PHP- Get file type by URL

Question

I want to get the file type (eg. image/gif) by URL using PHP.I had tried

Answer 1

You are not going wrong anywhere. exif_imagetype returns the value of one of the image type constants: http://php.net/manual/en/image.constants.php

If you would like to convert this to an extension string, you could use a switch statement:

$typeString = null;
$typeInt = exif_imagetype($image_path);
switch($typeInt) {
  case IMG_GIF:
    $typeString = 'image/gif';
    break;
  case IMG_JPG:
    $typeString = 'image/jpg';
    break;
  case IMG_JPEG:
    $typeString = 'image/jpeg';
    break;
  case IMG_PNG:
    $typeString = 'image/png';
    break;
  case IMG_WBMP:
    $typeString = 'image/wbmp';
    break;
  case IMG_XPM:
    $typeString = 'image/xpm';
    break;
  default: 
    $typeString = 'unknown';
}

You may want to change the order to most to least frequently expected for better performance.