<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Decodes a modified UTF-7 encoded string</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="function.imap-unsubscribe.html">imap_unsubscribe</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="function.imap-utf7-encode.html">imap_utf7_encode</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="ref.imap.html">IMAP Functions</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="function.imap-utf7-decode" class="refentry"> <div class="refnamediv"> <h1 class="refname">imap_utf7_decode</h1> <p class="verinfo">(PHP 4, PHP 5)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">imap_utf7_decode</span> — <span class="dc-title">Decodes a modified UTF-7 encoded string</span></p> </div> <div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-function.imap-utf7-decode-description"> <h3 class="title">Description</h3> <div class="methodsynopsis dc-description"> <span class="type">string</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>imap_utf7_decode</strong></span> ( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$text</code></span> )</div> <p class="para rdfs-comment"> Decodes modified UTF-7 <em><code class="parameter">text</code></em> into ISO-8859-1 string. </p> <p class="para"> This function is needed to decode mailbox names that contain certain characters which are not in range of printable ASCII characters. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-function.imap-utf7-decode-parameters"> <h3 class="title">Parameters</h3> <p class="para"> <dl> <dt> <span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">text</code></em></span> <dd> <p class="para"> A modified UTF-7 encoding string, as defined in <a href="http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2060" class="link external">» RFC 2060</a>, section 5.1.3 (original UTF-7 was defined in <a href="http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1642" class="link external">» RFC1642</a>). </p> </dd> </dt> </dl> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-function.imap-utf7-decode-returnvalues"> <h3 class="title">Return Values</h3> <p class="para"> Returns a string that is encoded in ISO-8859-1 and consists of the same sequence of characters in <em><code class="parameter">text</code></em>, or <strong><code>FALSE</code></strong> if <em><code class="parameter">text</code></em> contains invalid modified UTF-7 sequence or <em><code class="parameter">text</code></em> contains a character that is not part of ISO-8859-1 character set. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-function.imap-utf7-decode-seealso"> <h3 class="title">See Also</h3> <p class="para"> <ul class="simplelist"> <li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.imap-utf7-encode.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">imap_utf7_encode()</a> - Converts ISO-8859-1 string to modified UTF-7 text</span></li> </ul> </p> </div> </div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="function.imap-unsubscribe.html">imap_unsubscribe</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="function.imap-utf7-encode.html">imap_utf7_encode</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="ref.imap.html">IMAP Functions</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div></body></html>