exec takes a couple optional args to get your error code and output. Use them. Then use perror on the command line to see what error code means. Or I guess you could install my perror extension, if you were bored: http://l-i-e.com/perror All that said, I'm not at all sure why you are trying to do what you are doing, so can't really guess the best way to do it. Where do the files come from? Why do you want to guess their mime type? PHP can't do much useful with a mime type of an MS Office Document anyway... Unless you are running PHP on Windows, and want to use http://php.net/com to open up the document... On Thu, March 29, 2007 2:29 pm, Nathan Ziarek wrote: > I'm having a hard time getting solid MIME Types of various files. > > On my Ubuntu/Apache2/PHP5 system, I first attempted to install > fileInfo. That didn't go so well (on Safari even running "$finfo = > finfo_open(FILEINFO_MIME);" causes it to complain that it lost the > network connection; Firefox prompts me to download the file_ and > seeing as it is not really ready for release, I thought I should stay > away from that. > > I then tried running "system("file -i -m /usr/share/docs/mim file")" > which worked, but file doens't provide very good mime types -- all > Microsoft Office Documents returned nothing, for example. > > I then stumbled upon gnomevfs-info that provided the information I > wanted. I don't know what mime database it is using (couldn't find it) > but it sure seemed more complete than anything else I had used. > > Problem is, I can't seem to run it from within a PHP script (system, > exec, etc). I used the full path (/usr/bin/gnamevfs-info) so I don't > believe that to be the problem, and the page has no errors (I am using > error_reporting(E_ALL)). > > Any tips or suggestions? > > Thanks! > > Nate > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
