finfo_file
(PECL fileinfo:0.1-1.0.4)
finfo_file — Return information about a file
Description
string finfo_file
( resource $finfo
, string $file_name
[, int $options
[, resource $context
]] )
finfo
string file
(
string $file_name
[,
int $options
[,
resource $context
]] )
This function is used to get information about a file.
Return Values
Returns a textual description of the contents of the
filename
argument, or FALSE if an error occurred.
Examples
Example #1 A finfo_file() example
<?php
$finfo = finfo_open(FILEINFO_MIME); // 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