PHP check if file is an image

Question

Is there a way to make sure a received file is an image in PHP?

Testing for the extension doesn't sound very secure to me as you could upload a script and change its extension to whatever you want.

I've tried to use getimagesize too, but there might be something more suited for that particular problem.

Answer 1

The getimagesize() should be the most definite way of working out whether the file is an image:

if(@is_array(getimagesize($mediapath))){
    $image = true;
} else {
    $image = false;
}

because this is a sample getimagesize() output:

Array (
[0] => 800
[1] => 450
[2] => 2
[3] => width="800" height="450"
[bits] => 8
[channels] => 3
[mime] => image/jpeg)