[pmwiki-users] UploadMaxSize - correct units?
Patrick R. Michaud
pmichaud at pobox.com
Thu Jul 10 09:55:28 CDT 2008
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 01:25:12AM -0700, adam overton wrote:
> is the math of this correct?
> this is what's on the 'upload variables' page: http://www.pmwiki.org/
> wiki/PmWiki/UploadVariables#UploadPrefixQuota
>
> $UploadMaxSize
> Maximum size for uploading files (50000 octets by default)
>
> Units are in bytes.
> 100K: 100000;
> 1MB: 1000000;
> 1GB: 1000000000;
> 1TB: 1000000000000;
>
> i'm getting mixed up because I also see notes on the UploadsAdmin
> page insisting that the following is correct:
>
> 100K: 102400;
> 1MB: 1048576;
> 1GB: 1073741824;
> 1TB: 1099511627776;
>
>
> the math i'm finding on the web is also confirming the latter...
> wondering which one to choose...
It doesn't really matter which interpretation you choose. Whatever
value is placed in $UploadMaxSize willl be the maximum number
of bytes allowed for an upload. So, if you set $UploadMaxSize
to 1000000, then the maximum upload size is a million bytes, period.
Whether someone chooses to call that a "megabyte" is irrelevant.
Personally, I've never thought that listing the unit conversions
is all that useful in the documentation pages. Certainly I would
never expect to be able to have gigabyte or terrabyte uploads --
IIRC, PHP's upload feature can't support it.
Better in each case would probably be to provide examples than
to try to quote conversion factors:
$UploadDirQuota = 102400; # limit uploads to 100K
$UploadDirQuota = 1048576; # limit uploads to 1 MB
$UploadDirQuota = 10485760; # limit uploads to 10 MB
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