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Bug #31644 Mimetype Functions are deprecated in favour of an unstable replacement
Submitted: 2005-01-21 19:19 UTC Modified: 2005-02-21 20:52 UTC
From: peter at jingo dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: *General Issues
PHP Version: Irrelevant OS:
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2005-01-21 19:19 UTC] peter at jingo dot com 
Description:
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The documentation for the Mimetype Functions says that it is deprecated and to use the FileInfo PECL extension which is not stable, experimental and has no documentation. 

The mimetype functions shouldn't be depreciated until a suitable replacement is available.

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 [2005-02-04 11:35 UTC] vrana@php.net 
You are maybe right but it's not a documentation problem.
 [2005-02-04 12:59 UTC] et@php.net 
Don't mark it as bogus if it isn't.
 [2005-02-21 20:52 UTC] sniper@php.net 
I think the author of any extension can mark it deprecated if he/she thinks it is such..and there IS replacement: fileinfo extension found in PECL. 

And ext/mimetype has been marked as EXPERIMENTAL itself so I wouldn't call it 'stable' either. Fileinfo at least is under active maintenance, I'd rather use that if I needed this kind of functionality any day.

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