Limit filesize of images videos uploaded Membership Access

The problem is as you say, setting the limits in php and / or nginx (as i use) will limit it globaly.

Solution would be to use a flash uploader that runs on the client side that have parameters fetched when it starts what limits should be applied and then restrict it before posting the file to /upload.php on the server side.

If a normal post upload is used you simple have to check the posted size and determind if the file should be allowed or not, but the problem there is that the file needs to be uploaded first to the server consuming bandwith.

I think you can manage to modify the flash uploader if you have the source to built in a variable that sets how big the file can be for upload and when selecing a file, flash can see the file size and accept / reject it.

I only see 2 ways of this, Dolphin needs to build in limits of file size, that the normal post upload supports and that a modified flash uploader can handle this as well.

This problem has been in the back of my mind since I started using dolphin, really wish it was something they had taken into consideration when communities really thrive on uploaded media.

My bandaid fix, which I have yet to implement, is to run a cron job and resize all originals to say 1024x768 max. I just haven't perfected it to run on my VPS yet (targeting only the originals is proving difficult) - and it still doesn't solve the issue of the bandwidth used on the front end of uploading the files from the clients end, but with a relatively inactive community I'm too worried about that part yet.

Not sure on how to do this on membership levels yet, but i believe i found where to set sizes.

I believe in all newer versions of dolphin, file size limits in dolphin are obtained from the PHP INI max upload setting as per this code in inc/classes/BxDolFilesUploader.php at line 66 in the BxDolFilesUploader function

        $this->iMaxFilesize = return_bytes(ini_get('upload_max_filesize')); //max allowed from php.ini
        $this->sMultiUploaderParams = array( //Important! Should be override with necessary params
            'accept_file' => '', //Important! Current file non exist. Should be override with accepting file (addFile.php)
            'multi' => 'true',
            'auto' => 'true',
            'accept_format' => '*.*',
            'accept_format_desc' => 'All Files',
            'file_size_limit' => $this->iMaxFilesize, //Examples: 2147483648 B, 2097152, 2097152KB, 2048 MB, 2 GB
            'file_upload_limit' => '10',
            'file_queue_limit' => '5',
            'button_image_url' => BX_DOL_URL_PLUGINS . 'swfupload/images/XPButtonUploadText_61x22.png',
        );
    }


I have yet to test this to see if it affects photos as well. I think it does as dolphin shares a lot of things and i believe all uploaded files are handled by the same uploader functions.