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Mimetype Functions
This extension has been deprecated as the PECL extension Fileinfo provides the same functionality (and more) in a much cleaner way.
The functions in this module try to guess the content type and encoding of a file by looking for certain magic byte sequences at specific positions within the file. While this is not a bullet proof approach the heuristics used do a very good job.
This extension is derived from Apache mod_mime_magic,
which is itself based on the file
command maintained by Ian F. Darwin. See the source code for
further historic and copyright information.
You must compile PHP with the configure switch
--with-mime-magic to get support for
mime-type functions. The extension needs a copy of the simplified
magic file that is distributed with the Apache httpd.
The configure option has been changed from
--enable-mime-magic
to --with-mime-magic since PHP 4.3.2
This extension is not capable of handling the fully decorated
magic file that generally comes with
standard Linux distro's and is supposed to be used with
recent versions of file command.
In order to use this module on a Windows environment, you must set the path
to the bundled magic.mime file in your php.ini.
Remember to substitute the $PHP_INSTALL_DIR for your actual
path to PHP in the above example. e.g.
c:\php
The behaviour of these functions is affected by settings in php.ini.
Table 172. Mimetype configuration options
| Name | Default | Changeable | Changelog |
|---|---|---|---|
| mime_magic.debug | "0" | PHP_INI_SYSTEM | Available since PHP 5.0.0. |
| mime_magic.magicfile | "/path/to/php/magic.mime" | PHP_INI_SYSTEM | Available since PHP 4.3.0. |
For further details and definitions of the
PHP_INI_* constants, see the Appendix I, php.ini directives.
Here's a short explanation of the configuration directives.
Table of Contents
- mime_content_type — Detect MIME Content-type for a file (deprecated)