neoncitylights / php-media-type

PHP library for supporting IANA media types

MediaType

MediaType is a PHP library for dealing with IANA media types as entities.

This library is compliant to RFC 2045¹, and takes references from RFC 2046², RFC 6838³, and the WHATWG Mime Sniffing Standard⁴.

Install

composer require neoncitylights/media-type

Usage

<?php

use Neoncitylights\MediaType\MediaType;

$mediaType = MediaType::newFromString( 'text/plain;charset=UTF-8' );

print( $mediaType->getType() );
// 'text'

print( $mediaType->getSubType() );
// 'plain'

print( $mediaType->getEssence() );
// 'text/plain'

print( $mediaType->getParameterValue( 'charset' ) );
// 'UTF-8'

License

MediaType is licensed under the MIT license.

Footnotes

1. Freed, N., Innosoft, & Borenstein, N. (1996, November). Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies. Retrieved October 29, 2020, from https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2045 ↩

2. Freed, N., I., & Borenstein, N. (2016, November). Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types. Retrieved October 29, 2020, from https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2046 ↩

3. Freed, N., O., Klensin, J., Hansen, T., & A. (2013, January). Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures. Retrieved October 29, 2020, from https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6838 ↩

4. Hemsley, G. P., Barth, A., & Hickson, I. (2020, September 30). MIME Sniffing Standard. Retrieved October 29, 2020, from https://mimesniff.spec.whatwg.org/ ↩