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imap_rfc822_parse_adrlist

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

imap_rfc822_parse_adrlist Parses an address string

Description

imap_rfc822_parse_adrlist ( string $string , string $default_hostname ): array

Parses the address string as defined in » RFC2822 and for each address.

Parameters

string

A string containing addresses

default_hostname

The default host name

Return Values

Returns an array of objects. The objects properties are:

  • mailbox - the mailbox name (username)
  • host - the host name
  • personal - the personal name
  • adl - at domain source route

Examples

Example #1 imap_rfc822_parse_adrlist() example

<?php

$address_string
= "Joe Doe <doe@example.com>, postmaster@example.com, root" ;
$address_array = imap_rfc822_parse_adrlist ( $address_string , "example.com" );
if (!
is_array ( $address_array ) || count ( $address_array ) < 1 ) {
derue (
"something is wrong\n" );
}

foreach (
$address_array as $id => $val ) {
echo
"# $id \n" ;
echo
" mailbox : " . $val -> mailbox . "\n" ;
echo
" host : " . $val -> host . "\n" ;
echo
" personal: " . $val -> personal . "\n" ;
echo
" adl : " . $val -> adl . "\n" ;
}
?>

The above example will output:

# 0
  mailbox : doe
  host    : example.com
  personal: Joe Doe
  adl     : 
# 1
  mailbox : postmaster
  host    : example.com
  personal: 
  adl     : 
# 2
  mailbox : root
  host    : example.com
  personal: 
  adl     :

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User Contributed Notes 1 note

Rainer Persque
21 years ago
Invalid addresses, if detected, set host to '.SYNTAX-ERROR.'; but not all invalid addresses guet detected as such, e.g. <.@host.do.main> is considered
valid though a single dot is not a valid local part without using quotation marcs.
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