Digital File Upload?

[diggidydaz]

First off...Zen Cart rocks. I think that it is the best storefront solution out there.

My question is...is it possible to allow the customer to upload JPG or PDF files at the end of their order process?

I print business cards sometimes and I would like for a user to be able to upload it, then I receive and print it.

Any help with this would be great.

Thanks

[Ajeh]

You might consider loading a test site with a test database and the demo products so that you can see all of the features of Zen Cart as well as how they are setup and work ...

The Attributes allow for File uploads ...

[styledata]

I, too, sell customized products and have customers upload files. I set up an option and attribute to do this, and played around with it some. A small file works, a large file (4 megs on the test I ran) did not. Some of my customer uploads are pretty big! Is there a setting to control the upload size?
Thanks!

[masterblaster]

This restriction is most likly to be because of php limits. You would want to ask your host about that to change some settings.

[Ajeh]

There are 2 settings ... 1 is the Zen Cart maximum upload setting and the other is your server setting ...

Check the Configuration ... Maximum Values ...

Maximum File Upload Size
What is the Maximum file size for uploads?
Default= 2048000

[rickstorm]

Im working on the same problem, Thanks to Ajeh I setup the attributes for a upload button for each product, but I ran into the php.ini default 2 megs problem. I reseached this and this is what I learned...

You can overwrite global php settings by creating your own php.ini file, defining these settings within the file, chmoding the file to 755 and placing it within the executing scripts directory.

php.ini file information:

http://www.washington.edu/computing/...g/php-ini.html

Default php.ini file:

http://cvs.php.net/co.php/php4.fubar...ni-recommended

the only problem im having now is figuring out which directory the script is executing from.. any ideas anyone....
((waving))) hi Ajeh

rick

[Ajeh]

Try looking into controls via the .htaccess file as if you do not have a php.ini ... you do not have direct access to it via your hosting site server configuration ...

Or, contact your hosting site and tell them you need these limits raised ...

[fmoses]

If you're working on a MS Windows host, the standard file upload facilities max out at 4 MB. Worse than that, Windows buffers the entire uploaded file in memory before dumping it to a file. Chews up server memory space. Also doesn't have a progress meter. Some other solutions, all commercial near as I can tell, field calls to that mechanism with a dll which receives a chunk at a time and stores it to a file on the fly. Most provide a progress meter. Some allow multiple file uploads, recursive folder handling, automatic restart of interrupted uploads, etc. The max upload is generally 4 GB!

QUESTION: How could I integrate one of these solutions into Zen Cart pages and add the admin facilities for downloading users' files?

[tleonardo1]

I am VERY interested in how people gota roundteh 4MB limit...can someone post a summary of how that was done?

[diggidydaz]

I am VERY interested in how people gota roundteh 4MB limit...can someone post a summary of how that was done?

I got around the problem by changing both the Maximum file upload size as Ajeh suggested and by changing the restrictions on the php.ini file.

The funny thing is, one way worked on one server, and the 2nd way worked for the other.

Oh, just to note though...they were both on different linux servers. No windows