Topic awaiting preservation: Where is this variable getting set? (Page 1 of 1)

Okay, realizing I've looked at this thing so long I'm going cross-eyed.... (and now, so has Emperor)

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Here is the (stupid) problem:

a) I can't, for the life of me, determine where $the_file_type is getting set. Yet it works.

Some info on the script.
I have it set to only allow .jpg, .gif, and .pdf. If I don't specify a $type in the URL, it will take ANY of these three. If I specify $type, it will ONLY take that type. The script then moves and renames the file to $type/$id.$ext

Everything works fine. Except I can't see where that damned variable is getting set. 90% of this is my code, but 10% is reverse-engineered, and I must be overlooking something. I'm just cleaning up the code a little and adding some features before I roll this into a content management system.

Thanks!

Pugz, it's a magic variable that gets set automatically when you upload a file

PHP has a way of handling files where whatever the name is of the input field is you get 3 magic variables automatically set

the_file_size
the_file_type
the_file_name

(for clarity sake if anyone else is watching, it's what ever you name the file field then "_size" pugz named it "the_file" so he gets "the_file_type")

This method is a bit deprecated, you should access these vars like so $HTTP_POST_FILES['the_file']['type']




.:[ Never resist a perfect moment ]:.

[This message has been edited by bitdamaged (edited 08-17-2002).]

Ahh...ok. So I'm not going crazy (or at least crazier).

Thanks!