RE: [PHP] Gnome and MIME types

Is php safe mode on or off? Best regards, Peter Lauri www.dwsasia.com - company web site www.lauri.se - personal web site www.carbonfree.org.uk - become Carbon Free > -----Original Message----- > From: Nathan Ziarek [mailto:nziarek@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 9:30 PM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] Gnome and MIME types > > I'm having a hard time getting solid MIME Types of various files. > > On my Ubuntu/Apache2/PHP5 system, I first attempted to install > fileInfo. That didn't go so well (on Safari even running "$finfo = > finfo_open(FILEINFO_MIME);" causes it to complain that it lost the > network connection; Firefox prompts me to download the file_ and > seeing as it is not really ready for release, I thought I should stay > away from that. > > I then tried running "system("file -i -m /usr/share/docs/mim file")" > which worked, but file doens't provide very good mime types -- all > Microsoft Office Documents returned nothing, for example. > > I then stumbled upon gnomevfs-info that provided the information I > wanted. I don't know what mime database it is using (couldn't find it) > but it sure seemed more complete than anything else I had used. > > Problem is, I can't seem to run it from within a PHP script (system, > exec, etc). I used the full path (/usr/bin/gnamevfs-info) so I don't > believe that to be the problem, and the page has no errors (I am using > error_reporting(E_ALL)). > > Any tips or suggestions? > > Thanks! > > Nate > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php