IMAP Functions
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imap_fetchstructure

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

imap_fetchstructureRead the structure of a particular message

Description

object imap_fetchstructure ( resource $imap_stream , int $msg_number [, int $options = 0 ] )

Fetches all the structured information for a given message.

Parameters

imap_stream

An IMAP stream returned by imap_open().

msg_number

The message number

options

This optional parameter only has a single option, FT_UID, which tells the function to treat the msg_number argument as a UID.

Return Values

Returns an object includes the envelope, internal date, size, flags and body structure along with a similar object for each mime attachment. The structure of the returned objects is as follows:

Returned Objects for imap_fetchstructure()
type Primary body type
encoding Body transfer encoding
ifsubtype TRUE if there is a subtype string
subtype MIME subtype
ifdescription TRUE if there is a description string
description Content description string
ifid TRUE if there is an identification string
id Identification string
lines Number of lines
bytes Number of bytes
ifdisposition TRUE if there is a disposition string
disposition Disposition string
ifdparameters TRUE if the dparameters array exists
dparameters An array of objects where each object has an "attribute" and a "value" property corresponding to the parameters on the Content-disposition MIME header.
ifparameters TRUE if the parameters array exists
parameters An array of objects where each object has an "attribute" and a "value" property.
parts An array of objects identical in structure to the top-level object, each of which corresponds to a MIME body part.

Primary body type (may vary with used library)
0text
1multipart
2message
3application
4audio
5image
6video
7other

Transfer encodings (may vary with used library)
07BIT
18BIT
2BINARY
3BASE64
4QUOTED-PRINTABLE
5OTHER

See Also


IMAP Functions
PHP Manual