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skyzyx/mimetypes
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Creates a JSON document containing a thorough list of file extensions => mime types as provided by the Apache httpd project.

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Mimetypes
=========

[](#mimetypes)

Creates a JSON document containing a thorough list of file extensions => mime types as provided by the [Apache httpd project](http://httpd.apache.org).

How to use
----------

[](#how-to-use)

### Step 1

[](#step-1)

Download the latest copy of the Apache `mime-types` file into the same directory as the `generate` script.

```
cd mimetypes &&
wget --no-check-certificate https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/branches/2.4.x/docs/conf/mime.types
```

### Step 1.5 (optional)

[](#step-15-optional)

Update the provided `customize.json` document with any additional mimetypes to define, or any that you would like to override.

### Step 2

[](#step-2)

Run the `generate` script.

```
./generate
```

In the end, a `mimetypes.json` document will be generated. This JSON document can be easily parsed into a map/dictionary/associative array by pretty much every programming language with little effort.

It also generates a backing PHP class if you want to use the data in PHP-land.

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

[](#installation)

### Install source from GitHub

[](#install-source-from-github)

To install the source code:

```
git clone git://github.com/skyzyx/mimetypes.git
```

And use it in your scripts:

```
$mimetypes = json_decode('/path/to/mimetypes/mimetypes.json', true);
$type = $mimetypes['html'];
#=> text/html

// ...or...

use Skyzyx\Components\Mimetypes\Mimetypes;
$type = Mimetypes::getInstance()->fromExtension('html');
#=> text/html
```

### Install with Composer

[](#install-with-composer)

If you're using [Composer](http://getcomposer.org) to manage dependencies, you can add the mimetypes with it.

```
{
    "require": {
        "skyzyx/mimetypes": ">=1.0"
    }
}
```

See Also...
-----------

[](#see-also)

For a similar-yet-different approach (including reverse-lookups from `mimetypes => extensions`), check out [dflydev-apache-mime-types](https://github.com/dflydev/dflydev-apache-mime-types).

License & Copyright
-----------------------

[](#license--copyright)

Copyright (c) 2010-2013 [Ryan Parman](http://ryanparman.com). Licensed for use under the terms of the [MIT license](http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php). See the [list of contributors](https://github.com/skyzyx/mimetypes/contributors) for more author information.

###  Health Score

42

—

FairBetter than 90% of packages

Maintenance30

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity42

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community20

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity62

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 92.9% 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 ~139 days

Total

4

Last Release

4796d ago

PHP version history (2 changes)1.0PHP >=5.2

1.1PHP >=5.3

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/39447?v=4)[Ryan Parman](/maintainers/skyzyx)[@skyzyx](https://github.com/skyzyx)

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Top Contributors

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