I found that while using the magic files from GnuWin 4.23 worked great for the PECL extension with PHP 5.2 on Win32, when I started migrating to PHP 5.3 all of a sudden Fileinfo no longer worked. Updating the magic files to the latest version (4.26 at the time of this writing) worked like a charm.
I guess the bundled version of Fileinfo uses the new mime magic format while the old PECL version uses the old format.
Instalarea
Această extensie este activată implicit începând cu PHP 5.3.0. Anterior fileinfo a fost o extensie PECL, acuma însă nu mai este menținută acolo. Totuși versiunile anterioare la 5.3+ pot utiliza » extensia PECL învechită.
Pentru a activa această extensie, utilizatorii Windows terbuie să includă în php.ini calea spre fișierul DLL php_fileinfo.dll inclus în pachet.
Biblioteca libmagic este furnizată cu PHP și include modificări speciale pentru PHP. Un petic pentru libmagic numit libmagic.patch este susținut și poate fi găsit în codurile-sursă ale extensiei fileinfo din PHP.
| Versiune PHP | Versiune libmagic reînnoită | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 5.3.2 | 5.03 | |
| 5.3.0 | 5.02 |
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User Contributed Notes 5 notes
mdahlke at pixelcarve dot com ¶
14 years ago
abowers ¶
11 years ago
Windows users: just edit php.ini and uncomment this line:
extension=php_fileinfo.dll
Remember to restart Apache for new php.ini to take effect.
fuxa_kos at unihost dot cz ¶
12 years ago
when you are compiling php from source yourself, with --disable-all
you need --enable-fileinfo
darko at uvcms dot com ¶
16 years ago
I need to add an addendum to the previous instalation steps.
Recently gnuwin32 project made a new release of file package (4.24). Binary release does not contain all needed magic files for fileinfo extension.
Instead of downloading latest version of file package (4.24) just get previous one (4.23) which does contain all of the needed files.
darko at uvcms dot com ¶
16 years ago
It is really strange to find that installing filenfo extension on windows is not yet fully explained. Here are the latest most up-to-date steps to make this work:
1. Add php_fileinfo.dll to the list of enabled extensions
extension=php_fileinfo.dll
2. Download GNU file package for windows
get it from here: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/downlinks/file-bin-zip.php
Extract the folder from the archive called shared\file which contains 4 magic files (magic, magic.mgc, magic.mime, magic.mime.mgc).
3. Place these 4 files in a known place
4. Add system enviroment variable MAGIC that points to the file called magic. For example if you placed magic files in folder called magic in c:\php that means that the propper path is c:\php\magic\magic
5. If you use IIS restart it and fileinfo is ready for use
5a. If you use apache you will have to restart operating system for the service to acknowledge MAGIC env. variable.
