MimeType
Improves mime_type detection over finfo without dependencies on any system utility (such as the Linux file command)., (*1)
Uses a local cached copy of the mime types from Apache's repository:, (*2)
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk/docs/conf/mime.types, (*3)
Installation
Using Composer
Edit composer.json and add:, (*4)
"brianreeve/mime-type": "dev-master"
Usage
use BrianReeve/MimeType/MimeType;
$mimeType = MimeType::detect($path);
The detect method first looks for a match by extension in the list from Apache, then tries finfo, lastly defaults to text/plain., (*5)
To Update to the Latest
To update the cache, run, (*6)
php src/BrianReeve/MimeType/Utils/generate_mime_types_array.php
Updated mime types will be saved to, (*7)
src/BrianReeve/MimeType/lib/mime_types.json