Hi,

PHP 4.3.8, Apache 1.3.31, Debian/GNU Linux

Is anybody using PECL extensions ?  I want to let people upload data to a
site I'm building and want to avoid using mime_content_type because from
the manual :-

"This extension has been deprecated as the PECL extension fileinfo
provides the same functionality (and more) in a much cleaner way."

After much messing about I eventually managed to work out how to install
the package :-

download Fileinfo from pecl.php.net
pear install ./Fileinfo

I had to install the magic library, libtools etc. before this would work.

My question now is, how do I call the fileinfo function and where do I
find any sensible documentation on it and what does it return ?

Currently, I'm downloading and installing the XML2 libs so I can install
php5 to see if it works any better :-(

This has to be the worst experience I have had with PHP, there just
seems to be no documentation on PECL aimed at an end user.

Regards,


Dave
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