[wp-polyglots] The meaning of "File upload stopped by extension."

[Peter Westwood]

On 14 May 2009, at 20:35, Xavier Borderie wrote:

> I wondered about the very same thing this morning when translating the
> latest strings.
> It could also be a "missing PHP extension"...
>
> A quick look in poEdit sent me to:
> http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/wp-admin/includes/file.php#L234 
>  and
> http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/wp-admin/includes/file.php#L342
> ...which does not give any more context, but from there on you can
> find that page:
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.errors.php
> ...which is translated in a handful of language. Translations are not
> really any clearer, but at least they are as official as can be...
>
> Still, any better context, I'll gladly take.

As I was curious I dug a little deeper.

It seems that recent versions of PHP have had hooks added in to let a  
PHP Extension (such as APC) track file upload progress.

This message relates to the extension stopping the upload process.

So the basic gist is the upload has been blocked by the php extension.

Hope this helps
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Peter Westwood
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