PHP 7.0.6 Released

    Predefined Constants

    The constants below are defined by this extension, and will only be available when the extension has either been compiled into PHP or dynamically loaded at runtime.

    FILEINFO_NONE (integer)
    No special handling.
    Follow symlinks.
    FILEINFO_MIME_TYPE (integer)
    Return the mime type. Available since PHP 5.3.0.
    FILEINFO_MIME_ENCODING (integer)
    Return the mime encoding of the file. Available since PHP 5.3.0.
    FILEINFO_MIME (integer)
    Return the mime type and mime encoding as defined by RFC 2045.
    FILEINFO_COMPRESS (integer)
    Decompress compressed files. Disabled since PHP 5.3.0 due to thread safety issues.
    FILEINFO_DEVICES (integer)
    Look at the contents of blocks or character special devices.
    FILEINFO_CONTINUE (integer)
    Return all matches, not just the first.
    FILEINFO_PRESERVE_ATIME (integer)
    If possible preserve the original access time.
    FILEINFO_RAW (integer)
    Don't translate unprintable characters to a \ooo octal representation.

    User Contributed Notes

    jerome at chaman dot ca
    2 years ago
    proceed with caution
    as the documentation already says
           
    FILEINFO_MIME will output something like "image/jpeg; charset=binary"
           
    while
           
    FILEINFO_MIME_TYPE outputs  "image/jpeg"
    and
    FILEINFO_MIME_ENCODING outputs  "binary"
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