Multiple file upload

Need Help
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Hi

I would like to upload many images (up to 200) with one form.
What is the best way to do that?
I imagine to have a form for selecting the images on my local client side, and then loading the files up one by one. How can I do that?
Would the CakePHP Upload Plugin 3.0 be helpfull for that?
I tried the normal way with XAMPP. It worked fine up to 19 images. With more than that, it didn’t work, $this->request->data is empty.
I am using Cake 3.7.

Thank your very much for any helpful idea.
Dorothee

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First of all, welcome to cake php! also, did u try with examples of the documentation? also, most important of all, would u please share of your code, so that we need to see what’s the error happening with the upload. Have a good day!

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PHP limits the size of uploads and POST requests (post_max_size and upload_max_filesize I think). Sounds like 19 images come under that limit, adding more goes over that limit so is rejected.

Worth checking anyway.

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Thank you for your answers.

I set the post_max_size in the php.ini to 0M which means, the limit is disabled.
That helped. Now I can upload 200 images!

Thank you very much, I am very happy.

Dorothee

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What you could do is use AJAX to send those files one by one.
This way you can bump up the POST limit to like 100MB (which is already a huge image) instead of 2GB.
Doing this also allows you to continue uploading even if one file fails.

For an example of how I did this view these pieces of code:

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Sounds like a very good idea! I will try this.
Thank you ver much.
Dorothee