PHP Media type (MIME) detector

Detecting MIME Content-type in PHP is easy with mime_content_type or Fileinfo. But Fileinfo as an extension is sometimes not available on the server. The function mime_content_type wants a path to the filesystem as argument and doesn't process if we only have a string value. This package makes it easy to detect the mime types of the content of a given file or string, without any extension dependencies.

Installation

Install the package easily via composer:

composer require intervention/mimesniffer

Usage

Here are some code samples, to show how the library is handled.

use Intervention\MimeSniffer\MimeSniffer;
use Intervention\MimeSniffer\Types\ImageJpeg;

// universal factory method
$sniffer = MimeSniffer::create($content);

// or detect given string
$sniffer = MimeSniffer::createFromString($content);

// or detect given file
$sniffer = MimeSniffer::createFromFilename('image.jpg');

// or detect from file pointer
$sniffer = MimeSniffer::createFromFilename(fopen('test.jpg', 'r'));

// returns object of detected type 
$type = $sniffer->getType(); 

$bool = $type->isBinary(); // check if we have binary data
$bool = $type->isImage(); // check if we are dealing with an image
$bool = $type->isVideo(); // check video data was detected
$bool = $type->isAudio(); // check if we have detected audio data
$bool = $type->isArchive(); // check if an archive was detected
$type = (string) $type; // cast type to string (e.g. "image/jpeg")

// you can also check, if the content matches a specific type
$bool = $sniffer->matches(new ImageJpeg);

// or check, if the content matches an array of types
$bool = $sniffer->matches([ImageJpeg::class, ImageGif::class]);

// or check, if the content matches an array of type objects
$bool = $sniffer->matches([new ImageJpeg, $type]);

If your prefer non-static initialization:

use Intervention\MimeSniffer\MimeSniffer;

// create instance with constructor
$sniffer = new MimeSniffer($content);

// with setter for given content
$type = $sniffer->setFromString($other_content)->getType();

// or with setter for filename
$type = $sniffer->setFromFilename('images/image.jpg')->getType();

// or with setter for file pointer
$type = $sniffer->setFromPointer(fopen('images/image.jpg', 'r'))->getType();

Currently only the following file types can be detected. More will be added in a next release.

Images

Image encoded as JPEG raw or in the JFIF or Exif file format
Image file encoded in the Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)
Image encoded in the Portable Network Graphics format (PNG)
Image encoded as BMP file, a bitmap format
Image encoded in High Efficiency Image File Format (HEIC/HEIF)
Icon encoded in ICO file format
Image in Google WebP image format
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)
Image encoded Photoshop Document file format (PSD)
AV1 Image File Format (AVIF)

Videos

AVI
MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video
MKV media container

Audio

MP3 file
FLAC file

Other

PDF document
OGG media container
SQLite Database
application/octet-stream (default binary)
text/plain (default)

Contributing

Contributions are welcome. Please note the following guidelines before submiting your pull request.

Follow PSR-2 coding standards.
Write tests for new functions and added features

Development & Testing

With this package comes a Docker image to build a test suite and analysis container. To build this container you have to have Docker installed on your system. You can run all tests with this command.

docker-compose run --rm --build tests

Run the static analyzer on the code base.

docker-compose run --rm --build analysis

Authors

This library is developed and maintained by Oliver Vogel

License

Intervention MimeSniffer is licensed under the MIT License.

Intervention/mimesniffer