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imap_mime_header_decode

(PHP 3>= 3.0.17, PHP 4 >= 4.0.0)

imap_mime_header_decode -- Decode MIME header elements

Description

array imap_mime_header_decode ( string text)

imap_mime_header_decode() function decodes MIME message header extensions that are non ASCII text (see RFC2047) The decoded elements are returned in an array of objects, where each object has two properties, "charset" & "text". If the element hasn't been encoded, and in other words is in plain US-ASCII,the "charset" property of that element is set to "default".

Example 1. imap_mime_header_decode() example

$text="=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Keld_J=F8rn_Simonsen?= <keld@dkuug.dk>";

$elements=imap_mime_header_decode($text);
for($i=0;$i<count($elements);$i++) {
    echo "Charset: {$elements[$i]->charset}\n";
    echo "Text: {$elements[$i]->text}\n\n";
}

In the above example we would have two elements, whereas the first element had previously been encoded with ISO-8859-1, and the second element would be plain US-ASCII.

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