note 102413 added to function.finfo-file

[email protected] Sun, 13 Feb 2011 01:34:45 -0800
Newsgroups php.notes
Message-ID <[email protected]>
While figuring out my problem using this new function, i had a brainwave in using the full path of the file instead of the relative path. For example:

$folder = "somefolder/";
$fileName "aFile.pdf";

$finfo = finfo_open(FILEINFO_MIME_TYPE);
finfo_file($finfo, $folder.$fileName);

This will result in an error where it can't find the file specified.

This however fixxes that problem:
$folder = "somefolder/";
$fileName "aFile.pdf";

$finfo = finfo_open(FILEINFO_MIME_TYPE);
$mime = finfo_file($finfo, dirname(__FILE__)."/".$folder.$fileName);
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