[RESOLVED] Facing issue with mime_content_type() function when uploading small images

[praveenp]

Hi,

My requirement is users to allow upload photos of gif/jpeg for this I am using mime_content_type() function to identify mime type of file.

My problem is when I upload small gif image (size is below 60 bytes) this function is returning mime type is text/plain. If I upload little big size images (>60 bytes) then this function returning proper mime type.

Can yo please help me out on this.

I am using PHP Version 5.2.17

Regards,
Praveen

[johanafm]

If you read the documentation for that function at php.net, you will see that

mime_content_type — Detect MIME Content-type for a file (deprecated)

Warning

This function has been deprecated as the PECL extension Fileinfo provides the same functionality (and more) in a much cleaner way.

See Also

Fileinfo for a replacement

And you could also use [man]exif[/man] or [man]getimagesize[/man] for images

[praveenp]

Thank you johanafm.

I used exif working fine for me. Saved lot of time.