Question

Symfony1 mime type validation results in wrong error message as it fails to validate the high resolution images. My validation codes in the validate.yml is as follows:

mime_types:       
      - 'image/jpg'
      - 'image/jpeg'
      - 'image/png'
      - 'image/gif'
      - 'image/bmp' 
      - 'application/pdf'       
    mime_types_error: The allowed file extensions are:jpg, png, gif, bmp and pdf

But if try to upload a high resolution image of size 2-3 MB, it throws the mime type error message like:

The allowed file extensions are:jpg, png, gif, bmp and pdf

though the file type belongs to .jpg. Can anyone tell me is this a symfony1 sfvalidator bug? And how can I overcome this?

Answer 1

Did you tried the normal sfValidatorFile ?
It’s used quite often in my sf1.4 app and I never had any issues.

$this->setWidget('file', new sfWidgetFormInputFile(array()));
$this->setValidator('file', new sfValidatorFile(array(
        'required'  => true,
        'path'      => sfConfig::get("sf_upload_dir").'/images',
        'max_size' => 5120000,
        'mime_types' => array('image/jpeg','image/pjpeg','image/png','image/x-png')
    ),
    array(
        'max_size' => 'Your file is too big',
        'mime_types' => 'This type of file is not allowed',
        'required' => 'Please choose a file'
    )
));

Use this in your desired Form class and customize the ‘mime_types’.

If this doens’t work you could try using Imagick.
I hope this helps!