File Information

Table of Contents

Introduction
Installing/Configuring
Predefined Constants
Fileinfo Functions
- finfo_buffer — Return information about a string buffer
- finfo_close — Close fileinfo resource
- finfo_file — Return information about a file
- finfo_open — Create a new fileinfo resource
- finfo_set_flags — Set libmagic configuration options
- mime_content_type — Detect MIME Content-type for a file
finfo — The finfo class
- finfo::buffer — Alias of finfo_buffer()
- finfo::__construct — Alias of finfo_open
- finfo::file — Alias of finfo_file()
- finfo::set_flags — Alias of finfo_set_flags()

The finfo class

This class provides an object oriented interface into the fileinfo functions.

finfo

class finfo {

public __construct ([ int $options = FILEINFO_NONE [, string $magic_file = NULL ]] )

public string buffer ( string $string = NULL [, int $options = FILEINFO_NONE [, resource $context = NULL ]] )

public string file ( string $file_name = NULL [, int $options = FILEINFO_NONE [, resource $context = NULL ]] )

public bool set_flags ( int $options )

}