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+<?php
+
+/**
+ * This is a temporary location for these functions.
+ */
+
+class KTMime {
+    /**
+     * Get the mime type primary key for a specific mime type
+     *
+     * @param string detected mime type
+     * @param string filename
+     * @return int mime type primary key if found, else default mime type primary key (text/plain)
+     */
+    function getMimeTypeID($sMimeType, $sFileName) {
+        global $default;
+        $sql = $default->db;
+        $bOfficeDocument = false;
+
+        // application/msword seems to be set by all Office documents
+        if ($sMimeType == "application/msword") {
+            $bOfficeDocument = true;
+        }
+
+        if ($bOfficeDocument || (!$sMimeType)) {
+          // check by file extension
+          $sExtension = KTMime::stripAllButExtension($sFileName);
+          $sql->query(array("SELECT id FROM " . $default->mimetypes_table . " WHERE LOWER(filetypes) = ?", $sExtension));/*ok*/
+          if ($sql->next_record()) {
+              return $sql->f("id");
+          }
+        }
+
+        // get the mime type id
+        if (isset($sMimeType)) {
+            $sql->query(array("SELECT id FROM " . $default->mimetypes_table . " WHERE mimetypes = ?", $sMimeType));/*ok*/
+            if ($sql->next_record()) {
+                return $sql->f("id");
+            }
+        }
+
+        //otherwise return the default mime type
+        return KTMime::getDefaultMimeTypeID();
+    }
+
+    /**
+    * Get the default mime type, which is text/plain
+    *
+    * @return int default mime type
+    *
+    */
+    function getDefaultMimeTypeID() {
+        global $default;
+        $sql = $default->db;
+        $sql->query("SELECT id FROM " . $default->mimetypes_table . " WHERE mimetypes = 'text/plain'");/*ok*/
+        $sql->next_record();
+        //get the mime type id
+        return $sql->f("id");
+    }
+
+    function getMimeTypeName($iMimeTypeID) {
+        global $default;
+        $sql = $default->db;
+        $sql->query(array("SELECT mimetypes FROM " . $default->mimetypes_table . " WHERE id = ?", $iMimeTypeID));/*ok*/
+        if ($sql->next_record()) {
+            return $sql->f("mimetypes");
+        }
+        return "application/octet-stream";
+    }
+
+    /**
+    * Try well-defined methods for getting the MIME type for a file on disk.
+    * First try PECL's Fileinfo library, then try mime_content_type() builtin.
+    * If neither are available, returns NULL.
+    *
+    * @param string file on disk
+    * @return string mime time for given filename, or NULL
+    */
+    function getMimeTypeFromFile($sFileName) {
+        if (extension_loaded('fileinfo')) {
+            $res = finfo_open(FILEINFO_MIME);
+            $sType = finfo_file($res, $sFileName);
+        }
+
+        if (!$sType && function_exists('mime_content_type')) {
+            $sType = @mime_content_type($sFileName);
+        }
+
+        if ($sType) {
+            return preg_replace('/;.*$/', '', $sType);
+        }
+
+        return NULL;
+    }
+
+    /**
+    * Strip all but the extension from a file. For instance, input of
+    * 'foo.tif' would return 'tif'.
+    *
+    * @param string filename
+    * @return string extension for given file, without filename itself
+    */
+    function stripAllButExtension($sFileName) {
+        return strtolower(substr($sFileName, strpos($sFileName, ".")+1, strlen($sFileName) - strpos($sFileName, ".")));
+    }
+}