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) {
    die("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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Rainer Perske ¶

19 years ago

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