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imap_getmailboxes

(PHP3 >= 3.0.12, PHP4 >= 4.0b4)

imap_getmailboxes --  Read the list of mailboxes, returning detailed information on each one

Description

array imap_getmailboxes (int imap_stream, string ref, string pattern)

Returns an array of objects containing mailbox information. Each object has the attributes name, specifying the full name of the mailbox; delimiter, which is the hierarchy delimiter for the part of the hierarchy this mailbox is in; and attributes. Attributes is a bitmask that can be tested against:

Mailbox names containing international Characters outside the printable ASCII range will be encoded and may be decoded by imap_utf7_decode().

ref should normally be just the server specification as described in imap_open(), and pattern specifies where in the mailbox hierarchy to start searching. If you want all mailboxes, pass '*' for pattern.

There are two special characters you can pass as part of the pattern: '*' and '%'. '*' means to return all mailboxes. If you pass pattern as '*', you will get a list of the entire mailbox hierarchy. '%' means to return the current level only. '%' as the pattern parameter will return only the top level mailboxes; '~/mail/%' on UW_IMAPD will return every mailbox in the ~/mail directory, but none in subfolders of that directory.

Example 1. imap_getmailboxes() example


$mbox = imap_open("{your.imap.host}","username","password",OP_HALFOPEN)
      || die("can't connect: ".imap_last_error());
 
$list = imap_getmailboxes($mbox,"{your.imap.host}","*");
if(is_array($list)) {
  reset($list);
  while (list($key, $val) = each($list))
  {
    print "($key) ";
    print imap_utf7_decode($val->name).",";
    print "'".$val->delimiter."',";
    print $val->attributes."<br>\n";
  }
} else
  print "imap_getmailboxes failed: ".imap_last_error()."\n";
 
imap_close($mbox);

See also imap_getsubscribed().

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