Re: Mime Types

you could use the command "file -bin your_filename" and capture the output using popen or exec. i have found this to work well.. seee below.... function mimetype($file) { // execute command $fp = popen("file -bin $file","r"); // determine mimetype to output if(!$fp) { // default mimetype if no mimetype exists $mimetype="application/octet-stream"; } else { // iterate through return value to determine mimetype while($string=fgets($fp, 1024)) { $mimetype .= $string; } pclose($fp); } // return output return $mimetype; } Php List wrote: > Hi, > Is it possible to get a mime type of a file? > I need to be able to attach files, but I won't always know the mime type of what is being > attached. > I could look at the extension of the file for a general Idea, but I wouldn't know if a > .jpg file is an image/jpg or image/jpeg.(progressive) and there seems to be a difference between the > two. > > Thanks for any help. > Chris