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<div class="warning"><strong class="warning">Warning</strong>
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Mimetype extensions has been removed from PHP 5.3.0 in favor of <a href="book.fileinfo.html" class="link">Fileinfo</a>.
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You must compile PHP with the configure switch
<strong class="option configure">--with-mime-magic</strong>
to get support for
mime-type functions. The extension needs a copy of the simplified
<var class="filename">magic</var> file that is distributed with the Apache httpd.
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<blockquote class="note"><p><strong class="note">Note</strong>:
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The configure option has been changed from
<strong class="option configure">--enable-mime-magic</strong>
to <strong class="option configure">--with-mime-magic</strong>
since PHP 4.3.2
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<blockquote class="note"><p><strong class="note">Note</strong>:
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This extension is not capable of handling the fully decorated
<var class="filename">magic</var> file that generally comes with
standard Linux distro's and is supposed to be used with
recent versions of <var class="filename">file</var> command.
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<blockquote class="note"><p><strong class="note">Note</strong>:
<strong>Note to Win32 Users</strong><br />
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In order to use this module on a Windows environment, you must set the path
to the bundled <var class="filename">magic.mime</var> file in your <var class="filename">php.ini</var>.
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<p><strong>Example #1 Setting the path to <var class="filename">magic.mime</var></strong></p>
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mime_magic.magicfile = "$PHP_INSTALL_DIR\magic.mime"
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Remember to substitute the <var class="filename">$PHP_INSTALL_DIR</var> for your actual
path to PHP in the above example. e.g.
<var class="filename">c:\php</var>
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