PECL extension "fileinfo" returns mime-type "audio/x-mod" for .gif and .txt files

Opus

SUMMARY:

PECL extension "fileinfo" returns "audio/x-mod" as mime-type of .gif, .ps, .png, .txt, and .ico.

KEYWORDS:

fileinfo, mime, pecl, audio/x-mod, magic, magic.mime, finfo, php_fileinfo.dll, php_mime_magic.dll, mime_magic.magicfile

PHP FILE: PECLFileInfoTest.php

<?php
// Test "fileinfo" PHP extension from PECL
$res = new finfo(FILEINFO_MIME, "c:\progra~1\apache~1\apache2\conf\magic");
echo $res->file('c:\progra~1\apache~1\apache2\htdocs\images\flypenguin.gif') . "\n";
echo $res->file('c:\progra~1\apache~1\apache2\htdocs\images\canada.ps') . "\n";
echo $res->file('c:\progra~1\apache~1\apache2\htdocs\images\nill.png') . "\n";
echo $res->file('c:\progra~1\apache~1\apache2\htdocs\images\pscoastout.txt') . "\n";
echo $res->file('c:\progra~1\apache~1\apache2\htdocs\images\pin.ico');
?>

CALLING php.exe FROM THE COMMAND LINE:

c:\progra~1\php\php.exe -f c:\progra~1\apache~1\apache2\htdocs\peclfileinfotest.php

OUTPUT:

audio/x-mod
audio/x-mod
audio/x-mod
audio/x-mod
audio/x-mod

KEY LINES FROM php.ini:

extension=php_fileinfo.dll
extension=php_mime_magic.dll
[mime_magic]
mime_magic.magicfile = "c:\Progra~1\Apache~1\Apache2\conf\magic.mime"

REFERENCES:

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/ref.mime-magic.php
http://wiki.cc/php/Fileinfo

This seems really odd! Am I blind to something that should be obvious? :queasy:

Thanks!

tmo

Sorry for the double post...newbie on board - please see reply below!

tmo

I encountered the same issue. The solution was to make sure that the path to the magic DB is valid. I am using ports to manage my PECL extensions, so the default path was not working. And, PHP was not nice enough to give me any useful feedback - had to find this the hard way 🙂

Example:

#NOTE: In OS X there are two common paths to the magic DB 
# default: '/usr/share/file/magic'
# using ports: '/opt/local/share/file/magic'

$pathToMagic = '/opt/local/share/file/magic';
$handle = finfo_open(FILEINFO_MIME,$pathToMagic);
$mimetype = finfo_file($handle,$pathToFile);

In this case, if $pathToFile was a .jpg, $mimetype should return "image/jpeg"