Phpunit image download test

Question

I\'m writing test case to image downloading service written in php. We\'re using phpunit. How can I check if retrieved binary data is an image?

Answer 1

Using exif_imagetype (see manual) is nice, but does require you have to the file on your local disk. If you don't mind hard-coding some magic numbers, you could check for the image type directly, see testFetchWithoutSaving in the next example:

class ImageTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
{

/**
* @see http://stackoverflow.com/a/676975/841830
*/
public function testFetchWithoutSaving(){
    $s=file_get_contents("https://www.google.com/images/srpr/logo3w.png");
    $this->assertEquals("\x89PNG\x0d\x0a\x1a\x0a",substr($s,0,8));

    $s=file_get_contents("https://www.google.com/");
    $this->assertEquals("\x89PNG\x0d\x0a\x1a\x0a",substr($s,0,8),"Fails: first 8 bytes are actually 'assertTrue($type!==false);   //Any recognized image type
    $this->assertEquals(IMAGETYPE_PNG,$type);   //A specific image type
    }

}