Explode?

[Wolphie]

I'm pretty baffled at this. I'm not entirely sure why this isn't working:

 

$filetype		= $_POST['file']['type']; // getting the file type
$file			  = explode('.', $filetype); // exploding the string to return just the file type
$filename 	       = rand() . '.' . $file[1];

// renaming it and then adding the file type back to save the file

 

I'm trying to retrieve the file type seperately and then rename it.

[kenrbnsn]

What is your question? What are you trying to do?

 

Ken

[Wolphie]

*edited*

[revraz]

What is in this array?

 

$_POST['file']['type']

 

Why not just pull the last three characters of the string?

[Wolphie]

That's what i'm trying to do

[Wolphie]

Sorry, i just got extremely confused and made a typo. It's meant to be $_FILES['file']['name'];

 

I'm just tired, and been coding all day. Getting too much. -.-

[gin]

What's the error? I can't see anything wrong with that piece of code.

[pocobueno1388]

Take this for example

 

<?php

if (isset($_POST['upload'])){
   $name = $_FILES['uploadedfile']['name']; //The name of the file, EX - name.jpg
   $name = explode('.', $name);
   $ext = $name[1]; //The type of file/extension, EX - .jpg
   echo $ext;
}

?>

<form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="z.php" method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="100000" />
Choose a file to upload: <input name="uploadedfile" type="file" /><br />
<input type="submit" value="Upload File" />
</form>

 

You need to use the $_FILES variable to retrieve information about the file.

 

First take a look at this line

$name = $_FILES['uploadedfile']['name'];

 

Where it says "uploadedfile", that is where you need to put the name of the input, which in the example, comes from this line

Choose a file to upload: <input name="uploadedfile" type="file" /><br />

 

See if you can work out your problem by looking at that, if not just let us know.