Re: comparison operators
| From: | Christian Reiniger | Date: | Mon, 21 May 2001 11:27:33 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: comparison operators | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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On Monday 21 May 2001 08:03, Heidi Belal wrote:
> I have a form where i let people choose a file to
> upload, but i want to limit them to image files only.
> So i want to only allow the .gif and .jpg to be
> uploaded. What i tried doing was this:
> if ($filename_type == "image/gif")
> -- upload file
> otherwise give an error message!
>
> but for some reason this doesn't work. It uploads any
> kind of file without complaint! So what am i doing
> wrong? Is there another operator to compare strings
> for instance? Or what is the problem?
== is perfectly fine for string comparison. Try doing a
echo "'$filename_type'";
and (generally) a phpinfo ();
to see what's passed to your script.
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Christian Reiniger
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those who cannot, are fools,
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