note 71176 added to function.mime-content-type

If mime_content_type is unavailable, and so is the PECL FileInfo library and so is the shell (in which case you are pretty annoyed by now) here is an alternative that falls back on the file extension - instead of 'magic'. I took the mime list basically and used that for the extension check. note that unlike 'magic' file detection this will get fooled by a bad extension. So a PDF file called file.zip will be reported as an 'application/zip' file. Like the PHP Compat library, this falls back to 'application/octet-stream' <?php if (!function_exists('mime_content_type')) { function mime_content_type($filename) { $idx = strtolower(end( explode( '.', $filename )) ); $mimet = array( 'ai' =>'application/postscript', 'aif' =>'audio/x-aiff', 'aifc' =>'audio/x-aiff', 'xyz' =>'chemical/x-xyz', 'zip' =>'application/zip' ); if (isset( $mimet[$idx] )) { return $mimet[$idx]; } else { return 'application/octet-stream'; } } } ?> NOTE: This is cut short to keep with size requirements. See the full function definition in my blog: http://frakkle.com/entry/103/php_mime_content_type_alternat Cheers, Mathew Frank ---- Server IP: 66.163.161.117 Probable Submitter: 202.161.21.91 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mime-content-type.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/71176 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/71176/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/71176/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/71176/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/71176/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/71176/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/71176/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/71176 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/71176 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php