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Nice double-line spacing there :-/

Posted in The Accept Header.

Sun, 05 Jun 2011 at 01:06:57 GMT

Just so happens that I'm parsing this stuff for a hobby project this weekend; I have the following code snippet for PHP 5.3 that populates an array in order of preference.

Feel free to take and adapt as appropriate.

<?php
 
  protected function parseAcceptHeader() {
 
    $hdr = $this->headers['Accept']; 
 
    $accept = array();
 
    foreach (preg_split('/\s*,\s*/', $hdr) as $i => $term) {
 
      $o = new \stdclass;
 
      $o->pos = $i;
 
      if (preg_match(",^(\S+)\s*;\s*(?:q|level)=([0-9\.]+),i", $term, $M)) {
 
        $o->type = $M[1];
 
        $o->q = (double)$M[2];
 
      } else {
 
        $o->type = $term;
 
        $o->q = 1;
 
      }
 
      $accept[] = $o;
 
    } 
 
    usort($accept, function ($a, $b) {
 
      /* first tier: highest q factor wins */
 
      $diff = $b->q - $a->q;
 
      if ($diff > 0) { 
 
        $diff = 1;
 
      } else if ($diff < 0) {
 
        $diff = -1;
 
      } else {
 
        /* tie-breaker: first listed item wins */
 
        $diff = $a->pos - $b->pos;
 
      }
 
      return $diff;
 
    });
 
    $this->accept = array();
 
    foreach ($accept as $a) {
 
      $this->accept[$a->type] = $a->type;
 
    } 
 
  }
 
?>

And accompanying unit test:

<?php
 
  function testAcceptHeader() {
 
    $c = new MVC\Controller('', '', array(), array('Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8,application/json'));
 
    $this->assertEquals($c->accept, array(
 
      "text/html" => "text/html",
 
      "application/xhtml+xml" => "application/xhtml+xml",
 
      "application/json" => "application/json",
 
      "application/xml" => "application/xml",
 
      "*/*" => "*/*"
 
    ));
 
  } 
 
?>

Posted in The Accept Header.

Sun, 05 Jun 2011 at 01:06:17 GMT