have a small area about uploads / limits / timeout limits etc.

What do you think?

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benni.
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