function hook_file_validate in Drupal 7

Same name and namespace in other branches

1. 8 core/modules/file/file.api.php \hook_file_validate()
2. 9 core/modules/file/file.api.php \hook_file_validate()

Check that files meet a given criteria.

This hook lets modules perform additional validation on files. They're able to report a failure by returning one or more error messages.

Parameters

$file: The file object being validated.

Return value

An array of error messages. If there are no problems with the file return an empty array.

See also

file_validate()

Related topics

2 functions implement hook_file_validate()

Note: this list is generated by pattern matching, so it may include some functions that are not actually implementations of this hook.

file_managed_file_validate in modules/file/file.module

An #element_validate callback for the managed_file element.

file_test_file_validate in modules/simpletest/tests/file_test.module

Implements hook_file_validate().

1 invocation of hook_file_validate()

file_validate in includes/file.inc

Checks that a file meets the criteria specified by the validators.

File

modules/system/system.api.php, line 2862

Hooks provided by Drupal core and the System module.

Code

function hook_file_validate($file) {
  $errors = array();
  if (empty($file->filename)) {
    $errors[] = t("The file's name is empty. Please give a name to the file.");
  }
  if (strlen($file->filename) > 255) {
    $errors[] = t("The file's name exceeds the 255 characters limit. Please rename the file and try again.");
  }
  return $errors;
}