Why is mime_content_type() deprecated in PHP?
The method is not deprecated!
It once was incorrectly marked as deprecated in the manual, but it has been fixed https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=71367 on the 14th of January 2016.However, at the moment, it is still incorrectly marked deprecated in the German, Spanish and Chinese manual.
Feel free to use mime_content_type() whenever you like :).
I guess it's because Fileinfo can return more information about files.
EDIT: Here is a replacement hack:
function _mime_content_type($filename) { $result = new finfo(); if (is_resource($result) === true) { return $result->file($filename, FILEINFO_MIME_TYPE); } return false;}
Another way is to pass to the constructor constant FILEINFO_MIME.
$finfo = new finfo(FILEINFO_MIME);$type = $finfo->file('path/filename');