I am trying to get Mime-Type
for image-types
as follow:
if(!empty($_FILES['uploadfile']['name']) && $_FILES['uploadfile']['error'] == 0){
$file = $_FILES['uploadfile']['tmp_name'];
$file_type = image_type_to_mime_type(exif_imagetype($file));
switch($file_type){
// Codes Here
}
}
But it always gives the error Call to undefined function exif_imagetype()
. What am I doing wrong here?
Enable the following extensions in php.ini
and restart your server.
extension=php_mbstring.dll
extension=php_exif.dll
Then check phpinfo()
to see if it is set to on/off
I think the problem is PHP config and/or version, for example, in my case:
We know exif_imagetype()
takes a file path or resource and returns a constant like IMAGETYPE_GIF
and image_type_to_mime_type()
takes that constant value and returns a string 'image/gif'
, 'image/jpeg'
, etc.
This didn't work (missing function exif_imagetype), so I've found that image_type_to_mime_type()
can also take an integer 1, 2, 3, 17, etc. as input,
so solved the problem using getimagesize, which returns an integer value as mime type:
function get_image_type ( $filename ) {
$img = getimagesize( $filename );
if ( !empty( $img[2] ) )
return image_type_to_mime_type( $img[2] );
return false;
}
echo get_image_type( 'my_ugly_file.bmp' );
// returns image/x-ms-bmp
echo get_image_type( 'path/pics/boobs.jpg' );
// returns image/jpeg
Add this to your code so as we could know which version of php you do have because this function is only supported by (PHP version 4 >= 4.3.0, PHP 5).
<?php
phpinfo();
?>
It may be not installed, you can add this part of code to make sure it is :
<?php
if (function_exists('exif_imagetype')) {
echo "This function is installed";
} else {
echo "It is not";
}
?>