# Stop out put

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stop-out-put/193444>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [July 13, 2006, 1:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stop-out-put/193444 "2006-07-13T13:02:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 1:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stop-out-put/193444/1 "2006-07-13T13:02:00Z")

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i have this code that works great

It does everything i want but a by product is its outputs all the time

is there anything to stop it outputing? If not then no worrys

```php

if (!function_exists('mime_content_type')){
 $filetype = system(trim('file -bi ' . escapeshellarg ($filename)));
}else{
 $filetype = mime_content_type($file);
}

```

Cheers in advance