Re: package proposal: MIME_ContentType

----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Jansen" <mj@php.net> To: "Ian Eure" <ieure@debian.org> Cc: <pear-dev@lists.php.net> Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 3:35 PM Subject: Re: [PEAR-DEV] package proposal: MIME_ContentType > On Wed Jun 11, 2003 at 12:4833PM -0700, Ian Eure wrote: > > MIME_ContentType is a PEAR package for looking up a file's mimetype. > > > > Features: > > * Uses the system's mime database (/etc/mime.types) by default > > * Can find the mime-type for a file extension. (forward lookup) > > * Can find valid extensions for a mime-type (backward lookup) > > * MIME types may be added and removed. > > * New mime.types file may be written containing all the types MIME_ContentType > > knows about. > > > > It's under the PHP license, and the code is available for review at > > http://people.debian.org/~ieure/ContentType.phps > > I'm +1 on this. But why is the class derived from PEAR? I don't see a > need for this ... I'm not very sure with this class, as from PHP 4.3.0 there is already native mime_magic support in PHP (http://es2.php.net/manual/en/function.mime-content-type.php). Others proposed some nice implementations time ago: 1) http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=pear-dev&m=105464075007193&w=2 2) http://cvs.horde.org/co.php/horde/lib/MIME/Magic.php The most completed of the three or a mix of all should be the one to commit imo. Tomas V.V.Cox CCed to the authors of the other classes