// it looks like we have a 'file' command,
// lets see if it does have mime support
$path=escapeshellarg($path);
- $fp = popen("file -i -b $path 2>/dev/null", "r");
+ $fp = popen("file -b --mime-type $path 2>/dev/null", "r");
$reply = fgets($fp);
pclose($fp);
- // we have smth like 'text/x-c++; charset=us-ascii\n'
- // and need to eliminate everything starting with semicolon including trailing LF
- $mimeType = preg_replace('/;.*/ms', '', trim($reply));
+ //trim the newline
+ $mimeType = trim($reply);
}
return $mimeType;