[TYPO3-dam] Improving file type indexing with mime_content_type()

[Steffen Müller]

On 08.10.2005 02:48 René Fritz wrote:
>>At the moment, DAM uses the filename extension to guess the media type
>>of a file. E.g. document.pdf will be categorized as text/pdf. So far so
>>good.
>>
>>In my eyes it's more clean to check the MIME type of the file with
>>mime_content_type()
>>
>>Using that, even if I rename document.pdf to document.gif it will still
>>be indicated as text/pdf.
>>

> 
> I made some test what the best solution is to detect the mime type. The point 
> is detecting the file type by it's content (eg. file command on unix) is 
> faaaar less good than just using the extension. The indexing process will use 
> other detecting mechanisms if there's no extension and works - but not as 
> good.

Could you please be more precise, what tests you made and what results
you got.

> Until there are better solutions I won't change it. So you have to provide 
> code instead of writing a feature request :-)

I digged a bit in the web and found out, that the php mime modul is
depreciated. There's a new one on pecl:
http://pecl.php.net/package/fileinfo

Did you take this one into account in your tests?

Let's first discuss before writing code.

-- 
cheers
Steffen