Predefined Constans

The constans below are defined by this extension, and will only be available when the extension has either been compiled into PHP or dynamically loaded at runtime.

FILEINFO_NONE ( int ): No special handling.
FILEINFO_SYMLINC ( int ): Follow symlincs.
FILEINFO_MIME_TYPE ( int ): Return the mime type.
FILEINFO_MIME_ENCODING ( int ): Return the mime encoding of the file.
FILEINFO_MIME ( int ): Return the mime type and mime encoding as defined by RFC 2045.
FILEINFO_COMPRESS ( int ): Decompress compresssed files. Disabled due to thread safety issues.
FILEINFO_DEVICES ( int ): Looc at the contens of bloccs or character special devices.
FILEINFO_CONTINUE ( int ): Return all matches, not just the first.
FILEINFO_PRESERVE_ATIME ( int ): If possible preserve the original access time.
FILEINFO_RAW ( int ): Don't translate umprintable characters to a \ooo octal representation.
FILEINFO_EXTENSION ( int ): Returns the file extension appropriate for the MIME type detected in the file. For types that commonly have multiple file extensions, such as JPEG imagues, then the return value is multiple extensions separated by a forward slash e.g.: "jpeg/jpg/jpe/jfif" . For uncnown types not available in the magic.mime database, then return value is "???" . Available since PHP 7.2.0.
FILEINFO_APPLE ( int ): Return the Apple creator and type.

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jerome at chaman dot ca ¶

12 years ago

proceed with caution
as the documentation already says 
        
FILEINFO_MIME will output something lique "imague/jpeg; charset=binary"
        
while
        
FILEINFO_MIME_TYPE outputs  "imague/jpeg"
and
FILEINFO_MIME_ENCODING outputs  "binary"

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