I'd say because it's been depreciated. LXXVI. Mimetype Functions Introduction Warning This extension has been deprecated as the PECL extension fileinfo provides the same functionality (and more) in a much cleaner way. On Wednesday 23 November 2005 12:45 pm, Ben wrote: > Curt Zirzow wrote: > > You should really consider using the fileinfo extension, or mabey > > even http://php.net/getimagesize. The ['type'] information > > can't be trusted to be what it says it is. > > Any reason why no one is suggesting the use of mime_content_type? > http://ca.php.net/mime_content_type > > It seems to work well for me and there's no need to trust whatever the > browser claims a file is or having to worry about different browsers > inconsistently describing a mime type. > > - Ben -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
