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Doc Bug #22275 CLI and --enable-mime-magic Spews Warnings
Submitted: 2003-02-18 09:46 UTC Modified: 2003-03-31 13:38 UTC
From: hans at nyu dot edu Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Documentation problem
PHP Version: 4.3.1 OS: RedHat 6.2 (2.2.14)
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2003-02-18 09:46 UTC] hans at nyu dot edu 
Hopefully I'm not missing something obvious.  After downloading PHP 4.3.1 to a RedHat 6.2 box, I configured and compiled like so for use as a CLI bin:

./configure
--prefix=/usr/local/psh --disable-cgi
--disable-ipv6 --with-openssl=/usr/local/ssl
--with-zlib --enable-bcmath
--with-bz2 --enable-dio
--enable-ftp --enable-mime-magic
--with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql --with-ncurses
--enable-pcntl --with-readline
--enable-shmop --enable-sockets
--enable-sysvmsg --enable-sysvsem
--enable-sysvshm

Everything happily compiles and installs, but when finally running the binary as /usr/local/psh/bin/php -v the following is spewed out:

HTTP/1.0 0 X
Content-type: text/html

PHP Warning:  mime_magic: (line 3859) offset `&0	string		>\0			%s			' invalid in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  mime_magic: type &0	string		>\0			%s			 invalid in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  mime_magic: (line 3860) offset `&0	string		>\0			%s			' invalid in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  mime_magic: type &0	string		>\0			%s			 invalid in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  mime_magic: (line 3861) offset `&0	string		>\0			%s		' invalid in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  mime_magic: type &0	string		>\0			%s		 invalid in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  mime_magic: (line 3862) offset `&0	string		>\0			%s		' invalid in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  mime_magic: type &0	string		>\0			%s		 invalid in Unknown on line 0
PHP 4.3.1 (cli) (built: Feb 17 2003 22:13:02)
Copyright (c) 1997-2002 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v1.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2002 Zend Technologies

The same type of output occurs whether I use php -h or just plain php with no arguments.  Looking at /usr/share/magic I've excerpted the lines as noted:

3848	# HP Printer Job Language
3849	0	string		\033%-12345X@PJL	HP Printer Job Language data
3850	# HP Printer Job Language
3851	# The header found on Win95 HP plot files is the "Silliest Thing possible" 
3852	# (TM)
3853	# Every driver puts the language at some random position, with random case
3854	# (LANGUAGE and Language)
3855	# For example the LaserJet 5L driver puts the "PJL ENTER LANGUAGE" in line 10
3856	# From: Uwe Bonnes <bon@elektron.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de>
3857	# 
3858	0	string		\033%-12345X@PJL	HP Printer Job Language data
3859	>&0	string		>\0			%s
3860	>>&0	string		>\0			%s
3861	>>>&0	string		>\0			%s  3862	>>>>&0	string		>\0			%s  3863	#>15	string		\ ENTER\ LANGUAGE\ =
3864	#>31	string		PostScript		PostScript

If I then make distclean and ./configure just as above, but without --enable-mime-magic everything looks as it should.  Should CLI and --enable-mime-magic not be used together?  Hopefully this all makes sense to someone and this message comes out readable.

Thanks,

Hans

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 [2003-02-18 11:57 UTC] moriyoshi@php.net 
mime magic extension only supports simplified magic files that come with Apache distribution for now, as most part of its code is taken from mod_mime_magic.
 [2003-02-18 12:58 UTC] hans at nyu dot edu 
OK, this makes sense then.  If I set the following in php.ini:

mime_magic.magicfile = "/usr/local/apache/conf/magic"

everything appears fine.  If I also set that directive to a non-existent file, I don't get the Warning either.  However, if I set it to my system's magicfile, /usr/share/magic, I get the warnings.

With your clarification this makes sense, however maybe this is a documentation issue.  While http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mime-magic.php says this extension is derived from Apache mod_mime_magic, the Installation and Runtime Configuration sections are misleading, in my opinion.

In Installation:

"The extension needs a copy of the magic.mime as distributed with the file command. This file also part of most recent Linux distributions and usually stored in the /usr/share/misc directory."

And in Runtime Configuration the default value "/usr/share/misc/magic.mime" seems that it would never be a correct value.

Oddly enough, the default /usr/share/misc/magic.mime file doesn't exist on my system, and without the mime_magic.magicfile directive set, I still receive the Warnings.  I mention this as odd because when setting the directive explicitly to a non-existent file I don't get any warnings.

Anyway, thanks for the clarification,

Hans
 [2003-02-18 13:01 UTC] moriyoshi@php.net 
Now marking this as Documentation Problem.
 [2003-03-31 13:38 UTC] moriyoshi@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in CVS.

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 [2020-02-07 06:12 UTC] phpdocbot@php.net 
Automatic comment on behalf of moriyoshi
Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=doc/en.git;a=commit;h=b0f6477bc408b7e2840566c64604c5bcfefb018d
Log: Fixed bug #22912 and #22275
 
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