MIME

The MIME class provides facilities for mapping file extensions to MIME types and vice versa and obtaining human-readable descriptions from MIME types.

MIME is an abstract base class.

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Synopsis

uses('mime');

Description

Instances of the MIME class are never created; all methods are static.

Example

• mimetest.php

Public Static Methods

• MIME::extForType(): Return the preferred file extension for a specified MIME type
• MIME::typeForExt(): Return the MIME type matching a specified file extension
• MIME::description(): Return a human-readable description of a MIME type
• MIME::register()