imap_thread

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.7, PHP 5)

imap_thread — Returns a tree of threaded message

Description

array imap_thread ( resource $imap_stream [, int $options ] )

Gets a tree of a threaded message.

Parameters

imap_stream: An IMAP stream returned by imap_open().
options

Return Values

imap_thread() returns an associative array containing a tree of messages threaded by REFERENCES, or FALSE on error.

Every message in the current mailbox will be represented by three entries in the resulting array:

$thread["XX.num"] - current message number
$thread["XX.next"]
$thread["XX.branch"]

Examples

Example #1 imap_thread() Example


<?php



// Here we're outputting the threads of a newsgroup, in HTML



$nntp = imap_open('{news.example.com:119/nntp}some.newsgroup', '', '');

$threads = imap_thread($nntp);



foreach ($threads as $key => $val) {

  $tree = explode('.', $key);

  if ($tree[1] == 'num') {

    $header = imap_headerinfo($nntp, $val);

    echo "<ul>\n\t<li>" . $header->fromaddress . "\n";

  } elseif ($tree[1] == 'branch') {

    echo "\t</li>\n</ul>\n";

  }

}



imap_close($nntp);



?>