[RESOLVED] mime_content_type('myimage.png') returns "text/plain"

[ppowell]

PHP 4.3.8 with UNIX with option --with-magic_mime

 echo mime_content_type('/images/myimage.png'); // RETURNS "text/plain"

PHP 4.3.11 with UNIX with option --with-magic_mime

 echo mime_content_type('/images/myimgae.png'); // RETURNS "text/plain"

PHP 4.3.2 and 4.3.6 with UNIX, PHP 5.0.4 with Windows (w/o magic_mime support)

 echo mime_content_type('/images/myimage.png'); // RETURNS "image/png"

I am having to shut off support within a portable web application that will be housed, at least, in the following environments:

1. PHP 4.3.2/UNIX
2. PHP 4.1.2/UNIX
3. PHP 4.3.6/UNIX
4. PHP 4.3.11/UNIX
5. PHP 5.0.4/Windows

this means that the environment must be universal for this to work, and in the case of a few test environments that were running 4.3.11 - 5.0.4, mime_content_type() under PHP supporting --with-magic_mime would always return

text/plain

and not

image/png

I think this is a bug but cannot independently verify this unless someone else here duplicates my test, provided they too are running PHP 4.3.8+ with --with-magic_mime support enabled and see if they get the same results. Otherwise, how do I work around this problem? [Note: I wrote my own "mime_content_type()" function that works just fine)

Thanx
Phil

[ppowell]

It's a bug alright!! You must add the following lines to Apache's magic file to ensure PNG support in PHP with --with-magic_mime:

Add the following to: /etc/httpd/conf/magic just below the GIF and JPG
entries:

#PNG Image Format
0 string \x89PNG image/png

And restart HTTPd.

Phil