[PHP] RE: MIME Types [fixed]

[Mikey]

> The closest I have found on my google is the 
> "application/msexcel" type, but this spawns Excel when 
> viewing the file, and I do not want this behaviour.

Not sure what is happening with the list this morning, but it is eerily
quiet!

Anyway, a little bit of tinkering and I found that the answer was stupidly
simple.  The correct header to send is "text/plain" - doh!

Regards,

Mikey

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[PHP] Re: Mime Types

[christian haines]

you could use the command "file -bin your_filename" and capture the output using popen 
or exec.

i have found this to work well..

seee below

 function mimetype($file)
 {
  // execute command
  $fp = popen("file -bin $file","r");

  // determine mimetype to output
  if(!$fp)
  {
   // default mimetype if no mimetype exists
   $mimetype="application/octet-stream";
  }
  else
  {
   // iterate through return value to determine mimetype
   while($string=fgets($fp, 1024))
   {
$mimetype .= $string;
   }
   pclose($fp);
  }

  // return output
  return $mimetype;
 }

Php List wrote:

> Hi,
> Is it possible to get a mime type of a file?
> I need to be able to attach files, but I won't always know the mime type of what is 
>being attached.
> I could look at the extension of the file for a general Idea, but I wouldn't know if 
>a .jpg file is an image/jpg or image/jpeg.(progressive) and there seems to be a 
>difference between the two.
>
> Thanks for any help.
> Chris


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[PHP] Re: Mime Types

[Manuel Lemos]

Hello,

On 10/03/2002 07:41 PM, Php List wrote:
> Hi,
> Is it possible to get a mime type of a file? 
> I need to be able to attach files, but I won't always know the mime type of what is 
>being attached.
> I could look at the extension of the file for a general Idea, but I wouldn't know if 
>a .jpg file is an image/jpg or image/jpeg.(progressive) and there seems to be a 
>difference between the two. 

This class that can compose and send messages with attachments already 
guess the MIME type for you from the file name extension:

http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage

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Regards,
Manuel Lemos


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[PHP] Re: Mime types?

[Joni Järvinen]

If I remember correctly, there are various articles about file upload in
sites such as www.phpbuilder.com,
www.codewalkers.com and such. Hope that helps you get started :)

-Joni-
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> Is there a resource somewhere that would show what the various MIME types
> are?  For a file upload page, I want to include .TIF, .AI, .PSD, etc., in
> addition to the "standard" GIF and JPG types...
>
> Thanx,
> Wm
>
>
>
>



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