Accessing content types from a snippet

Within a snippet I am attempting to look up MIME type values for a specific file extension (as specified via System > Content Types). I discovered the $modx->contentTypes property, but it seems to be null. Is this by design or is it supposed to contain values?

Since it is null, I am using the following code to retrieve the content types:


Is this the best way to access content types, or is there a better or more efficient way?

Thanks,
Mike

Apparently it is. I looked in the code and it appears that the $contentTypes variable is never set. Also, the content type getlist processor does just what you're doing.

Cool, thank you. I looked in the code and that appears to be the case.

Another option for my scenario might be something like what the getFileContentType method of the modImport class does. [ed. note: last edited this post 13 years, 1 month ago.]

Of course, one would need to make sure extensions passed to the query are sanitized if using or adapting getFileContentType.

Here's an example of getting a specific content type with a sanitized extension for MySQL:
[ed. note: last edited this post 13 years, 1 month ago.]