Question

I have this snippet from my uploadify.php:

if (!empty($_FILES)) {
$name = $_FILES['Filedata']['name'];

$tempFile = $_FILES['Filedata']['tmp_name'];
$targetPath = $targetFolder;
$targetFile = rtrim($targetPath,'/') . '/' . $_FILES['Filedata']['name'];

$path = pathinfo($targetFile);

// this portion here will be true if and only if the file name of the uploaded file does not contain '.', except of course the dot(.) before the file extension
$count = 1;
list( $filename, $ext) = explode( '.', $name, );
$newTargetFile = $targetFolder . $filename . '.' . $ext;
while( file_exists( $newTargetFile)) {
    $newTargetFile = $targetFolder . $filename . '(' . ++$count . ')' . '.' . $ext;
}

// Validate the file type
$fileTypes = array('pdf'); // File extensions
$fileParts = pathinfo($_FILES['Filedata']['name']);

if (in_array($fileParts['extension'],$fileTypes)) {
    move_uploaded_file($tempFile,$newTargetFile);
    echo $newTargetFile;
} else {
    echo 'Invalid file type.';
}
return $newTargetFile;
}

Basically this is quite working. Uploading the file and getting the path of the file which will then be inserted on the database and so on. But, I tried uploading a file which file name looks like this,

filename.1.5.3.pdf

and when succesfully uploaded, the file name then became filename alone, without having the file extension and not to mention the file name is not complete. From what I understood, the problem lies on my explode(). It exploded the string having the delimiter '.' and then assigns it to the variables. What will I do to make the explode() cut the string into two where the first half is the filename and the second is the file extension? PLease help.

Answer 1

Don’t use explode, use a function designed for the job: pathinfo()

$ext = pathinfo($_FILES['Filedata']['name'], PATHINFO_EXTENSION);