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Revision: 60096
at October 20, 2012 09:45 by o0110o
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function file_mime($_path) {
  $ch = curl_init($_path);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  curl_exec($ch);
  $content_info = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_CONTENT_TYPE);
  curl_close($ch);
  $content_parts = explode(";", $content_info);
  $mime = $content_parts[0];
  if(isset($mime) && !empty($mime)){return $mime;}
  else if (function_exists('finfo_open')) {
    $get_info = new finfo;
    $mime = $finfo->file($_path, FILEINFO_MIME);
    return $mime;
  }
  else { $mime = 'application/octet-stream'; return $mime;}
}
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                                        Initial Description
                                        

                                    

                                    
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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A function to get file mime-types with curl.

                                

                                                            

                                    

                                        

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curl, function

                                

                                                            

                                    

                                        

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PHP