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Last updated: Tue, 19 Sep 2006

mime_content_type

(PHP 4 >= 4.3.0, PHP 5)

mime_content_type -- Detect MIME Content-type for a file

Description

string mime_content_type ( string filename )

Returns the MIME content type for a file as determined by using information from the magic.mime file. Content types are returned in MIME format, like text/plain or application/octet-stream.

Example 1. mime_content_type() example

<?php
echo mime_content_type('php.gif') . "\n";
echo mime_content_type('test.php');
?>

The above example will output:

image/gif
text/plain




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Last updated: Tue, 19 Sep 2006