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Mime

The Hoa\Mime library.

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Hoa is a modular, extensible and structured set of PHP libraries. Moreover, Hoa aims at being a bridge between industrial and research worlds. The project is written primarily in PHP, first published in 2012. Key topics include: hoa, library, mime, mime-types, php.

Latest release: 3.17.01.10
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This library allows to manipulate a MIME types database and get some related
informations about streams.

Learn more.

Installation

With Composer, to include this library into
your dependencies, you need to
require hoa/mime:

sh
$ composer require hoa/mime '~3.0'

For more installation procedures, please read the Source
page
.

Testing

Before running the test suites, the development dependencies must be installed:

sh
$ composer install

Then, to run all the test suites:

sh
$ vendor/bin/hoa test:run

For more information, please read the contributor
guide
.

Quick usage

As a quick overview, we will see how to get general and stream-related
informations.

General informations

All we need is static methods Hoa\Mime\Mime::getExtensionsFromMime to get
extensions from a type and Hoa\Mime\Mime::getMimeFromExtension to get type
from an extension:

php
print_r(Hoa\Mime\Mime::getExtensionsFromMime('text/html')); /** * Will output: * Array * ( * [0] => html * [1] => htm * ) */ var_dump(Hoa\Mime\Mime::getMimeFromExtension('webm')); /** * Will output: * string(10) "video/webm" */

By default, Hoa\Mime\Mime uses the hoa://Library/Mime/Mime.types file as
database. We can change this behavior by calling the Hoa\Mime\Mime::compute
before any computations:

php
Hoa\Mime\Mime::compute('/etc/mime.types');

By instanciating the Hoa\Mime\Mime class with a stream, we are able to get
some informations about the stream, such as its extension, others extensions,
type, etc. Thus:

php
$type = new Hoa\Mime\Mime(new Hoa\File\Read('index.html')); var_dump( $type->getExtension(), $type->getOtherExtensions(), $type->getMime(), $type->isExperimental() ); /** * Will output: * string(4) "html" * array(1) { * [0]=> * string(3) "htm" * } * string(9) "text/html" * bool(false) */

Documentation

The
hack book of Hoa\Mime contains
detailed information about how to use this library and how it works.

To generate the documentation locally, execute the following commands:

sh
$ composer require --dev hoa/devtools $ vendor/bin/hoa devtools:documentation --open

More documentation can be found on the project's website:
hoa-project.net.

Getting help

There are mainly two ways to get help:

Contribution

Do you want to contribute? Thanks! A detailed contributor
guide
explains
everything you need to know.

License

Hoa is under the New BSD License (BSD-3-Clause). Please, see
LICENSE for details.

The following projects are using this library:

  • E-Conf, E-Conf is a Conference
    Management System,
  • sabre/katana, A contact,
    calendar, task list and file server.

Contributors

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