PHP is executed after POSTed data has been transmitted to the server. If you were to upload a 1GB file, then it would be up to your web server to stop the upload when it reaches your limit. This is why you see your web browser run and complete the upload before it fails.
After the data is uploaded, then the web server will execute PHP. The php.ini
settings are used to see if the posted data exceeds the allowed limit. If it does, then PHP will reject it.
If the file is uploaded via a posted form, then the post_max_size
is checked. It doesn't matter if the form submitted a file attachment, or just contains a large amount of data. PHP will check this parameter to see if the posted data is too large.
set_time_limit(0);
will not resolve issues related to long upload times. Since the web server does not execute PHP until all the posted data is received. If there is a problem during the sending of the data to the server, then the issue may be in the web server.
Filezilla
is a FTP/SFTP/FTPS client and has nothing to do with PHP.