Downloading attachments to directory with IMAP in PHP, randomly works

Question

I found PHP code online to download attachments to a directory using IMAP from here. http://www.nerdydork.com/download-pop3imap-email-attachments-with-php.html

I modified it slightly changing

        $structure = imap_fetchstructure($mbox, $jk);         $parts = ($structure->parts); 

to

        $structure = imap_fetchstructure($mbox, $jk);         $parts = ($structure); 

to get it to run properly, as otherwise I got an error about how stdClass doesn't define a property called $parts. Doing that, I was able to download all the attachments. I tested it again recently though, and it didn't work. Well, it didn't work 6 times, worked the 7th, and then hasn't worked since. I'm thinking it has something to do with me screwing up the parts handling, since count($parts) keeps returning 1 for each message, so it's not finding any attachments I think.

Since it downloaded the attachments at one point with no issues, I feel confident that the area things are getting screwed up is right here. Before this block of code is a for loop that goes through each message in the box, and after it is loop that just goes through $parts for each imap structure. Thanks for any help you can provide. I looked at the imap_fetchstructure page on php.net and can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.

Edit: I just double-checked the folder after typing up my question and it all popped up. I feel like I'm going nuts. I hadn't run the code since a few minutes before I started typing this, and it doesn't make sense to me that it would take this long to trigger. I have some 800 messages in the mailbox, but I figured since it printed my statement at the very end of the PHP that all of the file creation work was done.

Answer 1

This is perfect working answer, try this.

This Sample run properly and download all the attachments with no issues.

<?php  set_time_limit(3000);   /* connect to gmail with your credentials */ $hostname = '{imap.gmail.com:993/imap/ssl}INBOX'; $username = 'YOUR_USERNAME';  $password = 'YOUR_PASSWORD';  /* try to connect */ $inbox = imap_open($hostname,$username,$password) or die('Cannot connect to Gmail: ' . imap_last_error());  $emails = imap_search($inbox, 'FROM "[email protected]"');  /* if any emails found, iterate through each email */ if($emails) {      $count = 1;      /* put the newest emails on top */     rsort($emails);      /* for every email... */     foreach($emails as $email_number)      {          /* get information specific to this email */         $overview = imap_fetch_overview($inbox,$email_number,0);          $message = imap_fetchbody($inbox,$email_number,2);          /* get mail structure */         $structure = imap_fetchstructure($inbox, $email_number);          $attachments = array();          /* if any attachments found... */         if(isset($structure->parts) && count($structure->parts))          {             for($i = 0; $i < count($structure->parts); $i++)              {                 $attachments[$i] = array(                     'is_attachment' => false,                     'filename' => '',                     'name' => '',                     'attachment' => ''                 );                  if($structure->parts[$i]->ifdparameters)                  {                     foreach($structure->parts[$i]->dparameters as $object)                      {                         if(strtolower($object->attribute) == 'filename')                          {                             $attachments[$i]['is_attachment'] = true;                             $attachments[$i]['filename'] = $object->value;                         }                     }                 }                  if($structure->parts[$i]->ifparameters)                  {                     foreach($structure->parts[$i]->parameters as $object)                      {                         if(strtolower($object->attribute) == 'name')                          {                             $attachments[$i]['is_attachment'] = true;                             $attachments[$i]['name'] = $object->value;                         }                     }                 }                  if($attachments[$i]['is_attachment'])                  {                     $attachments[$i]['attachment'] = imap_fetchbody($inbox, $email_number, $i+1);                      /* 3 = BASE64 encoding */                     if($structure->parts[$i]->encoding == 3)                      {                          $attachments[$i]['attachment'] = base64_decode($attachments[$i]['attachment']);                     }                     /* 4 = QUOTED-PRINTABLE encoding */                     elseif($structure->parts[$i]->encoding == 4)                      {                          $attachments[$i]['attachment'] = quoted_printable_decode($attachments[$i]['attachment']);                     }                 }             }         }          /* iterate through each attachment and save it */         foreach($attachments as $attachment)         {             if($attachment['is_attachment'] == 1)             {                 $filename = $attachment['name'];                 if(empty($filename)) $filename = $attachment['filename'];                  if(empty($filename)) $filename = time() . ".dat";                 $folder = "attachment";                 if(!is_dir($folder))                 {                      mkdir($folder);                 }                 $fp = fopen("./". $folder ."/". $email_number . "-" . $filename, "w+");                 fwrite($fp, $attachment['attachment']);                 fclose($fp);             }         }     } }   /* close the connection */ imap_close($inbox);  echo "all attachment Downloaded";  ?> 

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