Don't you hate it when, right after you post to the list, you figure out
your problem? :-)
I removed the quotes around $id after using:
$err = imap_errors();
print_r($err);
to determine what the problem was.
Anyway, Happy Thanksgiving all, happy troubleshooting and never forget to use
the debugging tools the nice people at PHP gave you for Christmas.
Beckman
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Peter Beckman wrote:
> I'm writing a command line script to go through a mailbox on the file
> system. PHP the binary is compiled with imap, I've confirmed by using
> imap_headers to get the array of the 10,051 messages and printed the array
> out.
>
> Here's my code:
>
> #!/usr/local/bin/php -q
> <?php
>
> $id = $_SERVER["argv"][1];
>
> ini_set("max_execution_time","9000");
>
> list($usec, $sec) = explode(" ",microtime());
> $start = ((float)$usec + (float)$sec);
>
> $mbox = imap_open("/home/beckman/public_html/spamtracker/a-copy-of-spam", "", "") or die("can't open");
>
> print "Finding '$id' (Executing imap_search($mbox,'$id'))\n";
> $matches = imap_search($mbox, '$id');
> print_r($matches);
>
> #while(list($key,$val)=each($matches)) {
> # echo "$key: $val\n";
> #}
>
> imap_close($mbox);
> ?>
>
> Here's what I get when searching for a variety of different possibilities (no results being returned in $matches):
>
> Finding 'ALL fat' (Executing imap_search(Resource id #1,'ALL fat'))
> Finding 'ALL "fat"' (Executing imap_search(Resource id #1,'ALL "fat"'))
> Finding 'BODY "fat"' (Executing imap_search(Resource id #1,'BODY "fat"'))
>
> Then I put SE_UID as the last option in imap_search:
> Finding 'BODY "fat"' (Executing imap_search(Resource id #1,'BODY "fat"',SE_UID))
> Finding 'TO "beckman@purplecow.com"' (Executing imap_search(Resource id #1,'TO "beckman@purplecow.com"',SE_UID))
>
> I get nothing in $matches ever. What is going on? Am I doing it wrong?
> I've read the documentation and the contributed notes and copied and pasted
> replacing the search strings and continue to fail. Argh.
>
> I know the word "fat" is in the body of more than 50 messages, as well as
> in the headers, as there are 10,051 pieces of spam I'm trying to parse.
>
> Peter
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