<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >imap_createmailbox</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="IMAP, POP3 and NNTP functions" HREF="ref.imap.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="imap_close" HREF="function.imap-close.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="imap_delete" HREF="function.imap-delete.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.imap-close.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.imap-delete.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.imap-createmailbox" ></A >imap_createmailbox</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN37714" ></A ><P > (PHP 3, PHP 4 )</P >imap_createmailbox -- Create a new mailbox</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN37717" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >bool <B CLASS="methodname" >imap_createmailbox</B > ( resource imap_stream, string mbox)<BR ></BR ><P > <B CLASS="function" >imap_createmailbox()</B > creates a new mailbox specified by <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >mbox</I ></TT >. Names containing international characters should be encoded by <A HREF="function.imap-utf7-encode.html" ><B CLASS="function" >imap_utf7_encode()</B ></A > </P ><P > Returns <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >TRUE</B ></TT > on success and <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >FALSE</B ></TT > on error. </P ><P > See also <A HREF="function.imap-renamemailbox.html" ><B CLASS="function" >imap_renamemailbox()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.imap-deletemailbox.html" ><B CLASS="function" >imap_deletemailbox()</B ></A > and <A HREF="function.imap-open.html" ><B CLASS="function" >imap_open()</B ></A > for the format of <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >mbox</I ></TT > names. </P ><P > <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN37741" ></A ><P ><B >Example 1. <B CLASS="function" >imap_createmailbox()</B > example</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="programlisting" >$mbox = imap_open("{your.imap.host}","username","password",OP_HALFOPEN) or die("can't connect: ".imap_last_error()); $name1 = "phpnewbox"; $name2 = imap_utf7_encode("phpnewb&ouml;x"); $newname = $name1; echo "Newname will be '$name1'<br>\n"; # we will now create a new mailbox "phptestbox" in your inbox folder, # check its status after creation and finaly remove it to restore # your inbox to its initial state if(@imap_createmailbox($mbox,imap_utf7_encode("{your.imap.host}INBOX.$newname"))) { $status = @imap_status($mbox,"{your.imap.host}INBOX.$newname",SA_ALL); if($status) { print("your new mailbox '$name1' has the following status:<br>\n"); print("Messages: ". $status->messages )."<br>\n"; print("Recent: ". $status->recent )."<br>\n"; print("Unseen: ". $status->unseen )."<br>\n"; print("UIDnext: ". $status->uidnext )."<br>\n"; print("UIDvalidity:". $status->uidvalidity)."<br>\n"; if(imap_renamemailbox($mbox,"{your.imap.host}INBOX.$newname","{your.imap.host}INBOX.$name2")) { echo "renamed new mailbox from '$name1' to '$name2'<br>\n"; $newname=$name2; } else { print "imap_renamemailbox on new mailbox failed: ".imap_last_error()."<br>\n"; } } else { print "imap_status on new mailbox failed: ".imap_last_error()."<br>\n"; } if(@imap_deletemailbox($mbox,"{your.imap.host}INBOX.$newname")) { print "new mailbox removed to restore initial state<br>\n"; } else { print "imap_deletemailbox on new mailbox failed: ".implode("<br>\n",imap_errors())."<br>\n"; } } else { print "could not create new mailbox: ".implode("<br>\n",imap_errors())."<br>\n"; } imap_close($mbox);</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.imap-close.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.imap-delete.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >imap_close</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.imap.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >imap_delete</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >