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fileGetMimeType

Gets the MIME type for the file path/file object you have specified.

fileGetMimeType(file, strict)

returns string

Argument Reference

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
file	any	Yes		Name of the file object or full path on disk to the file if strict is set to true. If you do not specify the full path, the file is assumed to be present in the temp directory, as returned by the function getTempDirectory.
strict	boolean	No	true	If false, determines the file type by extension. The default value is true.

Two PDFs and two text files with and without strict mode

Assume that you have a file named test.pdf in temp directory and test.txt in the same folder, and you want to check the MIME type. Here test.txt is a copy of test.pdf with extension renamed to txt.

<cfscript>
	mimeTypes = '';
	mimeTypes = listAppend(mimeTypes, fileGetMimeType(expandPath('/folder1/test.pdf')));
	mimeTypes = listAppend(mimeTypes, fileGetMimeType(expandPath('/folder1/test.pdf'),false));
	mimeTypes = listAppend(mimeTypes, fileGetMimeType(expandPath('/folder1/test.txt')));
	mimeTypes = listAppend(mimeTypes, fileGetMimeType(expandPath('/folder1/test.txt'),false));
	writeOutput(mimeTypes);
</cfscript>

Expected Result: application/pdf,application/pdf,text/plain,text/plain

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