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Hi how do i allow only word documents? And i mean both mime-type and extension? Right now i have these codes checking extensions for .txt files, how do i change it to accept only word docs.

if ($uploaded_type !=="text/plain")

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if($ext !== 'txt')
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    Just a note - you can't trust the supplied mime type or extension. Be sure to do some sort of validation on it if the type really matters. Commented Nov 22, 2010 at 17:52

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MS Word documents are application/msword or application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document mime types and doc or docx extensions.

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application/msword for .doc and application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document for .docx.

See http://filext.com/faq/office_mime_types.php

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I belive https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.finfo-file.php is what you are looking for

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Squadroo wanted the actual MIME type to check if the MIME type he gets (with that or a similar function) is correct.

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