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From: Auke van Slooten on 9 Mar 2010 03:39
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Mar 2010, Ashley Sheridan wrote:
>
>> What about writing the first n bytes to a file and then passing that
>> to the command line? I'm assuming a Linux server here, but it should
>> do the trick.
>
> gaaaaah! i was hoping for something that wouldn't make me want to
> gouge out my eyes with a soup spoon. :-)

Maybe slightly less painfull, you can always write your own 'mimemagic'
detection method. The magic.mime file is relatively easy to parse. This
is the route we took some years ago to make our mime detection OS
independant. We've made a php script which parses the mime.types file
and the magic.mime file and it generates a php module which uses that
information to figure out the correct mimetype.

The resulting php module has a large array, which looks like this:

...
$mimemagic_data[0][4]["\0\0\1\273"]="video/mpeg";
$mimemagic_data[0][4]["\0\0\2\0"]="application/x-123";
$mimemagic_data[0][4]["\0\0\32\0"]="application/x-123";
$mimemagic_data[0][4]["\0\6\25\141"]="application/x-dbm";
$mimemagic_data[0][4]["\101\104\111\106"]="audio/X-HX-AAC-ADIF";
$mimemagic_data[0][4]["\103\120\103\262"]="image/x-cpi";
...

with the first key as the offset to start, the next key is the length of
the snippet to check (I guess that could have been skipped...) and the
final key is the exact string to match.

The magic.mime file is no magic bullet though, there are occasions when
it won't match with a file, but that's usually with more complex types
like microsoft office documents, not with images.

If you're interested, the mimemagic module can be found here:
http://svn.muze.nl/trunk/lib/modules/mod_mimemagic.php?revision=4299&root=ariadne-php5

And the builder script (which you should run on a unix system with
magic.mime and mime.types file) is here:
http://svn.muze.nl/trunk/bin/utils/build_mimemagic_script.php?revision=4299&root=ariadne-php5

Hope this helps,
Auke van Slooten
Muze
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