Let’s take a break from talking about games for a brief journey into the world of web development. I’ve done a fair bit of work with PHP and I want to address the issue of secure file uploads.

File uploading is a scary thing for web developers. You’re allowing complete strangers to put whatever they want onto your precious web server. In this article I’ll be dealing entirely with the uploading of images, and how to ensure that what a user is giving you is actually an image.… Continue reading