Re: PHP to get File Type

There is a more elegant way: http://br2.php.net/manual/en/function.mime-content-type.php and the preferred way: http://br2.php.net/manual/en/function.finfo-file.php Angelo 2008/10/14 Aschwin Wesselius <aschwin@illuminated.nl> > Manoj Singh wrote: > >> Hello All, >> Is there any function in PHP to get the file/Mime type of any file? >> >> Any help will be appreciated. >> > Hi, > > There are better and more elegant ways to do this, but I'm not aware of > them. > > Here is what I use most of the time. You only use the filename as $value > for get_mimetype(). > > function get_file_extension($file) { > > return array_pop(explode('.',$file)); > } > > function get_mimetype($value='') { > > $ct['htm'] = 'text/html'; > $ct['html'] = 'text/html'; > $ct['txt'] = 'text/plain'; > $ct['asc'] = 'text/plain'; > $ct['bmp'] = 'image/bmp'; > $ct['gif'] = 'image/gif'; > $ct['jpeg'] = 'image/jpeg'; > $ct['jpg'] = 'image/jpeg'; > $ct['jpe'] = 'image/jpeg'; > $ct['png'] = 'image/png'; > $ct['ico'] = 'image/vnd.microsoft.icon'; > $ct['mpeg'] = 'video/mpeg'; > $ct['mpg'] = 'video/mpeg'; > $ct['mpe'] = 'video/mpeg'; > $ct['qt'] = 'video/quicktime'; > $ct['mov'] = 'video/quicktime'; > $ct['avi'] = 'video/x-msvideo'; > $ct['wmv'] = 'video/x-ms-wmv'; > $ct['mp2'] = 'audio/mpeg'; > $ct['mp3'] = 'audio/mpeg'; > $ct['rm'] = 'audio/x-pn-realaudio'; > $ct['ram'] = 'audio/x-pn-realaudio'; > $ct['rpm'] = 'audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin'; > $ct['ra'] = 'audio/x-realaudio'; > $ct['wav'] = 'audio/x-wav'; > $ct['css'] = 'text/css'; > $ct['zip'] = 'application/zip'; > $ct['pdf'] = 'application/pdf'; > $ct['doc'] = 'application/msword'; > $ct['bin'] = 'application/octet-stream'; > $ct['exe'] = 'application/octet-stream'; > $ct['class']= 'application/octet-stream'; > $ct['dll'] = 'application/octet-stream'; > $ct['xls'] = 'application/vnd.ms-excel'; > $ct['ppt'] = 'application/vnd.ms-powerpoint'; > $ct['wbxml']= 'application/vnd.wap.wbxml'; > $ct['wmlc'] = 'application/vnd.wap.wmlc'; > $ct['wmlsc']= 'application/vnd.wap.wmlscriptc'; > $ct['dvi'] = 'application/x-dvi'; > $ct['spl'] = 'application/x-futuresplash'; > $ct['gtar'] = 'application/x-gtar'; > $ct['gzip'] = 'application/x-gzip'; > $ct['js'] = 'application/x-javascript'; > $ct['swf'] = 'application/x-shockwave-flash'; > $ct['tar'] = 'application/x-tar'; > $ct['xhtml']= 'application/xhtml+xml'; > $ct['au'] = 'audio/basic'; > $ct['snd'] = 'audio/basic'; > $ct['midi'] = 'audio/midi'; > $ct['mid'] = 'audio/midi'; > $ct['m3u'] = 'audio/x-mpegurl'; > $ct['tiff'] = 'image/tiff'; > $ct['tif'] = 'image/tiff'; > $ct['rtf'] = 'text/rtf'; > $ct['wml'] = 'text/vnd.wap.wml'; > $ct['wmls'] = 'text/vnd.wap.wmlscript'; > $ct['xsl'] = 'text/xml'; > $ct['xml'] = 'text/xml'; > > $extension = get_file_extension($value); > > if (!$type = $ct[strtolower($extension)]) { > > $type = 'text/html'; > } > > return $type; > > } > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >