Runtime Configuration

The behaviour of these functions is affected by settings in php.ini.

Mimetype configuration options

Name	Default	Changeable	Changelog
mime_magic.debug	"0"	PHP_INI_SYSTEM	Available since PHP 5.0.0.
mime_magic.magicfile	"/path/to/php/magic.mime"	PHP_INI_SYSTEM	Available since PHP 4.3.0.

For further details and definitions of the PHP_INI_* constants, see the php.ini directives.

Here's a short explanation of the configuration directives.

mime_magic.debug bool

Enable/disable debugging.

mime_magic.magicfile string

The path to the magic.mime file.