jquery - Check for file extension before uploading

I am using uploadify for uploading files with Codeigniter. And before uploading the file I just have to check whether the file extension is correct is correct or not. I have tried with http://jquery.bassistance.de/ and also http://forum.jquery.com/

Bur didn't got proper result. Can anyone please tell me how can I do the same?

Thanks in advance...

Solution 1:

You can achieve this using JQuery

HTML

 <input type="file" id="FilUploader" />

JQuery

    $("#FilUploader").change(function () {
        var fileExtension = ['jpeg', 'jpg', 'png', 'gif', 'bmp'];
        if ($.inArray($(this).val().split('.').pop().toLowerCase(), fileExtension) == -1) {
            alert("Only formats are allowed : "+fileExtension.join(', '));
        }
    });

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Solution 2:

If you want to do it without a plugin you could use the following.

Javascript, using jQuery:

$(document).ready( function (){
    $("#your_form").submit( function(submitEvent) {

        // get the file name, possibly with path (depends on browser)
        var filename = $("#file_input").val();

        // Use a regular expression to trim everything before final dot
        var extension = filename.replace(/^.*\./, '');

        // Iff there is no dot anywhere in filename, we would have extension == filename,
        // so we account for this possibility now
        if (extension == filename) {
            extension = '';
        } else {
            // if there is an extension, we convert to lower case
            // (N.B. this conversion will not effect the value of the extension
            // on the file upload.)
            extension = extension.toLowerCase();
        }

        switch (extension) {
            case 'jpg':
            case 'jpeg':
            case 'png':
                alert("it's got an extension which suggests it's a PNG or JPG image (but N.B. that's only its name, so let's be sure that we, say, check the mime-type server-side!)");

            // uncomment the next line to allow the form to submitted in this case:
//          break;

            default:
                // Cancel the form submission
                submitEvent.preventDefault();
        }

  });
});

HTML:

<form id="your_form" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
    <input id="file_input" type="file" />
    <input type="submit">
</form>