consider using the getimagesize function. http://us.php.net/getimagesize http://us.php.net/getimagesize the comments have some useful info on how to get the ima

consider using the getimagesize function. http://us.php.net/getimagesize http://us.php.net/getimagesize the comments have some useful info on how to get the image type. iirc, the problem using the file type string is that its not consistent.