How do I install the extension 'fileinfo' in PHP 5.2.17 for the 'mime_content_type' function, now required by Webfm 2.18

Hmm just looks like an expansion of the system requirements in the new module. My installation must be failing on line 170 of webfm.module...

if (!extension_loaded('fileinfo') OR !function_exists('mime_content_type')) {

Perhaps my server doesn't have those functions.
I presume that in my case the module will still function as it had, but without the extra security feature.

hmm, sadly just noticed users cannot view my webfm files. perhaps this feature must work. any help?

OK I see that I need to install the 'fileinfo' PHP extension. I did that BUT the mime_content_type() function is still undefined. Anyone have experience with this? My webfm file downloads are broken until I fix this.

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My server is CentOS Linux
$uname -a
Linux hostname 2.6.18-028stab070.14 #1 SMP Thu Nov 18 16:04:02 MSK 010 i686 i386 GNU Linux

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Running PHP 5.2.17

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I downloaded and installed PECL / Fileinfo 1.0.4 from here http://pecl.php.net/package/Fileinfo

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The extension is installed, see...
$php -r "phpinfo();" | grep "fileinfo"
fileinfo
fileinfo support -> enabled

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This line was also added to my php.ini
extension=fileinfo.so

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extension_loaded('fileinfo') also return TRUE

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So I did all that and function_exists('mime_content_type') still returns FALSE.
How can that be?

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So I read this post http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.fileinfo.php#72264 and added this line to php.ini
mime_magic.magicfile=/usr/share/file/magic

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But function_exists('mime_content_type') still returns FALSE.

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Anyone with any ideas? If I cannot get the extension to work perhaps I can create a hack for mime_content_type(). I saw one here http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mime-content-type.php#84149.

Thanks for any help,

Jeff

Changing title to reflect true issue support need

hey wait a minute. looks like the function mime_content_type() is a deprecated PHP function that is not part of the fileinfo library.

Seems to me like line 168 of webfm.module should be revised
- if (!extension_loaded('fileinfo') OR !function_exists('mime_content_type')) {
+ if (!extension_loaded('fileinfo') AND !function_exists('mime_content_type')) {

In conclusion after looking at the webfm code it seems like webfm should still function and allow file downloads even with the warning. However, all my webfm file downloads result in an access denied. This must be another issue so I am turning to investigate the issues queue.

continuing discussion over here
http://drupal.org/node/1361200

thanks. got it.