(PHP >= 5.3.0, PECL fileinfo >= 0.1.0)
finfo_file -- finfo::file — Return information about a file
Procedural style
$finfo
, string $file_name = NULL
[, int $options = FILEINFO_NONE
[, resource $context = NULL
]] )Object oriented style
$file_name = NULL
[, int $options = FILEINFO_NONE
[, resource $context = NULL
]] )This function is used to get information about a file.
finfo
Fileinfo resource returned by finfo_open().
file_name
Name of a file to be checked.
options
One or disjunction of more Fileinfo constants.
context
For a description of contexts, refer to Stream Functions.
Returns a textual description of the contents of the
filename argument, or FALSE if an error occurred.
Example #1 A finfo_file() example
<?php
$finfo = finfo_open(FILEINFO_MIME_TYPE); // return mime type ala mimetype extension
foreach (glob("*") as $filename) {
echo finfo_file($finfo, $filename) . "\n";
}
finfo_close($finfo);
?>
The above example will output something similar to:
text/html image/gif application/vnd.ms-excel