Check file type when form submit?

Question

I have the form having the follwing fields,

<form onsubmit="return checkcreateform()" action="/gallery/create" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
   <label>Type:*</label>
    <label for="type-1">
     <input type="radio" checked="checked" value="1" id="type-1" name="type">Image
    </label>
   <br>
   <label for="type-2">
   <input type="radio" value="2" id="type-2" name="type">Video
   </label>  
   <label class="itemdetailfloatL required" for="file">File:*</label>
   <input type="hidden" id="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="8388608" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE">
   <input type="file" tabindex="5" class="text-size text" id="file" name="file">
 <input type="submit" value="Create" id="submit" name="submit">
</form>

I want to validate before form submit. Here how can i validate if user select type as Image and upload video or select type as video and upload image ?

We can achieve this by javascript or jquery.Any quick way to validate this ?

Kindly help me on this.

Answer 1

Instead of using onsubmit, use jQuery's submit handler, and validate using some javascript like the following:

function getExtension(filename) {
  var parts = filename.split('.');
  return parts[parts.length - 1];
}

function isImage(filename) {
  var ext = getExtension(filename);
  switch (ext.toLowerCase()) {
    case 'jpg':
    case 'gif':
    case 'bmp':
    case 'png':
      //etc
      return true;
  }
  return false;
}

function isVideo(filename) {
  var ext = getExtension(filename);
  switch (ext.toLowerCase()) {
    case 'm4v':
    case 'avi':
    case 'mpg':
    case 'mp4':
      // etc
      return true;
  }
  return false;
}

$(function() {
  $('form').submit(function() {
    function failValidation(msg) {
      alert(msg); // just an alert for now but you can spice this up later
      return false;
    }

    var file = $('#file');
    var imageChosen = $('#type-1').is(':checked');
    if (imageChosen && !isImage(file.val())) {
      return failValidation('Please select a valid image');
    } else if (!imageChosen && !isVideo(file.val())) {
      return failValidation('Please select a valid video file.');
    }

    // success at this point
    // indicate success with alert for now
    alert('Valid file! Here is where you would return true to allow the form to submit normally.');
    return false; // prevent form submitting anyway - remove this in your environment
  });

});

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<form action="/gallery/create" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
  <label>Type:*</label>
  <label for="type-1">
     <input type="radio" checked="checked" value="1" id="type-1" name="type">Image
    </label>
  <label for="type-2">
   <input type="radio" value="2" id="type-2" name="type">Video
    </label> <br />
  <label class="itemdetailfloatL required" for="file">File:*</label>
  <input type="hidden" id="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="8388608" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE">
  <input type="file" tabindex="5" class="text-size text" id="file" name="file">
  <br/>
  <input type="submit" value="Create" id="submit" name="submit">
</form>

tested in IE8, RockMelt (based on Chrome) and Firefox 7: http://jsfiddle.net/Ngrbj/4/