README

What is msEmailParser?

A utility to parse incoming emails into an object representation. This uses some of the tests from https://github.com/plancake/official-library-php-email-parser and is heavily inspired by https://github.com/juji/EmailParserPHP

Installation

Use Composer (recommended)

The recommended way to install msEmailParser is through composer.

If you don't have Composer yet, download it following the instructions on http://getcomposer.org/ or just run the following command:

curl -s http://getcomposer.org/installer | php

Just create a composer.json file for your project:

{
    "require": {
        "michaelesmith/email-parser": "*"
    }
}

For more info on composer see https://github.com/composer/composer

Examples

###Basic

$parser = new \MS\Email\Parser\Parser();
$message = $parser->parse($email);

// address object
$message->getFrom();

// email address
$message->getFrom()->getAddress();

// name if given
$message->getFrom()->getName();

// date sent
$message->getDate()

// date sent as DateTime object (PHP 5.3+)
$message->getDateAsDateTime()

// string
$message->getSubject();

// decoded plain text part
$message->getTextBody();

// decoded html body part
$message->getHtmlBody();

// attachments
$attachments = $message->getAttachments();
// attachment object
$attachments[0]
// methods
$attachments[0]->getFilename();
$attachments[0]->getMimeType();
// decoded attachment content
$attachments[0]->getContent();

###Encodings supported

* base64
* quoted-printable
* 7bit
* 8bit

More usage can be found in the tests