How to get MIME type of a file in PHP 5.5?

Question

I am using mime_content_type() in PHP 5.5 to get a MIME type, but it throws fatal: error function not found.

How can I achieve this on PHP

Answer 1

Make use of the finfo() functions.

A simple illustration:

OUTPUT :

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