File Information

Introduction

The functions in this module try to guess the content type and encoding of a file by looking for certain magic byte sequences at specific positions within the file. While this is not a bullet proof approach the heuristics used do a very good job.

Installing/Configuring
- Installation
- Resource Types
Predefined Constants
Fileinfo Functions
- finfo_buffer — Return information about a string buffer
- finfo_close — Close finfo instance
- finfo_file — Return information about a file
- finfo_open — Create a new finfo instance
- finfo_set_flags — Set libmagic configuration options
- mime_content_type — Detect MIME Content-type for a file
finfo — The finfo class
- finfo::buffer — Alias of finfo_buffer()
- finfo::__construct — Alias of finfo_open
- finfo::file — Alias of finfo_file()
- finfo::set_flags — Alias of finfo_set_flags()