I'm using Uploadify to upload an image to the server.
The image is uploaded, and placed in the temp folder of the web server.
Now I need to work with the file beore moving it to it's real location, and I have the following code:
// Get the filepath and filename from server temp dir
$sourceFile = $_FILES[ 'Filedata' ][ 'tmp_name' ]; // e.g. c:\server\path\tmp\php159.tmp
// Solution 1 for getting file extension
$fileExt1 = pathinfo($sourceFile, PATHINFO_EXTENSION); // <-- This only returns .tmp
// Solution 2 with getimagesize
list(,,$extension) = getimagesize($sourceFile);
$fileExt2 = $extension; // this only returns the number 2.
// Solution 3 with getimagesize
$img = getimagesize($sourceFile);
$fileExt3 = $img[2]; // this only returns the number 2.
I'm not using regex to read filename, because a user may name the file anything, so I have to read file data.
Any sugegstions anyone?
Well, first off $sourceFile should be $_FILES['Filedata']['name']
instead of $_FILES['Filedata']['tmp_name']
but only for your first solution.
Now regarding your solutions/problems:
pathinfo($sourceFile, PATHINFO_EXTENSION);
// should work now
getimagesize()
returns a constant indicating the image type in the second index
- same as point 2
Keep in mind that exif_imagetype()
returns exactly the same information as the second index of getimagesize()
, if you have access to this function it should perform way better.
Now for the image constants, the most common three are:
- IMAGETYPE_GIF = 1
- IMAGETYPE_JPEG = 2
- IMAGETYPE_PNG = 3
Checking is as simple as doing something like this:
switch (exif_imagetype($_FILES['Filedata']['tmp_name']))
{
case IMAGETYPE_GIF:
echo 'is a GIF';
break;
case IMAGETYPE_JPEG:
echo 'is a JPEG';
break;
case IMAGETYPE_PNG:
echo 'is a PNG';
break;
case default:
echo 'is something else;
break;
}
One more thing, it's better to use getimagesize()
/ exif_imagetype()
than to rely on the file extension, since the extension can be easily changed.
Your solutions #2 and #3 both work already. From the getimagesize() manual page:
Returns an array with 7 elements.
...
Index 2 is one of the IMAGETYPE_XXX constants indicating the type of the image.
So for a .gif then this should be the integer 2. To get the file extension use image_type_to_extension()
since you already are using the gd library. eg.
$img = getimagesize($sourceFile);
$fileExt = image_type_to_extension($img[2])
exif_imagetype() can determine a number of graphics formats, is fast and doesn't even use GD.
Edit: I see you are already using getimagesize() and have trouble translating the constants. The exif_imagetype() page linked above has a translation of all returned image types that should be valid for getimagesize() as well.