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From: "Robert P. J. Day" on 19 Mar 2010 14:08 i've perused the general PHP site and the PEAR site, and i haven't found anything that will let me determine the mime type of a simple blob of bytes. everything seems to be based off of the data being in a *file*. in my case, it's not in a file, it's simply a stream of bytes in a variable, and i'd rather not have to write all that data to a file just to identify its mime type. surely there's something that will tell me the mime type of a string of bytes, no? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ========================================================================
From: Michael Gauthier on 22 Mar 2010 09:07 On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 14:08 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i've perused the general PHP site and the PEAR site, and i haven't > found anything that will let me determine the mime type of a simple > blob of bytes. everything seems to be based off of the data being in > a *file*. in my case, it's not in a file, it's simply a stream of > bytes in a variable, and i'd rather not have to write all that data to > a file just to identify its mime type. > > surely there's something that will tell me the mime type of a string > of bytes, no? > Hi Robert, What you could do here is use the data:// string wrapper that's built-into PHP5 (http://www.php.net/manual/en/wrappers.data.php). That way, you can treat a string as a file resource. It's a bit of a hack, but it should work. Alternatively, opening a feature request against the fileinfo extension in PHP core would be a good idea. Cheers, Mike
From: "Daniel O'Connor" on 22 Mar 2010 19:39
> > Alternatively, opening a feature request against the fileinfo extension > in PHP core would be a good idea. > > > Oops, I forgot to post this back to the list http://au.php.net/manual/en/function.finfo-buffer.php DING! |