PHP Manual: Read 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 (value may vary with used library, use of constants is recommended)**
Value	Type	Constant
0	text	TYPETEXT
1	multipart	TYPEMULTIPART
2	message	TYPEMESSAGE
3	application	TYPEAPPLICATION
4	audio	TYPEAUDIO
5	image	TYPEIMAGE
6	video	TYPEVIDEO
7	model	TYPEMODEL
8	other	TYPEOTHER

**Transfer encodings (value may vary with used library, use of constants is recommended)**
Value	Type	Constant
0	7bit	ENC7BIT
1	8bit	ENC8BIT
2	Binary	ENCBINARY
3	Base64	ENCBASE64
4	Quoted-Printable	ENCQUOTEDPRINTABLE
5	other	ENCOTHER

imap_fetchstructure

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