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Mimetype extensions has been removed from PHP 5.3.0 in favor of Fileinfo.

You must compile PHP with the configure switch `--with-mime-magic` to get support for mime-type functions. The extension needs a copy of the simplified `magic` file that is distributed with the Apache httpd.

The configure option has been changed from `--enable-mime-magic` to `--with-mime-magic` since PHP 4.3.2

This extension is not capable of handling the fully decorated `magic` file that generally comes with standard Linux distro's and is supposed to be used with recent versions of `file` command.

## Note to Win32 Users

In order to use this module on a Windows environment, you must set the path to the bundled `magic.mime` file in your &php.ini;.

### Setting the path to `magic.mime`

    mime_magic.magicfile = "$PHP_INSTALL_DIR\magic.mime"

Remember to substitute the `$PHP_INSTALL_DIR` for your actual path to PHP in the above example. e.g. `c:\php`