PYTHON mime_content_type

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import mimetypes
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PHP mime_content_type

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(PHP 4 >= 4.3.0, PHP 5)

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

string mime_content_type ( string $filename )

Returns the MIME content type for a file as determined by using information from the magic.mime file.

Returns the content type in MIME format, like text/plain or application/octet-stream.

Warning

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

Example #1 mime_content_type() Example


<?php
echo mime_content_type('php.gif') . "\n";
echo mime_content_type('test.php');
?>

The above example will output:

image/gif
text/plain