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!

Lich

I don't think PHP checks the MIME types, apache does. If you add something into a .htaccess file giving different file types to be treated as text files it may work, but then again, it would only work with the certain extentions you specify.

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tempest

ktsirig, all that is doing is checking the extension... a MIME type via PHP is simply derived from a file extension, nothing more...

You could check for non-printable characters in the file that aren't \n \r \t \0, etc..

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ktsirig

Thanx guys!