imap_fetchstructure

(PHP 3, PHP 4 >= 4.0.0)

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
dparametersAn array of objects where each object has an "attribute" and a "value" property corresponding to the parameters on the Content-disposition MIMEheader.
ifparametersTRUE if the parameters array exists
parametersAn array of objects where each object has an "attribute" and a "value" property.
partsAn array of objects identical in structure to the top-level object, each of which corresponds to a MIME body part.

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().