fileinfo on Ivan Villarealhttps://ivanvillareal.com/tags/fileinfo/Recent content in fileinfo on Ivan VillarealHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usFri, 25 Dec 2009 04:47:24 +0000File Type Detection in PHPhttps://ivanvillareal.com/file-type-detecion-in-php/Fri, 25 Dec 2009 04:47:24 +0000https://ivanvillareal.com/file-type-detecion-in-php/I’m working on a project where the users can upload files, and I need to know the type of file they are uploading, a simple solution would be to check the extensions of the files, but this has many flaws, so I was looking for a reliable way to detect the type of file, and I found a PECL extension called file info this extension is enabled by default in PHP 5.