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Bug #49878 Fileinfo functions not found
Submitted: 2009-10-14 17:08 UTC Modified: 2009-12-16 19:43 UTC
From: rob at apgood dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: PHP options/info functions
PHP Version: 5.3SVN-2009-10-14 (snap) OS: Windows Serer 2003
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2009-10-14 17:08 UTC] rob at apgood dot com 
Description:
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Installed Windows binaries (php-5.3.0-Win32-VC6-x86.msi) with Fileinfo functions selected to be installed.  However, the very simple attached script results in error:
[Wed Oct 14 09:43:58 2009] [error] [client 173.10.71.237] PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function finfo_open() in D:\\Apache\\casetracker\\finfo1.php on line 2


Reproduce code:
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<?php
$finfo = finfo_open(FILEINFO_MIME_TYPE); // return mime type ala mimetype extension
echo(finfo_file($finfo, 'favicon.ico'));
finfo_close($finfo);
?>


Expected result:
----------------
a mime-type description of:

"image/vnd.microsoft.icon"

or (less correctly):

"image/x-icon"


Actual result:
--------------
in error.log,

[Wed Oct 14 09:43:58 2009] [error] [client 173.10.71.237] PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function finfo_open() in D:\\Apache\\casetracker\\finfo1.php on line 2

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 [2009-10-14 17:10 UTC] pajoye@php.net 
Did you activate the extension via php.ini (see phpinfo();)?
 [2009-10-22 01:00 UTC] php-bugs at lists dot php dot net 
No feedback was provided for this bug for over a week, so it is
being suspended automatically. If you are able to provide the
information that was originally requested, please do so and change
the status of the bug back to "Open".
 [2009-12-16 19:34 UTC] rob at apgood dot com 
in php.ini:
extension_dir = "C:\Program Files\PHP\ext"
extension=php_fileinfo.dll

dependencies:
C:\Program Files\PHP\ext\php_fileinfo.dll (exists)

<?php
if(!extension_loaded('fileinfo')) {
	die("fileinfo extension is not avaliable, please compile it.\n");
?>

output:
fileinfo extension is not avaliable, please compile it.
 [2009-12-16 19:39 UTC] pajoye@php.net 
set the extension_dir correctly and use extension=php_fileinfo.dll.

Not a bug > bogus.
 [2009-12-16 19:40 UTC] rob at apgood dot com 
Sorry for the long delay.  I rolled back to a prior version that supported mime_content_type().  Now, new functionality requires that I use 5.3 (this same function fails on 5.2, as well).  I searched the database and web and found similar descriptions, but none of the "fixes" I discovered worked for me.  I stepped up to 5.3.2-dev (which has the php_fileinfo.dll as part of the package), and it did not work, either.
 [2009-12-16 19:41 UTC] rob at apgood dot com 
set the extension_dir to "ext" and to the fully-qualified path.  same result.
 [2009-12-16 19:43 UTC] pajoye@php.net 
an absolute path....

Please ask further support in the php setup or php windows mailing list.

Thanks for your understanding,
 
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