PHP Manual: imap_fetchstructure

Description

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

This function fetches all the structured information for a given message. The optional options 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 attachment. The structure of the returned objects is as follows:

Table 1. 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 MIMEheader.
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.

Table 2. Primary body type

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

Table 3. Transfer encodings

0	7BIT
1	8BIT
2	BINARY
3	BASE64
4	QUOTED-PRINTABLE
5	OTHER