Determine mime type from MySQL column

If your host still uses php 5.2 and does not have access to fileinfo functions, you can check the signature of the file header (magic numbers) to determine the mime type

function mimetype($data)
{
    //File signatures with their associated mime type
    $Types = array(
    "474946383761"=>"image/gif",                        //GIF87a type gif
    "474946383961"=>"image/gif",                        //GIF89a type gif
    "89504E470D0A1A0A"=>"image/png",
    "FFD8FFE0"=>"image/jpeg",                           //JFIF jpeg
    "FFD8FFE1"=>"image/jpeg",                           //EXIF jpeg
    "FFD8FFE8"=>"image/jpeg",                           //SPIFF jpeg
    "25504446"=>"application/pdf",
    "377ABCAF271C"=>"application/zip",                  //7-Zip zip file
    "504B0304"=>"application/zip",                      //PK Zip file ( could also match other file types like docx, jar, etc )
    );

    $Signature = substr($data,0,60); //get first 60 bytes shouldnt need more then that to determine signature
    $Signature = array_shift(unpack("H*",$Signature)); //String representation of the hex values

    foreach($Types as $MagicNumber => $Mime)
    {
        if( stripos($Signature,$MagicNumber) === 0 )
            return $Mime;  
    }

    //Return octet-stream (binary content type) if no signature is found
    return "application/octet-stream"; 
}

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