[nycphp-talk] Determining mime type of data not a file
Scott Mattocks
scott at crisscott.com
Wed Jan 25 11:18:31 EST 2006
Scott Mattocks wrote:
> Thanks Chris and Anderw.
>
> I found the answer I was looking for in the fileinfo PECL extension
> (http://pecl.php.net/package/fileinfo). With this extension I can do the
> following:
>
> // Get the image data (see previous message for psuedo code)
> $fi = finfo_open(FILEINFO_MIME);
> $contentType = finfo_buffer($fi, $image);
> // Set the headers and output the message.
For anyone else that is interested, you can alternatively do this:
$finfo = new finfo(FILEINFO_MIME);
$contentType = $finfo->buffer($image);
Scott
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