note 85559 deleted from ref.fileinfo by mazzanet

Note Submitter: Philip Snyder ---- This module needs some serious work. I'm a well versed linux guy and it took me almost an hour of hard research & trying this and that before I could actually get this to work. mime_content_type() is supposed to be deprecated, but if this is the replacement, stick with mime_content_type() as long as you can! After reading the previously mentioned installation issues, I still had to have this modification: $ apt-get install file-devel $ wget http://pecl.php.net/get/Fileinfo-1.0.4.tgz $ tar -zxvf Fileinfo-1.0.4.tgz $ cd Fileinfo-1.0.4 $ pecl install fileinfo Note that there is no ./configure anymore -- and that the directory name changed. Trying to do the pecl command first ended in failure. On my Fedora 7 box, I also had to directly reference the magic db as follows before this would work: $finfo = finfo_open(FILEINFO_MIME, '/usr/share/file/magic'); $mimeData = finfo_file($finfo, $file); echo "<pre>mimeData: ".print_r($mimeData, true)."</pre>"; Without it, it tries to use a linked file (/usr/share/misc/magic) -- which just doesn't work for some reason. I traced all the links, and they're right. Such basic functionality should not be so hard to come by!