Movable Type Importer limited by browser-based upload

[markjaquith]

The Movable Type importer requires you to upload a file via a browser-upload form. This is limited to 2Mb on many PHP installs. Many MT export files are larger than this (I have one that is more than 50Mb). It would be nice if there were also an option to upload a file with a pre-determined name (mt-export.txt) to /wp-content/ and have that be used. I think that's how it used to work.

[rob1n]

+1.

[foolswisdom]

Somewhat similar issue for WordPress WXR importer where you have to increase post_max_size and upload_max_filesize to very large values for the single import operation.

[markjaquith]

First swing (trunk)

[markjaquith]

Okay, mt-import.001.diff is my first swing. It's pretty hacked together, but it seems to be working. If we're having this issue with other importers, we might consider making a standardized way of doing this so we can implement it in other importers.

[markjaquith]

(In [5531]) Allow MT Importer to use FTP-uploaded file (to get around php.ini-set file upload size limit). fixes #4284

[foolswisdom]

I had applied this patch both locally and on wordpress.com and it worked great!

[matt]

Thanks for bringing this back, I really missed the feature that let you mod the file and not do an upload.