Cheking the file extension

[Anon]

Hi,

I'm asking a user to upload a file and im checking to see if the file type is one of the allowed types. I have an array which is defined as:

$allowed = array(".jpg");
I then check to see if the file type is the same as the allowed type else I display an error message.

if(!in_array($file1_type,$allowed)) {
echo "ERROR";
exit;
}
The problem is that it always displays an error even if the file is of type jpg. the $file1 is the file variable I get from a form.

Your help is apprecaited.

Greg

[Anon]

have you checked the value of $file1_type?

[Anon]

You are checking the file type against the file extension.

I.E. image/jpg == .jpg which is false

Either change your array to use file types OR use the $file1_name to check the extension value after the last "." - jpg, jpeg, gif etc...