Centralised mimetype function

git-svn-id: https://code.elgg.org/elgg/trunk@3212 36083f99-b078-4883-b0ff-0f9b5a30f544

1 files changed, 38 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/engine/lib/filestore.php b/engine/lib/filestore.php
index e33730021..67330c4e5 100644
--- a/engine/lib/filestore.php
+++ b/engine/lib/filestore.php
@@ -1247,6 +1247,44 @@
 		}
 	}
 	
+	/**
+	 * Returns an overall file type from the mimetype
+	 *
+	 * @param string $mimetype The MIME type
+	 * @return string The overall type
+	 */
+	function get_general_file_type($mimetype) {
+		
+		switch($mimetype) {
+			
+			case "application/msword":
+										return "document";
+										break;
+			case "application/pdf":
+										return "document";
+										break;
+			
+		}
+		
+		if (substr_count($mimetype,'text/'))
+			return "document";
+			
+		if (substr_count($mimetype,'audio/'))
+			return "audio";
+			
+		if (substr_count($mimetype,'image/'))
+			return "image";
+			
+		if (substr_count($mimetype,'video/'))
+			return "video";
+
+		if (substr_count($mimetype,'opendocument'))
+			return "document";	
+			
+		return "general";
+		
+	}
+	
 	
 	/// Variable holding the default datastore
 	$DEFAULT_FILE_STORE = NULL;