Posted by Stephen Leaf on 11/23/05 21:04

I'd say because it's been depreciated.

LXXVI. Mimetype Functions
Introduction
Warning
This extension has been deprecated as the PECL extension fileinfo provides
the same functionality (and more) in a much cleaner way.

On Wednesday 23 November 2005 12:45 pm, Ben wrote:
> Curt Zirzow wrote:
> > You should really consider using the fileinfo extension, or mabey
> > even http://php.net/getimagesize. The ['type'] information
> > can't be trusted to be what it says it is.
>
> Any reason why no one is suggesting the use of mime_content_type?
> http://ca.php.net/mime_content_type
>
> It seems to work well for me and there's no need to trust whatever the
> browser claims a file is or having to worry about different browsers
> inconsistently describing a mime type.
>
> - Ben

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