PHP Upload

lives4him06

I have two file upload forms. On the first i upload images and limit the file types to .jpg and .png with the following line of code:

 $type = $_FILES['userfile']['type'];
if (($type == 'image/png') or ($type == 'image/pjpeg'))
//assign file location etc

On the second upload form, i wish to allow the user to upload audio content. I would like to limit this content to .wma and .mp3. When attempting to upload the audio file for test purposes, so that i could retrieve the file type (ie: audio/wma or something of the like) i used the following lines of code:

 
$type = $_FILES['userfile']['name'];
echo $type;

this returns a null.

Is there a file type associated with audio files? If so what is it and what am i doing wrong?
If not then how can i limit my users to .wma and .mp3 files?

bradgrafelman

['name'] in your 2nd post should be ['type'] if you want the type, though if you're uploading a file the name shouldn't be null...

Are you using a different form to upload these images? If so, make sure the field name for the "input type='file'" has a name of "userfile", because that's what you've used in your 2nd code (for the audio files).

If you still can't get it, post all of your code or an extensive portion that pertains to these two uploads (instead of snippets here and there) and post a link to the script so we can test it out.

EDIT: Also, wma's are audio/x-ms-wma I believe, and mp3's are something like audio/x-mpeg.

lives4him06

$type = $_FILES['userfile']['name'];

was a typo, the code implemented was

$type = $_FILES['userfile']['type'];

and when that line followed by

echo $type;

is executed, a null is returned.

bradgrafelman

At this point, I'd love to have a link to this script, and more of the surrounding code if possible.

lives4him06

http://69.250.65.108/upload/?cmd

just run through the script as if you were to upload a music file...
if you want more of the code, ill be more than happy to post.

bradgrafelman

The ['files'] attribute is only determined by what the user's browser sends in the HTTP headers.

Try this code instead:

$type = mine_content_type($_FILES['userfile']['name']);
echo $type;

And let me know how that works.

Kudose

I just uploaded a music file fine.

MIME Types:

.mp3 audio/mpeg3
.mp3 audio/x-mpeg-3
.wav audio/wav
.wav audio/x-wav
.wma audio/x-ms-wma

bradgrafelman

Instead of checking MIME types.. why not check the extensions?

if(!eregi("(\.(mp3)|(wma))$", $_FILES['userfile']['name'])) {

// extension was NOT mp3 or wmv

} else {

// extension WAS mp3 or wmv

}

lives4him06

ahhhh of course!! thank you, ill implement that and let you know the results asap