HTML Accept Field

slevytam

Hi,

I know this is a bit of a stupid question but I just need some syntax help.

What would I set the ACCEPT field to if I want the file field to upload only PDFs and DOCs.

Thanks,

--SL

cgraz

If i'm not mistaken, the file types are

application/pdf
application/msword

So you'd run an if using $_FILES['userfile']['type'] (http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.php)

So something like

// PDF
if($_FILES['userfile']['type'] == 'application/pdf') {
   echo "File is PDF";
}

// Word Document
if($_FILES['userfile']['type'] == 'application/msword') {
   echo "File is Word Document";
}

Cgraz

slevytam

Thanks for your reply. Is there anyway that I could force this client side.

Would something like this work?

Thanks again,

--SL

cgraz

When they click browse, you may be able to allow them to only browse for a certain filetype. I think I've seen this done before, but I'm not sure how to do it. I'd search the net and see what you can find. I'll let you know if I run across anything.

Cgraz

slevytam

Thanks,

I could figure it out for one but not two...

--SL

cgraz

You got it to work with one? I played around with it and didn't even get it to only say that specific filetype. I did a search on htmlgoodies, and according to him, the ALLOW attribute is worthless (http://www.htmlgoodies.com/attachp2.html). You'll have better luck verifying it server-side.

Cgraz

slevytam

Well, thanks for trying. Appreciated.

I don't know about that article though. Allow is not part of the input tag so it definately won't work. It is supposed to be accept.

http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/forms/input.html

--SL

nickel

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