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imap_thread

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.7, PHP 5, PHP 7)

imap_thread — Returns a tree of threaded message

Description

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

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);?>