Classic ASP "PHP $ FILE" alternative

Need ASP to check Mime, Width and Height of an Image.

[TheJAG]

Basically what I have is a form with an input file.
It should check the file mime against an allowed types array and if it's an image then get the width and height of that image.
(There are only jpeg, png, gif and bmp in the array so far.)
I have no need to save it anywhere but can do so temporarily if necessary.

Anyone have any idea's on how to do this in Classic ASP/VBSCRIPT? Or if there are any complete scripts like that already...

Anyhow, here's the PHP script if that helps:

 $mime = array (
 'image/jpeg',
 'image/png',
 'image/gif',
 'image/x-ms-bmp'
 );

 if ( isset ( $_FILES['image'] ) ) {
 foreach ( $mime as $m ) {
 if ( $_FILES['image']['type'] == $m ) {
 $ok = true;
 }
 }
 if ( $ok === true ) {
 $image = getimagesize ( $_FILES['image']['tmp_name'] );
 list ( $width, $height ) = explode ( ' ', $image[3] );
 $width = substr ( $width, 7, -1 );
 $height = substr ( $height, 8, -1 );
 } else {
 $error = 'Invalid Image Format: ' . $_FILES['image']['type'];
 }
 }

[dstiles]

I've been using BitmapLibrary for several years (my copy came in bitmapsize.zip). You may have trouble tracking it down as there is another BitmapLibrary that's for fonts.

BitmapLibrary is a DLL that needs to be installed on the server. If you can't do that then you need to find/create a script that looks at the header of the image file and extracts the information. The header info varies quite a bit depending on jpg/gif/etc and on sub-type of each.

[TheJAG]

Thanks for the reply but dll's aren't really what I was looking for as the complete script should work on as many servers as possible. Will check if I can find it though and unless another solution presents itself it might be the only way. As for reading the header info, that's just out of my league as I only started scripting ASP/VBSCRIPT a few days ago. Perhaps I should scrap the ASP version altogether and go with some .net or another. Was planning on a .net version as well after this one. Not that I know anything about .net either.

Any other ideas or any help will be appreciated. Also any good references sources for Classic ASP and/or VBSCRIPT would be nice. I've been using w3schools for now and what I can find on a quick google search but google always gets me asp.net instead...

[dstiles]

Sorry, can't help beyond that.

If you get only asp net from google and you're not aware of google's personalisation, check out the google forum on WebmasterWorld.

[mattglet]

The closest you can get without using any 3rd party tools is the VBScript function "LoadPicture("filename")". There isn't a ton of documentation on it, and I've only ever really used it to get the width/height of the image.

If you're just looking to check file extensions, you can pretty easily just use some string based tools like InStr to find a period and see what comes after it. Or you can use Split to turn the string into an array.

This is obviously pretty rudimentary, but should get in the right direction.

[TheJAG]

I stumbled upon LoadPicture yesterday, was looking into it a bit. It seems to be an easy way to get width and height, though I need to save the file on disk then.
I found a way to get the mime/content-type, size and file-name of files with pure asp and without the need to save to disk from a file upload script. I modified it a little to remove a lot of unnecessary features but it does the job so far. Was going to look into getting width and height somehow, but using LoadPicture might be quicker...