imap_thread
(PHP 4 >= 4.0.7, PHP 5, PHP 7)
imap_thread — Returns a tree of threaded message
Description
imap_thread ( resource $imap_stream [, int $options = SE_FREE ] ) : array
Gets a tree of a threaded message.
Parameters
-
imap_stream -
An IMAP stream returned by imap_open().
-
options
Return Values
imap_thread() returns an associative array containing a tree of messages threaded by REFERENCES, or false on error.
Every message in the current mailbox will be represented by three entries in the resulting array:
$thread["XX.num"] - current message number
$thread["XX.next"]
$thread["XX.branch"]
Examples
Example #1 imap_thread() Example
<?php
// Here we're outputting the threads of a newsgroup, in HTML
$nntp = imap_open('{news.example.com:119/nntp}some.newsgroup', '', '');
$threads = imap_thread($nntp);
foreach ($threads as $key => $val) {
$tree = explode('.', $key);
if ($tree[1] == 'num') {
$header = imap_headerinfo($nntp, $val);
echo "<ul>\n\t<li>" . $header->fromaddress . "\n";
} elseif ($tree[1] == 'branch') {
echo "\t</li>\n</ul>\n";
}
}
imap_close($nntp);
?>
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