Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:27236 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 26880 invoked by uid 1010); 2 Jan 2007 13:33:29 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 26865 invoked from network); 2 Jan 2007 13:33:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 2 Jan 2007 13:33:29 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=derick@php.net; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=derick@php.net; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain php.net from 82.94.239.5 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: derick@php.net X-Host-Fingerprint: 82.94.239.5 jdi.jdi-ict.nl Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from [82.94.239.5] ([82.94.239.5:36427] helo=jdi.jdi-ict.nl) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 85/34-32123-82F5A954 for ; Tue, 02 Jan 2007 08:33:29 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jdi.jdi-ict.nl (8.13.7/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l02DXPQM013170; Tue, 2 Jan 2007 14:33:26 +0100 Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 14:33:01 +0100 (CET) X-X-Sender: derick@localhost To: Kevin Waterson cc: internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: <20070102213341.2c99dd13.kevin@oceania.net> Message-ID: References: <20061231094951.48487025.kevin@oceania.net> <4596F6F8.6030605@zend.com> <20070102213341.2c99dd13.kevin@oceania.net> X-Face: "L'&?Ah3MYF@FB4hU'XhNhLB]222(Lbr2Y@F:GE[OO;"F5p>qtFBl|yVVA&D{A(g3[C}mG:199P+5C'v.M/u@Z\![0b:Mv.[l6[uWl' MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Include fileinfo in core From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Kevin Waterson wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Antony Dovgal wrote: > > > Also, to repeat myself here, there is also no way to use filepro database, hwapi, msession, > > cpdf, dio, fam, ingres, mnogosearch, yp API, Ovrimos, PayFlow Pro and a bunch of other functions > > without using PECL. > > I appreciate your point about not having everything available to core. > The extensions you mention above are very specific to a task, where-as > validating a file mimetype is quite a generic procedure. To this end I > would like to see more discussion on the topic. Its very clear that > you are not for it, but lets hear from others? I would also say it's something that many web applications require or would benefit from. regards, Derick