Detect uploaded files

[Jankie]

Good morning everyone !

I have a form with an upload section.Current ly the form submits user input as normal(direct into database).I want if they upload some file,the file is detected and then they are sent a confirmation email instead.If no file uploaded ,they get a thank you page(as it is now) .This is to at least have some control in the uploads,as am getting some garbage uploads,leaving an upload form sitting vulnerable like that.
I hope if someone can share me the insight of how it can be done.
My gratitude in advance !

[pbmods]

This is to at least have some control in the uploads,as am getting some garbage uploads,leaving an upload form sitting vulnerable like that.
I hope if someone can share me the insight of how it can be done.

You'll be wanting to analyze your $_FILES array.

[Jankie]

Can you please elaborate on this a bit more ?

[pbmods]

Can you please elaborate on this a bit more ?

Sure. When you upload a file to a PHP script, PHP automatically stores information about the uploaded file in a superglobal array called $_FILES.

For more information, take a look at this page:

http://us2.php.net/features.file-upload

To take a look at your entire $_FILES array at a glance, simply include this code:

[code=php]
header('Content-type: text/plain');
var_dump($_FILE S);
exit;
[/code]

[Jankie]

Thank you very much !
This will surely get me started
off to implementation