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metasyntactical/mime
====================

The MetaSyntactical MIMEtype detection component

v3.0.0(4y ago)51.2k1[1 PRs](https://github.com/MetaSyntactical/Mime/pulls)1MITPHPPHP 8.0.\*

Since Sep 10Pushed 1y ago1 watchersCompare

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README
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[](#readme)

[![Build Status](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/fe3ca5eac623f91b8e8d19da4529976b19e2f6cbb6e715e62eccd353bd0bf4d6/68747470733a2f2f7365637572652e7472617669732d63692e6f72672f4d65746153796e746163746963616c2f4d696d652e706e673f6272616e63683d6d6173746572)](http://travis-ci.org/MetaSyntactical/Mime)

What is MetaSyntactical/Mime?
-----------------------------

[](#what-is-metasyntacticalmime)

MetaSyntactical/Mime is part of the MetaSyntactical PHP 5.6+ components library and provide a system independent implementation of the magic.mime MIMEtype detection.

MetaSyntactical/Mime is based on the [Zend Framework proposal](http://framework.zend.com/wiki/x/9lI) for Zend\_Mime\_Magic of Matthew Ratzloff and the derived implementation as [Google Code project](http://code.google.com/p/php-reader/)of Sven Vollbehr. I have transformed the code to use namespaces, better exception handling and added unit tests.

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

MetaSyntactical/Mime is only supported on PHP 5.6.28 and up.

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

[](#installation)

The best way to install MetaSyntactical/Mime is to use Composer ().

Contributing
------------

[](#contributing)

MetaSyntactical/Mime is an open source project.

###  Health Score

37

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LowBetter than 81% of packages

Maintenance29

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity22

Limited adoption so far

Community10

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity73

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% 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 ~648 days

Recently: every ~557 days

Total

6

Last Release

1796d ago

Major Versions

1.0.1 → v2.0.02017-04-22

2.x-dev → v3.0.02021-07-29

PHP version history (4 changes)1.0.0PHP >=5.3.10

v2.0.0PHP >=5.6.28, <7.2.0

2.1.0PHP ~7.2|~7.3|~7.4

v3.0.0PHP 8.0.\*

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/461576?v=4)[Daniel Kreuer](/maintainers/dkreuer)[@dkreuer](https://github.com/dkreuer)

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Top Contributors

[![dkreuer](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/461576?v=4)](https://github.com/dkreuer "dkreuer (23 commits)")

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Tags

mimelibrary

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

Static AnalysisPsalm

Type Coverage Yes

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