pear / mime_type
Detect the MIME Type of a file
v1.4.1
2015-11-04 19:57 UTC
Requires
- pear/pear-core-minimal: ^1.9.5
Requires (Dev)
Suggests
- pear/system_command: Install optionally via your project's composer.json
This package is auto-updated.
Last update: 2024-10-16 19:11:00 UTC
README
PHP library to detect, parse and work with MIME types.
Features:
- Parse MIME types
- Supports full RFC 2045 specification
- Many utility functions for working with and determining info about types
- Most functions can be called statically
- Autodetect a file's mime-type, either with
fileinfo
extension,mime_magic
extension, the 'file' command or an in-built file extension mapping list
Installation
PEAR
$ pear install MIME_Type
Composer
$ composer require pear/mime_type
Usage
See the examples in the docs/examples/
directory and
the official documentation.
Detecting a file's MIME type
<?php require_once 'MIME/Type.php'; $type = MIME_Type::autoDetect('/path/to/file'); if (PEAR::isError($type)) { echo 'Error: ' . $type->getMessage() . "\n"; exit(1); } else { echo 'MIME type: ' . $type . "\n"; } ?>
Links
- Homepage
- http://pear.php.net/package/MIME_Type
- Bug tracker
- http://pear.php.net/bugs/search.php?cmd=display&package_name[]=MIME_Type
- Documentation
- http://pear.php.net/package/MIME_Type/docs
- Unit test status
https://travis-ci.org/pear/MIME_Type
Development
Updating extension mapping
The built-in extension-to-type mapping list can be updated from apache's source code repository:
$ ./scripts/update-mimelist.php ... 785 new, 28 updated, 168 same, 5 own, 986 total Code updated
The file MIME/Type/Extension.php
will be changed now.