there are a number of alternatives to having them change the php.ini setup; if you are allowed to do settings from .htaccess, thats a good place, just put this in a .htaccess in the folder: php_value upload_max_filesize {new_bytes_max} (see http://www.php.net/manual/en/configuration.php for further details) This may not be possible (depending on their .htaccess restrictions), and you might try (if you run php v. 4+), in your script, to do ini_set(upload_max_filesize,{new_bytes_max}); (see http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ini-set.php for further details) hth, -- Johnny Jørgensen <aggie at aggie.dk> "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines"