limiting file uploads

[lives4him06]

using the code:

<?PHP
if   (is_uploaded_file($_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'])
) {
    copy($_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'], "../images/profiles/". $_FILES['userfile']['name']);
        echo "Success!";
} else {
    echo "Possible file upload attack. Filename: " . $_FILES['userfile']['name'];
}
?>
 

how could i limit the type of file to be either .jpg or .gif?

[dalecosp]

Check out the manual section on handling file uploads; you're going to want to compare $_FILES['userfile']['type'] to the strings "image/gif' and 'image/jpg' ...

[lives4him06]

Success!

if (($_FILES['userfile']['type'] == 'image/gif') or ($_FILES['userfile']['type'] == 'image/pjpeg')) 

above is the code that worked.

What are other parts of this array i might be interested in

ex: $FILES['userfile']['type'], $FILES['userfile']['name']

[dalecosp]

I suppose you could put, for testing only, the following in your "success" output:

print_r($_FILES);

and see what juicy tidbits there might be ... 😉