Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] Finding mimetype best practice

[Shaun M. <sh...@ae...>]

On 26 Jul 2005, at 16:18, Verdon Vaillancourt wrote:
>
> if (!function_exists('mime_content_type')) {
>     function mime_content_type($f) {
>         $f = escapeshellarg($f);
>         return trim( `file -bi $f` );
>     }
> }
> $type = mime_content_type($file);
>
> However, I suspect this will not work on a windows server.

I suspect it won't work in safe_mode either.

How about using...

http://pear.php.net/package/MIME_Type

...which does the grunt work for you.

<?php
require 'MIME/Type.php';
echo MIME_Type::autoDetect('file.mp3');
?>

It uses either the php function, or the file command if available,  
otherwise it raises an error.

There's also http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/922.html which  
runs off file extensions and a mime.types file but that's a little  
dangerous. Stick with PEAR.


Shaun
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