Doc #76690 [NEW]: mime_content_type's return type is not correctly documented

From: magnar at myrtveit dot com Operating system: Any PHP version: 7.2.8 Package: Documentation problem Bug Type: Documentation Problem Bug description:mime_content_type's return type is not correctly documented Description: ------------ --- From manual page: http://www.php.net/function.mime-content-type --- The return value is documented as "Returns the content type in MIME format, like text/plain or application/octet-stream." However, mime_content_type returns false on failure, as is evident from this test: https://3v4l.org/epEUd Test script: --------------- var_dump(mime_content_type('foo')); -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=76690&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76690&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.5): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76690&r=trysnapshot55 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76690&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76690&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76690&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76690&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76690&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76690&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76690&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76690&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76690&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76690&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76690&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76690&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76690&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76690&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76690&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76690&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76690&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76690&r=mysqlcfg