<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >imap_delete</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_createmailbox" HREF="function.imap-createmailbox.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="imap_deletemailbox" HREF="function.imap-deletemailbox.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-createmailbox.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-deletemailbox.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.imap-delete" ></A >imap_delete</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN37746" ></A ><P > (PHP 3, PHP 4 )</P >imap_delete -- Mark a messge for deletion from current mailbox </DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN37749" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >bool <B CLASS="methodname" >imap_delete</B > ( int imap_stream, int msg_number [, int options])<BR ></BR ><P > Returns <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >TRUE</B ></TT >. </P ><P > <B CLASS="function" >imap_delete()</B > marks messages listed in <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >msg_number</I ></TT > for deletion. The optional <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >flags</I ></TT > parameter only has a single option, <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >FT_UID</I ></TT >, which tells the function to treat the <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >msg_number</I ></TT > argument as a <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >UID</I ></TT >. Messages marked for deletion will stay in the mailbox until either <A HREF="function.imap-expunge.html" ><B CLASS="function" >imap_expunge()</B ></A > is called or <A HREF="function.imap-close.html" ><B CLASS="function" >imap_close()</B ></A > is called with the optional parameter CL_EXPUNGE. </P ><DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Note: </B > POP3 mailboxes do not have their message flags saved between connections, so <A HREF="function.imap-expunge.html" ><B CLASS="function" >imap_expunge()</B ></A > must be called during the same connection in order for messages marked for deletion to actually be purged. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ><P > <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN37778" ></A ><P ><B >Example 1. <B CLASS="function" >imap_delete()</B > Beispiel</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" >$mbox = imap_open ("{your.imap.host}INBOX", "username", "password") or die ("can't connect: " . imap_last_error()); $check = imap_mailboxmsginfo ($mbox); print "Messages before delete: " . $check->Nmsgs . "<br>\n" ; imap_delete ($mbox, 1); $check = imap_mailboxmsginfo ($mbox); print "Messages after delete: " . $check->Nmsgs . "<br>\n" ; imap_expunge ($mbox); $check = imap_mailboxmsginfo ($mbox); print "Messages after expunge: " . $check->Nmsgs . "<br>\n" ; imap_close ($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-createmailbox.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-deletemailbox.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >imap_createmailbox</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_deletemailbox</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >