PHP Equivilent of PERL's File Test Operators???

[Anon]

I'm pulling my hair out on this one. I just need a way to find out if a file is text or binary. Is there something out there?

[Anon]

I found a workaround (since no one else could answer...)

$a = perl -e 'if (-T "$file"){ print 1; }';
if ($a == 1){ $filetype = " - Text"; }