extracting sender info from e-mail

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[jason_m]

using [php.net ] as a guide i am attempting to use the sender attribute of the imap functionalities to extract the sender e-mail address.

any help would be great! thanks!

<?php
$host='{mail.mysite.com/notls/imap4}INBOX'; //Host to connect
$user='[e-mail]';
$pass='mypw';
$from='[e-mail]'; //Mail to send from

$mail=@imap_open($host,$user,$pass) or die("Can't connect: " . imap_last_error());
if($mail){
$mails=imap_num_msg($mail);
if($mails==0) {
   echo "<i>no mails.</i>";
  } else {  
   echo "$mails mails<p>";

   for($i=1;$i<=$mails;$i++) {
    $chead=imap_headerinfo($mail,$i);
    $mid=ltrim($chead->Msgno);
    
    echo "<a href='page.php?see=$mid'>";
     
    echo $chead->subject;
    echo "</a>";
    echo "<br>";
    $a=$chead->sender;
    echo($a[0]); //this was an attempt to extract anything from $chead->sender. not working
    
    echo "<br>\n";
   }
}
}
?>

[Matthew1980]

Hi there Jason_m,

I've not used this before, but a quick read of php dot net tells you are the function returns objects (and quotes a long list that is there too), so:-

echo $chead->subject;
echo "</a>\n\r";
echo "<br>\n\r";
echo $chead->sender;
echo "<br>\n";

That would seem to be the way to access that information, other than that I couldn't say, but from the code you gave, that was the only thing that looked odd ;)

Although, I wonder if you could print_r($chead) to see exactly what info is available to you, just a thought though

Sorry I can't be more constructive.

Cheers,
MRb

[jason_m]

matt,
thanks for the response. unfortunately what you are suggesting returns "Array"
did try what you mentioned, and appreciate the idea, but tried that already.

thanks!

[jason_m]

thanks matt.
you indirectly cracked my case.

see below

<?php
...

$mail=@imap_open($host,$user,$pass) or die("Can't connect: " . imap_last_error());
if($mail){
$mails=imap_num_msg($mail);
if($mails==0) {
      echo "<i>no mails.</i>";
    } else {    
      echo "$mails mails<p>";

      for($i=1;$i<=$mails;$i++) {
        $chead=imap_headerinfo($mail,$i);
        $mid=ltrim($chead->Msgno);
        
        echo "<a href='page.php?see=$mid'>";
         
        echo $chead->subject;
        echo "</a>";
        echo "<br>";
        $a=$chead->sender;
        print_r($a);
        
        echo "<br>\n";
        echo $a[0]->mailbox;
        echo "@";
echo $a[0]->host;
      }
}
}
?>

[Matthew1980]

Hi there jason_m,

Well print_r($chead->sender) and see what key it gives for the info your after then just do this:-

echo $chead->sender['key_you_need'];

Seems the logical way to go if you are getting an array returned :p

Other than that I'm not sure :/

[EDIT:] You can just access those keys from the object, no need to reassign :) Glad your there though..

Cheers,
MRb

[jason_m]

haha, yeah realized it was a bit silly. definitely needs some clean up but at least got me to where i wanted. thanks again.