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Detect the MIME Type of a file
https://github.com/pear/mime_type

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Detect the MIME Type of a file

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MIME_Type
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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`__.

__ http://pear.php.net/package/MIME_Type/docs

Detecting a file's MIME 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

.. image:: https://travis-ci.org/pear/MIME_Type.svg?branch=master
:target: 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.