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Codeigniter File Upload Validation of PPT and PPTX Files: 1 Answer

This document discusses a bug in Codeigniter where ppt and pptx files were not uploading correctly. The error message stated that the file type was not allowed. To resolve this, the mime.php configuration file needs to be edited to add the proper mime types for ppt and pptx files to the allowed file type array. This will allow these file types to upload successfully.

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Codeigniter File Upload Validation of PPT and PPTX Files: 1 Answer

This document discusses a bug in Codeigniter where ppt and pptx files were not uploading correctly. The error message stated that the file type was not allowed. To resolve this, the mime.php configuration file needs to be edited to add the proper mime types for ppt and pptx files to the allowed file type array. This will allow these file types to upload successfully.

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pptx files

$config = array(
'upload_path' => 'resources/lectures',
'allowed_types' => 'pdf|zip|doc|docx|ppt|pptx',
'remove_spaces' => TRUE,
'overwrite' => FALSE,
'max_size' => 0,
);

This is my config array for file upload,


and all files are uploading fine except
for ppt and pptx. I checked the error
message using the display_errors()
method, it said 'The filetype you are
attempting to upload is not allowed'.

php codeigniter file-upload

powerpoint

edited Dec 17 '17 at 1:31


halfer
14k 7 57 101

asked Jan 14 '15 at 16:15


Mubashar Abbas
1,928 14 26

1 Answer

This is a bug of Codeigniter.

Open application/config/mime.php

and replace line no 33 (probably)


with the following line:

'ppt' =>
array('application/powerpoint',
'application/vnd.ms-powerpoint',
'application/vnd.ms-office',
'application/msword'),

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array('application/vnd.openxmlformats-
officedocument.presentationml.presenta
tion', 'application/zip',
'application/msword','application/vnd.
ms-powerpoint'),

answered Jan 14 '15 at 18:02


Anindya Dhruba
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