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o0110o on 10/20/12


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A function to get file mime-types with curl.

 / Published in: PHP
 

This is a function to retrieve the mime-type of a file by checking the header response with curl. It accepts the file-path as a parameter & it also has a fallback for empty returns.

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  1. function file_mime($_path) {
  2.   $ch = curl_init($_path);
  3.   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  4.   curl_exec($ch);
  5.   $content_info = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_CONTENT_TYPE);
  6.   curl_close($ch);
  7.   $content_parts = explode(";", $content_info);
  8.   $mime = $content_parts[0];
  9.   if(isset($mime) && !empty($mime)){return $mime;}
  10.   else if (function_exists('finfo_open')) {
  11.     $get_info = new finfo;
  12.     $mime = $finfo->file($_path, FILEINFO_MIME);
  13.     return $mime;
  14.   }
  15.   else { $mime = 'application/octet-stream'; return $mime;}
  16. }

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