Re: [PHP] mime with php4.4.4 does not work anymore

Roger Thomas wrote:
I have been serving my community with Invision Power Board (IPB) v1.3.1 Final. Things are working well with PHP 4.3.8 and Apache 1.3.29.

Yesterday I just upgraded to PHP4.4.4 and I have problems with Excel and Word attachments with IPB. Whenever I click on those attachments, I will get all sorts of funny characters all over my browser screen. However, image attachments are correctly displayed inline.

I added --with-mime-magic=/usr/local/apache/conf/magic to configure but nothing change. If I were to roll back to PHP 4.3.8, IPB works perfectly.

What have I missed. Please advise. TIA.

I don't think anybody here can answer that without knowing how IPB
serves up those attachments. Do they even go through PHP? If not, then
it becomes a web server configuration issue. If they do go through PHP,
what PHP functionality is IPB using? Perhaps they are using the
deprecated mime_magic stuff? They should be using pecl/fileinfo
functions if they need that stuff, but I think you will have to ask them.

-Rasmus
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