finfo_open

Create a new fileinfo resource (PECL fileinfo:0.1-1.0.4)
resource finfo_open ( [int options [, string arg]] )

Example 617. Object oriented style

<?php

$finfo = new finfo(FILEINFO_MIME, "/usr/share/misc/magic"); // return mime type ala mimetype extension

if (!$finfo) {

    echo "Opening fileinfo database failed";

    exit();

}

/* get mime-type for a specific file */
$filename = "/usr/local/something.txt";

echo $finfo->file($filename);

/* close connection */
$finfo->close();
?>

Example 618. Procedural style

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<?php

$finfo = finfo_open(FILEINFO_MIME, "/usr/share/misc/magic"); // return mime type ala mimetype extension

if (!$finfo) {

    echo "Opening fileinfo database failed";

    exit();

}

/* get mime-type for a specific file */
$filename = "/usr/local/something.txt";

echo finfo_file($finfo, $filename);

/* close connection */
finfo_close($finfo);
?>

Code Examples / Notes » finfo_open

the "close" method does not exists, as it is the default deconstructior there is no need to call it.

On Windows systems people might find that this always returns "application/x-dpkg". There are 2 ways of solving this problem: 1. Get the mime-magic database file from GnuWin32 at <http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/> 2. You can manually "fix" the mime-magic file by editing it and escaping all lines starting with !, thus changing each one to \!

Here is the exact link for Win32user to the file binary package: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php? group_id=23617&package_id=18878

Couldn't get finfo to return the mimetype in the way expected so i made a function to do it with system() <?php function get_mime_type($filepath) { ob_start(); system("file -i -b {$filepath}"); $output = ob_get_clean(); $output = explode("; ",$output); if ( is_array($output) ) { $output = $output[0]; } return $output; } ?> hope it works for other people too

finfo_open

Create a new fileinfo resource (PECL fileinfo:0.1-1.0.4) resource finfo_open ( [int options [, string arg]] )

Example 617. Object oriented style

Example 618. Procedural style

Code Examples / Notes » finfo_open

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Create a new fileinfo resource (PECL fileinfo:0.1-1.0.4)
resource finfo_open ( [int options [, string arg]] )