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horstoeko/mimedb
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Get mimetypes by fileextensions and visa versa

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MimeDB
======

[](#mimedb)

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Table of Contents
-----------------

[](#table-of-contents)

- [MimeDB](#mimedb)
    - [Table of Contents](#table-of-contents)
    - [License](#license)
    - [Overview](#overview)
    - [Dependencies](#dependencies)
    - [Installation](#installation)
    - [Usage](#usage)
        - [Get all MimeTypes by file extensions](#get-all-mimetypes-by-file-extensions)
        - [Get all file extensions by MimeType](#get-all-file-extensions-by-mimetype)

License
-------

[](#license)

The code in this project is provided under the [MIT](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) license.

Overview
--------

[](#overview)

With `horstoeko/mimedb` you can receive mimetypes by file extension and visa versa.

Dependencies
------------

[](#dependencies)

This package has no dependencies.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

There is one recommended way to install `horstoeko/mimedb` via [Composer](https://getcomposer.org/):

- adding the dependency to your `composer.json` file:

```
  "require": {
      ..
      "horstoeko/mimedb":"^1",
      ..
  },
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

For detailed eplanation you may have a look in the [examples](https://github.com/horstoeko/mimedb/tree/master/examples) of this package and the documentation attached to every release.

### Get all MimeTypes by file extensions

[](#get-all-mimetypes-by-file-extensions)

```
use horstoeko\mimedb\MimeDb;

require dirname(__FILE__) . "/../vendor/autoload.php";

$mimeDb = MimeDb::singleton();

// OUTPUT:
//   application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document

echo $mimeDb->findFirstMimeTypeByExtension('.docx') . PHP_EOL;

// OUTPUT:
//   application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document

foreach ($mimeDb->findAllMimeTypesByExtension('.docx') as $mimetype) {
    echo $mimetype . PHP_EOL;
}
```

### Get all file extensions by MimeType

[](#get-all-file-extensions-by-mimetype)

```
use horstoeko\mimedb\MimeDb;

error_reporting(E_ERROR | E_WARNING | E_PARSE);

$mimeDb = MimeDb::singleton();

// OUTPUT:
//   docx

echo $mimeDb->findFirstFileExtensionByMimeType('application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document') . PHP_EOL;

// OUTPUT:
//   mkv
//   mk3d
//   mks

foreach ($mimeDb->findAllFileExtensionsByMimeType('video/x-matroska') as $fileExtension) {
    echo $fileExtension . PHP_EOL;
}

// OUTPUT:
//   docx

foreach ($mimeDb->findAllFileExtensionsByMimeType('application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document') as $fileExtension) {
    echo $fileExtension . PHP_EOL;
}
```

###  Health Score

46

—

FairBetter than 93% of packages

Maintenance65

Regular maintenance activity

Popularity48

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community15

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity44

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 64.3% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~55 days

Recently: every ~109 days

Total

9

Last Release

532d ago

PHP version history (2 changes)v1.0.0PHP ^7.3|^7.4|^8.0|^8.1|^8.2|^8.3

v1.0.7PHP >=7.3

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/24de09032b9a378d782bb7eac3f60914f64967e5a68d51527439dcf7c51711ba?d=identicon)[horstoeko](/maintainers/horstoeko)

---

Top Contributors

[![horstoeko](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2326713?v=4)](https://github.com/horstoeko "horstoeko (9 commits)")[![dependabot[bot]](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/in/29110?v=4)](https://github.com/dependabot[bot] "dependabot[bot] (5 commits)")

---

Tags

fileextensionmime-databasemimetypephpphp7php8mimetypefile extension

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

Static AnalysisPHPStan

Code StylePHP\_CodeSniffer

Type Coverage Yes

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