<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >imap_fetch_overview</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_expunge" HREF="function.imap-expunge.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="imap_fetchbody" HREF="function.imap-fetchbody.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-expunge.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-fetchbody.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.imap-fetch-overview" ></A >imap_fetch_overview</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN37842" ></A ><P > (PHP 3>= 3.0.4, PHP 4 )</P >imap_fetch_overview -- Read an overview of the information in the headers of the given message </DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN37845" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >array <B CLASS="methodname" >imap_fetch_overview</B > ( resource imap_stream, string sequence [, int options])<BR ></BR ><P > This function fetches mail headers for the given <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >sequence</I ></TT > and returns an overview of their contents. <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >sequence</I ></TT > will contain a sequence of message indices or UIDs, if <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >flags</I ></TT > contains FT_UID. The returned value is an array of objects describing one message header each: <P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P > subject - the messages subject </P ></LI ><LI ><P > from - who sent it </P ></LI ><LI ><P > date - when was it sent </P ></LI ><LI ><P > message_id - Message-ID </P ></LI ><LI ><P > references - is a reference to this message id </P ></LI ><LI ><P > size - size in bytes </P ></LI ><LI ><P > uid - UID the message has in the mailbox </P ></LI ><LI ><P > msgno - message sequence number in the maibox </P ></LI ><LI ><P > recent - this message is flagged as recent </P ></LI ><LI ><P > flagged - this message is flagged </P ></LI ><LI ><P > answered - this message is flagged as answered </P ></LI ><LI ><P > deleted - this message is flagged for deletion </P ></LI ><LI ><P > seen - this message is flagged as already read </P ></LI ><LI ><P > draft - this message is flagged as being a draft </P ></LI ></UL > </P ><P > <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN37893" ></A ><P ><B >Example 1. <B CLASS="function" >imap_fetch_overview()</B > example</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" >$mbox = imap_open("{your.imap.host:143}","username","password") or die("can't connect: ".imap_last_error()); $overview = imap_fetch_overview($mbox,"2,4:6",0); if(is_array($overview)) { reset($overview); while( list($key,$val) = each($overview)) { print $val->msgno . " - " . $val->date . " - " . $val->subject . "\n"; } } imap_close($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-expunge.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-fetchbody.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >imap_expunge</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_fetchbody</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >