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imap_fetchstructure

(PHP 3, PHP 4 >= 4.0b1)

imap_fetchstructure --  Read the structure of a particular message

Description

object imap_fetchstructure (int imap_stream, int msg_number [, int flags])

This function fetches all the structured information for a given message. The optional flags parameter only has a single option, FT_UID, which tells the function to treat the msg_number argument as a UID. The returned object includes the envelope, internal date, size, flags and body structure along with a similar object for each mime attachement. The structure of the returned objects is as follows:

Table 1. Returned Objects for imap_fetchstructure()

typePrimary body type
encodingBody transfer encoding
ifsubtypeTRUE if there is a subtype string
subtypeMIME subtype
ifdescriptionTRUE if there is a description string
descriptionContent description string
ifidTRUE if there is an identification string
idIdentification string
linesNumber of lines
bytesNumber of bytes
ifdispositionTRUE if there is a disposition string
dispositionDisposition string
ifdparametersTRUE if the dparameters array exists
dparametersDisposition parameter array
ifparametersTRUE if the parameters array exists
parametersMIME parameters array
partsArray of objects describing each message part

  1. dparameters is an array of objects where each object has an "attribute" and a "value" property.

  2. Parameter is an array of objects where each object has an "attributte" and a "value" property.

  3. Parts is an array of objects identical in structure to the top-level object, with the limitation that it cannot contain further 'parts' objects.

Table 2. Primary body type

0text
1multipart
2message
3application
4audio
5image
6video
7other

Table 3. Transfer encodings

07BIT
18BIT
2BINARY
3BASE64
4QUOTED-PRINTABLE
5OTHER

See also: imap_fetchbody().

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