Hi Antony, Antony Dovgal wrote: > On 12/31/2006 02:43 AM, Kevin Waterson wrote: >>> While mime_magic is deprecated, it does not mean it cannot be used. >>> So there certainly is a way to do it without PECL. >> Currently, but it will be moved sometime in the future. >> >>> Anyone capable of installing core extension, is capable of installing >>> an extension from PECL, in most cases it's as easy as `pecl install >>> <name>`. >> Not everybody has access to this, particularly in a mutliple hosting >> environment. > > Sure, but the very same applies to core extensions.
however the just do ./configure without any additional options or just add all enabling|--with params but are ignorant of PECL being existent. Thus they think they have provided everything, though they haven't. Then the process starts to ask for the installation of this or that PECL extension :( >> It would be nice to be able to verify/validate file types by mimetype >> with a simple core function >> that is available on all platforms. If the only way of doing this is >> in PECL then portablity >> is lost and so is any surity of what type of file an uploaded file may >> be, without resorting to hacks. > > Including an extension into the core does not mean it will become > available on all hostings, especially taking into account that this > extension has an external dependency (libfile). > > Also, I'm not sure I understand what portability you're talking about. > ext/mime_magic can be also missing if your sysadmin did not enable it > when building PHP. Andrey -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
