Using the PHP Fileinfo extension
25 February 2009 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | 4 comments
In my last post, I described how to install the Fileinfo PECL module on a Media Temple (dv) server, but I didn't really talk about what it does, why one might want to install it and how to use it.
The methods/functions in the Fileinfo PHP extension "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."1 (Note that this module replaces the Mimetype module.)
Installing the Fileinfo PECL module on a Media Temple dedicated virtual (dv) server
21 February 2009 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | 5 comments
This post describes how to install the PECL Fileinfo extension on a Media Temple dedicated virtual (dv) 3.5 server. A future post will describe what the Fileinfo extension does and why you might want to install it.
