Comments on: Displaying File Icons for Downloads With PHP

By: Large balloon guy

Large balloon guy — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:07:46 +0000

Interesting thing nacho is mentioning. It would be cool if it was a system icon so the users os would know what to do with the file. I have never seen anything like it in PHP. We are more talking about browser restrictions here.

By: Rich Lyon

Rich Lyon — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 23:07:05 +0000

There is a much easier method,

Once you have the extension, do something like:

$ext = // get extension

if( file_exists(”./icons/”.$ext.”.png”) ){
$img = “./icons/”.$ext.”.png”;
} else {
$img = “./icons/unkown.png”;
}

print “”;

By: NAcho

NAcho — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 13:54:28 +0000

It will be better to obtain the icon directly from the system.
In java that can be easily achieved:

//Create a temporary file with the specified extension
file = File.createTempFile(”icon”, “.” + extension);

FileSystemView view = FileSystemView.getFileSystemView();
Icon icon = view.getSystemIcon(file);

//Delete the temporary file
file.delete();

i dont know how to do it in php, but sure it is possible, since the icon is provided by the system.
Regards,
Nacho