How to get the file type category in php

Question

How could I get the file type category only?

For example:

    $fileType = $_FILES['userfile']['type'];
    echo $fileType;

In this code, it displays image/jpeg. Now what I want to get is only the image without the jpeg.

Same also with all of this:

Displays image only if the file type is:

• image/png
• image/gif
• image/bmp

and displays text only if file type is:

• text/html
• text/plain
• text/css

and so on, with the other file type..

Any help is highly appreciated. Thanks

Answer 1

Ugly, and may not work on all file types:

$type = explode('/', $filetype)[0];