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• allan Posts: 63,498Questions: 1Answers: 10,470 Site admin

  April 2017 Answer ✓

  In the php/Editor/Upload.php file you will be able to find:

  $finfo = finfo_open(FILEINFO_MIME);
  

  Changing that to be:

  $finfo = \finfo_open(FILEINFO_MIME);
  

  I think should resolve it.

  Could you give me the full version string for your PHP install please? I'd expected this to be a very early 5.3 release from the error message you are seeing. I'm really surprised to see it in 5.6.

  Allan
• stevevance Posts: 58Questions: 6Answers: 1

  August 2017

  The error message I'm getting is

  <br />
  <b>Fatal error</b>:  Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function finfo_open() in /php/lib/Editor/Upload.php:603
  Stack trace:
  #0 /php/lib/Editor/Upload.php(431): DataTables\Editor\Upload-&gt;_dbExec(Object(DataTables\Database))
  #1 /php/lib/Editor/Editor.php(1239): DataTables\Editor\Upload-&gt;exec(Object(DataTables\Editor))
  #2 /php/lib/Editor/Editor.php(871): DataTables\Editor-&gt;_upload(Array)
  #3 /php/lib/Editor/Editor.php(661): DataTables\Editor-&gt;_process(Array)
  #4 /php/editor.files.php(182): DataTables\Editor-&gt;process(Array)
  #5 {main}
    thrown in <b>/php/lib/Editor/Upload.php</b> on line <b>603</b><br />
  

  I added the preceding backslash as you suggested and it hasn't changed anything. This is running on PHP 7.1.
• stevevance Posts: 58Questions: 6Answers: 1

  August 2017 edited August 2017

  I replaced the function in that file with mime_content_type() and that doesn't work either! That function is also not found on my PHP server, for whatever reason.

  I created an independent file with only
  ````
  <?php
  echo mime_content_type("info.php");

  <?php > ```` And this has a fatal error, indicating that the necessary functions don't exist on my server's installation of PHP. ?>

  It turns out that Dreamhost doesn't include the correct extension by default, so I needed to add extension=fileinfo.so to my php.ini file.
• allan Posts: 63,498Questions: 1Answers: 10,470 Site admin

  August 2017

  It sounds like the Dreamhost PHP might be a bit limited. mime_content_info is a core part of PHP. It might be worth asking Dreamhost about that.

  Allan