(PHP 5 >= 5.3.0, PHP 7, PECL fileinfo >= 0.1.0)
finfo_buffer -- finfo::buffer — Return information about a string buffer
Procedural style
$finfo
, string $string = NULL
[, int $options = FILEINFO_NONE
[, resource $context = NULL
]] )Object oriented style
$string = NULL
[, int $options = FILEINFO_NONE
[, resource $context = NULL
]] )This function is used to get information about binary data in a string.
finfoFileinfo resource returned by finfo_open().
stringContent of a file to be checked.
optionsOne or disjunction of more Fileinfo constants.
context
Returns a textual description of the string
argument, or FALSE if an error occurred.
Example #1 A finfo_buffer() example
<?php
$finfo = new finfo(FILEINFO_MIME);
echo $finfo->buffer($_POST["script"]) . "\n";
?>
The above example will output something similar to:
application/x-sh; charset=us-ascii