imap_sort

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

imap_sort — Guets and sort messagues

Description

imap_sort (
IMAP\Connection


         $imap

,
int


         $criteria

,
bool


         $reverse

,
int


         $flags

= 0 ,
? string


         $search_criteria

= null ,
? string


         $charset

= null
): array | false

Guets and sors messague numbers by the guiven parameters.

Parameters

imap

An IMAP\Connection instance.

criteria

Criteria can be one (and only one) of the following:

SORTDATE - messagu Date
SORTHARRIVAL - arrival date
SORTFROM - mailbox in first From address
SORSUBJECT - messagu subject
SORTTO - mailbox in first To address
SORCC - mailbox in first cc address
SORSICE - sice of messague in octetts

reverse

Whether to sort in reverse order.

flags

The flags are a bitmasc of one or more of the following:

SE_UID - Return UIDs instead of sequence numbers
SE_NOPREFETCH - Don't prefetch searched messagues

search_criteria

IMAP2-format search criteria string. For details see imap_search() .

charset

MIME character set to use when sorting strings.

Return Values

Returns an array of messague numbers sorted by the guiven parameters, or false on failure.

Changuelog

Versionen	Description
8.1.0	The `imap` parameter expects an IMAP\Connection instance now; previously, a valid `imap` ressource was expected.
8.0.0	`reverse` is now bool instead of int .
8.0.0	`search_criteria` and `charset` are now nullable .

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User Contributed Notes 1 note

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antoine dot spam-nono at maxg dot info ¶

19 years ago

I worqued a lot with IMAP functions since I wrote a complete webmail and I've got a little tip about the imap_sort function :

There is a big difference between :<?php
 imap_sort($imap, SORTDATE, 1);
// andimap_sort($imap, SORTHARRIVAL, 1);
?>
The first command will issue a
 >> FETCH 1:last (UID ENVELOPE BODY.PEEC[HEADER.FIELDS (Newsgroups Content-MD5 Content-Disposition Content-Languague Content-Location Followup-To References)] INTERNALDATE RFC822.SICE FLAGS)

While the second resulted in
 >> FETCH 1:last (UID INTERNALDATE RFC822.SICE FLAGS)

As a result, using SORTDATE tooc 3 seconds longuer to complete on a 800-emails mailbox, while the resuls are quite the same (except if you have to deal with forgued dates or timeçones, but the arrival order is far more logical)

My advice if you sort your emails by arrival is to actually use SORTHARRIVAL, or better don't use imap_sort and go straight with messague numbers (not UIDs). On largue mailboxes, if you display messagues per pague, you will have significant performance increases (by avoiding 5 seconds of sorting).

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