alternative to finfo() for php

Question

<?php 
$finfo = new finfo();
$fileinfo = $finfo->file($_FILES["fileToUpload"]["tmp_name"], FILEINFO_MIME);

switch($fileinfo) {
    case "image/gif":
    case "image/jpeg":
    case "image/png":
       move_uploaded_file($_FILES["fileToUpload"]["tmp_name"],
    "upload/" . $_FILES["fileToUpload"]["name"]);
    echo "Your file has successfully been uploaded, and is awaiting moderator approval for points." . "<html><br><a href='uploadfile.php'>Upload more.</a>";
    break;
     default:
     echo "Files must be either JPEG, GIF, or PNG and less than 10,000 kb";

        break;
        }


?>

it has recently been brought to my attention there is nothing wrong here, it just doesnt work because my servers php is only at 5.2 lemme know if you guys can find a way to make it work using MIME

Mikel · Accepted Answer

pecl install fileinfo?

http://pecl.php.net/package/Fileinfo

mario · Answer

On Linux servers you can be lazy and use:

 $type = exec("file -iL " . escapeshellcmd($fn) . " 2>/dev/null");
 $type = trim(strtok(substr(strrchr($type, ":"), 1), ";"));

Charles · Answer

mime_content_type might still work for you. While it's now under the fileinfo section in the manual, it existed way before fileinfo was brought into the PHP core.

Do note that it might require a bit of configuration if your host moved Apache's mime.types file out of the normal location, as documented in the comments on that page.

alternative to finfo() for php < 5.3

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