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Diffstat (limited to 'user_guide/helpers')
| -rw-r--r-- | user_guide/helpers/file_helper.html | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/user_guide/helpers/file_helper.html b/user_guide/helpers/file_helper.html index a88e5dfc9..3fa92462b 100644 --- a/user_guide/helpers/file_helper.html +++ b/user_guide/helpers/file_helper.html @@ -134,11 +134,14 @@ can optionally be added to the file names by setting the second parameter to TRU <p>Given a file and path, returns the name, path, size, date modified. Second parameter allows you to explicitly declare what information you want returned; options are: name, server_path, size, date, readable, writable, executable, fileperms. Returns FALSE if the file cannot be found.</p>
<p class="important"><strong>Note:</strong> The "writable" uses the PHP function is_writable() which is known to have issues on the IIS webserver. Consider using fileperms instead, which returns information from PHP's fileperms() function.</p>
-<h2>get_mime_by_extension('<var>path/to/file/</var>')</h2>
+<h2>get_mime_by_extension('<var>file</var>')</h2>
<p>Translates a file extension into a mime type based on config/mimes.php. Returns FALSE if it can't determine the type, or open the mime config file.</p>
-
-<p class="important"><strong>Note:</strong> This is not an accurate way of determining file mime types, and is here strictly as a convenience. It should not be used for security.</p>
+<p>
+<code>$file = "somefile.png";<br />
+echo $file . ' is has a mime type of ' . get_mime_by_extension($file);</code>
+</p>
+<p class="critical"><strong>Note:</strong> This is not an accurate way of determining file mime types, and is here strictly as a convenience. It should not be used for security.</p>
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