On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 05:15:38PM -0400, Christoph Boget wrote: > Consider the following: > > $finfo = finfo_open( FILEINFO_MIME, '/usr/share/file/magic' ); > if( $finfo ) > { > $mimeType = finfo_file( $finfo, '/path/to/my/excel.xls' ); > finfo_close($finfo); > } > echo $mimeType; > > When I run the above, it echoes out "application/msword". Why? I > understand that both excel and word are part of the office suite but > why isn't it returning "application/excel" as it should? As far as I > can tell, we're using the most up to date version of fileinfo for PHP > 5.2.5. Is there something else I'm missing? Or doing wrong? > > thnx, > Christoph
Presumably, this information comes directly from /usr/share/file/magic. FWIW, my copy of this file is in /usr/share/misc/file/magic, which is where the man page says it should be. Debian Linux v5. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php