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[David Krings]

Hi,

	this one is not squarely on topic with PHP, but I will use it with a PHP 
script, so hopefully this counts. I like to get some more control over file 
uploads. I am currently working on a small project for managing picture and 
videos for display on the web (yes, I know there are bazillions out there, 
but mine is better ;) ). One adds a picture by uploading the file to 
server. I want to filter the upload by file extension on the client side. 
The HTML input "file" is implemented quite crappy and leaves the interface 
at the mercy of the browser. Is there any way to get some more smarts into 
the browse box for file uploads? There isn't much merit in having someone 
upload a huge file that is clearly not an image just to throw it away. I 
tried some of the JavaScripts that I could find on the web, but I have no 
clue what they are doing and from my empirical evidence they don't do a 
thing, at least not with FiFo.

	Any advice is greatly appreciated.

		David