What are some alternative approaches to handling long upload times in PHP scripts?

When dealing with long upload times in PHP scripts, one alternative approach is to increase the maximum execution time and memory limit in the PHP configuration settings. This allows the script to run for a longer period and handle larger file uploads without timing out.

// Increase maximum execution time and memory limit
ini_set('max_execution_time', 300); // 5 minutes
ini_set('memory_limit', '256M');