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<h1 class="refname">mime_content_type</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PHP 4 >= 4.3.0, PHP 5)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">mime_content_type</span> — <span class="dc-title">Detect MIME Content-type for a file (deprecated)</span></p>
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<div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-function.mime-content-type-description">
<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
<div class="methodsynopsis dc-description">
<span class="type">string</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>mime_content_type</strong></span>
( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$filename</code></span>
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<p class="para rdfs-comment">
Returns the MIME content type for a file as determined by using
information from the <var class="filename">magic.mime</var> file.
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<div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-function.mime-content-type-parameters">
<h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
<p class="para">
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<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">filename</code></em></span>
<dd>
<p class="para">
Path to the tested file.
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<div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-function.mime-content-type-returnvalues">
<h3 class="title">Return Values</h3>
<p class="para">
Returns the content type in MIME format, like
<em>text/plain</em> or <em>application/octet-stream</em>.
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<div class="refsect1 notes" id="refsect1-function.mime-content-type-notes">
<h3 class="title">Notes</h3>
<div class="warning"><strong class="warning">Warning</strong>
<p class="para">
This function has been deprecated as the PECL extension
<a href="ref.fileinfo.html" class="link">Fileinfo</a> provides the same
functionality (and more) in a much cleaner way.
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<div class="refsect1 examples" id="refsect1-function.mime-content-type-examples">
<h3 class="title">Examples</h3>
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<p><strong>Example #1 <span class="function"><strong>mime_content_type()</strong></span> Example</strong></p>
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<div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000">
<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br /></span><span style="color: #007700">echo </span><span style="color: #0000BB">mime_content_type</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'php.gif'</span><span style="color: #007700">) . </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"\n"</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br />echo </span><span style="color: #0000BB">mime_content_type</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'test.php'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span>
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</code></div>
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<div class="example-contents"><p>The above example will output:</p></div>
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<div class="cdata"><pre>
image/gif
text/plain
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<div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-function.mime-content-type-seealso">
<h3 class="title">See Also</h3>
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<a href="ref.fileinfo.html" class="link">Fileinfo</a> for a replacement
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