Get mime type of external file using cURL and php

Question

I've used mime_content_type() and File info but i never successed. i want to use now cURL with PHP and get the headers of the file which is hosted on another domain then extract & determine if the type is MP3 or not. ( i think the mime type of MP3 is audio/mpeg )

Briefly, i know that but i don't know how to apply it :)

Thanks

Answer 1

PHP curl_getinfo()

<?php
  # the request
  $ch = curl_init('http://www.google.com');
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
  curl_exec($ch);

  # get the content type
  echo curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_CONTENT_TYPE);

  # output
  text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
?>

curl

curl -I http://www.google.com

output

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://www.google.com/
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 20:35:12 GMT
Expires: Sun, 09 May 2010 20:35:12 GMT
Cache-Control: public, max-age=2592000
Server: gws
Content-Length: 219

Answer 2

You can use a HEAD request via curl. Like:

$ch = curl_init();
$url = 'http://sstatic.net/so/img/logo.png';
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

$results = split("\n", trim(curl_exec($ch)));
foreach($results as $line) {
        if (strtok($line, ':') == 'Content-Type') {
                $parts = explode(":", $line);
                echo trim($parts[1]);
        }
}

Which returns: image/png

Answer 3

If you are ok with a more elegant Zend Framework version, here is a class which makes use of Zend_Http_Client component.

Use it like so: $sniffer = new Smartycode_Http_Mime(); $contentType = $sniffer->getMime($url);