MIME types

[ktsirig]

Hi!
I am trying to validate that a file submitted through a form is a TEXT file.
When I use $_FILES['userfile_PFAM']['type']=='text/plain' it works, but only for files with .txt extension.

But the user may also have a file containing text data and may not have given the .txt extension (for example I found that application/octet-stream also reffers to TEXT files).
Does anybody know which of the MIME types of PHP must I check for? The MIME types that reffer to TEXT I mean.

Thanx!

[Weedpacket]

Could be anything, really. The MIME type is just a suggestion from the browser. For example, you mention that "$_FILES['userfile_PFAM']['type']=='text/plain' works for files with .txt extension" - but that depends on the client sending it. If you want to check what a file really is you have to look at the file. (All characters <chr(128); isolated "\n" characters or "\r\n" pairs, etc.)

"Text file" is awfully vague, to be honest. "text/plain" is just any text file format that doesn't have any more specific text/ MIME type. In other words, anything other than text/html, text/xml, text/javascript, text/vnd.ms-word, ....