Have you considered using the IMAP extension? That would solve pretty much all your problems with regards to "interpreting" the contents of a message. It's a bit slow, though. As for searching the hrefs and imgs, you can easily get away with a couple of regular expressions. Hope this helps. Marco -- ------------ php|architect - The magazine for PHP Professionals The first monthly worldwide magazine dedicated to PHP programmers Check us out on the web at http://www.phparch.com On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 15:57, Peter Beckman wrote: > Hey Folks: > > I admit, I haven't searched for this anywhere yet, but I thought I'd ask > for opinions first. > > I'm looking to parse an email. Some emails are HTML, some are not. > > What I want to do with an email is: > > 1. Split the headers from the body > 2. Remove MIME attachments that aren't txt or html from the body > 3. Grab all the HREF urls in the body as well as image SRCes (fully > qualified, so if there is a "<base href=" in the beginning the > library will note this and fully qualify HREFs and SRCs (as well as > anything else); basically I want a list (or the ability to build a > list) that looks like this: > > href http://www.purplecow.com/hhs/ > img http://purplecow.com/gfx/icons/new.gif > > Are there any good libraries of functions that would aid me in this effort? > The idea is to store the headers in the DB, store the body in another > table, and store hrefs and image URLs in another table. The URLs will be > used to see if there are redirects to somewhere else and make a "parent" > association. > > Any thoughts, pointers, urls or code would be appreciated! > > Peter > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Peter Beckman Systems Engineer, Fairfax Cable Access Corporation > beckman@purplecow.com http://www.purplecow.com/ > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
