Newer versions of this extension fix the bug from the previous note.
Still, if you want to ensure there's no match, you can use the array, as the array will remain empty.
I used this fact in the following technique to ensure good content negotiation between application/xhtml+xml and text/html, since IE sends only "*/*" and thus receives application/xhtml+xml if you use the current sample from the documentation.
<?php
$bestContentType = http_negotiate_content_type(array('application/xhtml+xml', 'text/html'),
$contentTypes);
$contentType = (empty($contentTypes) ? 'text/html' : $bestContentType);
http_send_content_type($contentType);
?>
Note that at the time of writing, Opera accepts text/html with this approach, because it places application/xhtml+xml with a lower qualifier.
http_negotiate_content_type
(PECL pecl_http >= 0.19.0)
http_negotiate_content_type — Negotiate client's preferred content type
Description
string http_negotiate_content_type
( array
$supported
[, array &$result
] )This function negotiates the clients preferred content type based on its Accept HTTP header. The qualifier is recognized and content types without qualifier are rated highest.
Parameters
-
supported -
array containing the supported content types as values
-
result -
will be filled with an array containing the negotiation results
Return Values
Returns the negotiated content type or the default content type (i.e. first array entry) if none match.
Examples
Example #1 Using http_negotiate_content_type()
<?php
$content_types = array('application/xhtml+xml', 'text/html');
http_send_content_type(http_negotiate_content_type($content_types));
?>
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User Contributed Notes 3 notes
Vasil Rangelov ¶
17 years ago
Pieter van Beek ¶
17 years ago
The documentation says:
Returns the negotiated content type or the default content type (i.e. first array entry) if none match.
It would seem that in fact, this method returns the empty string or NULL if none match.
Richard Smith ¶
9 years ago
This function hasn't existed for years. So unless you have an ancient build of pecl_http, you'll need to work out how to use the wholly undocumented HTTP::Header class.
