Mimetype

&reftitle.intro; The functions in this module try to guess the content type and encoding of a file by looking for certain magic byte sequences at specific positions within the file. While this is not a bullet proof approach the heuristics used do a very good job. This extension is derivated from Apache mod_mime_magic, which is itself based on the file command maintaind by Ian F. Darwin. See the source code for further historic and copyright information.

&reftitle.required; &no.requirement;

&reftitle.install; The extension needs a copy of the magic.mime as distributed with the file command. This file also part of most recent Linux distributions and usually stored in the /usr/share/misc directory.

&reftitle.runtime; Name Default Changeable mime_magic.magicfile "/usr/share/misc/magic.mime" PHP_INI_SYSTEM

&reftitle.resources; &no.resource;

&reftitle.constants; &no.constants;

&reference.mime-magic.functions;