XF 1.5 Getting around image size upload limits?

[Okenyon]

So we have a forum that will rely largely on people uploading images.

Most of the members won't be tech savvy so will be taking image from their phones etc and uploading them.

We need to somehow get them to either optimise them or host them elsewhere.

Simply upping the image size limit is fine but eventually will cost us more in hosting.

Any suggestions or examples of a forum doing this nicely?

Thanks.

 

[Emre]

Create .user.ini

max_execution_time = 60
max_input_time = 60
max_input_vars = 1000
memory_limit = 512M
post_max_size = 512M
upload_max_filesize = 512M

upload to home directory



Server environment report;

 

[Okenyon]

Without sounding stupid, I'm not overly technical, can you explain the above please?

 

[toejam]

If you set the image width and image height it will resize the image automatically. Set the file size to unlimited.