How to select content type from HTTP Accept header in PHP

Question

I\'m trying to build a standard compliant website framework which serves XHTML 1.1 as application/xhtml+xml or HTML 4.01 as text/html depending on the browser support. Curre

Answer 1

Little snippet from my library:

function getBestSupportedMimeType($mimeTypes = null) {
    // Values will be stored in this array
    $AcceptTypes = Array ();

    // Accept header is case insensitive, and whitespace isn’t important
    $accept = strtolower(str_replace(' ', '', $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT']));
    // divide it into parts in the place of a ","
    $accept = explode(',', $accept);
    foreach ($accept as $a) {
        // the default quality is 1.
        $q = 1;
        // check if there is a different quality
        if (strpos($a, ';q=')) {
            // divide "mime/type;q=X" into two parts: "mime/type" i "X"
            list($a, $q) = explode(';q=', $a);
        }
        // mime-type $a is accepted with the quality $q
        // WARNING: $q == 0 means, that mime-type isn’t supported!
        $AcceptTypes[$a] = $q;
    }
    arsort($AcceptTypes);

    // if no parameter was passed, just return parsed data
    if (!$mimeTypes) return $AcceptTypes;

    $mimeTypes = array_map('strtolower', (array)$mimeTypes);

    // let’s check our supported types:
    foreach ($AcceptTypes as $mime => $q) {
       if ($q && in_array($mime, $mimeTypes)) return $mime;
    }
    // no mime-type found
    return null;
}

example usage:

$mime = getBestSupportedMimeType(Array ('application/xhtml+xml', 'text/html'));