Re: MIME module for PEAR

On 26 Aug 2003 at 12:48, Piotr Klaban wrote: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 05:29:18PM +0200, Arend van Beelen jr. wrote: > > I've written a MIME class which uses the Shared MIME Database from > > freedesktop.org. It can determine MIME types of files and query for > > details about MIME types. Someone suggested I should submit this class > > to PEAR. Any thoughts about this? > You can find the module itself > on > http://www.liacs.nl/~dvbeelen/MIME.php.txt. The module > is written > in > PHP5, a version for PHP4 will be available shortly. > > +1 for this class but I suggest you choose a different name. > MIME is much more than mime types. Maybe the class name should > be something similar to MIME_Type, or MIME_Magic etc. This raises another interesting question. In which category should we put it? Stefan