note 50834 added to ref.mime-magic

From the top of this php (LXX. Mimetype Functions): This extension has been deprecated as the PECL extension fileinfo provides the same functionality (and more) in a much cleaner way. I call shenanigans. According to Google with several hours of my time, there is not a page on the internet which contains docs to this extension. From phpinfo(): fileinfo support => enabled # cat test.php <? $fileName = '/tmp/image.jpg'; $fInfo = new finfo(FILEINFO_MIME); $mimeType = $fInfo->file($fileName); echo $mimeType; ?> # php test.php Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: finfo in /home/michael/pecl/Fileinfo-0.2/test.php on line 16 Looking at php_fileinfo.h I see five functions: PHP_MINFO_FUNCTION(fileinfo); PHP_FUNCTION(finfo_open); PHP_FUNCTION(finfo_close); PHP_FUNCTION(finfo_set_flags); PHP_FUNCTION(finfo_file); PHP_FUNCTION(finfo_buffer); When I try to call the finfo_file function, I get: Warning: finfo_file() expects at least 2 parameters, 1 given in /home/michael/pecl/Fileinfo-0.2/test.php on line 7 It would be nice if there were docs explaining why I need a second argument. Trying to guess just results in errors like this: Warning: finfo_file() expects at least 2 parameters, 1 given in /home/michael/pecl/Fileinfo-0.2/test.php on line 7 Warning: finfo_open() expects parameter 1 to be long, string given in /home/michael/pecl/Fileinfo-0.2/test.php on line 7 Compiling this extension (on Debian anyway) results in an error on libmagic, but it's lying. You have to manually compile the file package (I used file-4.13). The latest Debian unstable package is: file 4.12-1 Determines file type using "magic" numbers so I guess you either need 4.13 or Debian is missing a file-dev package. ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mime-magic.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+50834 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+50834&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+50834&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+50834&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+50834&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+50834&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+50834&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php