Bugzilla Bug 120460

Please, test and keyword dev-php{4,5}/pecl-fileinfo-1.0.3 stable; it's
replacing buggy and deprecated built-in --with-mime-magic functions, that are
no longer available in dev-lang/php ebuilds.

Thanks.

sparc stable.

dev-php5/ stable
dev-php4/ ~amd64

stable on ppc64

Stable on ppc

dev-php5/pecl-fileinfo is stable.

dev-php4/pecl-fileinfo does not work.

halcyon@x86-stable /home $ /usr/lib/php4/bin/php ~/fileinfo.php 
application/x-not-regular-file
application/x-not-regular-file
application/x-not-regular-file

Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class:  finfo in
/home/halcyon/fileinfo.php on line 24


Expected:
halcyon@x86-stable /home $ /usr/lib/php5/bin/php ~/fileinfo.php                
application/x-not-regular-file
application/x-not-regular-file
application/x-not-regular-file
ASCII text, with no line terminators
ASCII text, with no line terminators
ASCII text, with no line terminators


fileinfo.php can be found in the pecl-fileinfo tarball.

Well, as said on IRC - the distributed examples are often broken or compatible
with a particular PHP version only. Working code:

<?php
$res = finfo_open(FILEINFO_MIME); /* return mime type ala mimetype extension */
$files = glob("*");
foreach ($files as $file) {
   echo finfo_file($res, $file) . "\n";
}
finfo_close($res);
?>

----

# /usr/lib/php4/bin/php ~/fileinfo.php
text/x-c; charset=us-ascii
application/x-shellscript
text/plain; charset=us-ascii
application/x-bzip2
application/x-shellscript
application/x-not-regular-file

# /usr/lib/php5/bin/php ~/fileinfo.php
text/x-c; charset=us-ascii
application/x-shellscript
text/plain; charset=us-ascii
application/x-empty
application/x-bzip2
application/x-shellscript
application/x-not-regular-file

Actually, someone said they didn't know why the code wouldn't work since it
wasn't PHP version dependent.  Your testcase doesn't test the OO functionality
at all.  Looking at the code quickly, I found that the OO stuff is only
generated for zend engine 2 (aka php-5 and higher).

dev-php4/pecl-fileinfo is now stable, though that behaviour sucks.