iconv_mime_decode

(PHP 5, PHP 7)

iconv_mime_decode — Decodes a MIME header field

Description

string iconv_mime_decode ( string $encoded_header [, int $mode = 0 [, string $charset = ini_get("iconv.internal_encoding") ]] )

Decodes a MIME header field.

Parameters

encoded_header

The encoded header, as a string.

mode

mode determines the behaviour in the event iconv_mime_decode() encounters a malformed MIME header field. You can specify any combination of the following bitmasks.

Bitmasks acceptable to **iconv_mime_decode()**
Value	Constant	Description
1	ICONV_MIME_DECODE_STRICT	If set, the given header is decoded in full conformance with the standards defined in » RFC2047. This option is disabled by default because there are a lot of broken mail user agents that don't follow the specification and don't produce correct MIME headers.
2	ICONV_MIME_DECODE_CONTINUE_ON_ERROR	If set, iconv_mime_decode_headers() attempts to ignore any grammatical errors and continue to process a given header.

charset

The optional charset parameter specifies the character set to represent the result by. If omitted, iconv.internal_encoding will be used.

Return Values

Returns a decoded MIME field on success, or FALSE if an error occurs during the decoding.

Examples

Example #1 iconv_mime_decode() example


<?php
// This yields "Subject: Prüfung Prüfung"
echo iconv_mime_decode("Subject: =?UTF-8?B?UHLDvGZ1bmcgUHLDvGZ1bmc=?=",
                       0, "ISO-8859-1");
?>

User Contributed Notes

Dirk Becker

2 years ago


While creating a new webmailer, I had to coop with a lot of mails and only half of them were correct encoded!
Often the text is tagged as ISO but in real its UTF :/

After trying a lot of solutions and combination a found a way which seems to work for all our mails. Maybe its usefull to someone else too.

<?php

    function mime_encode($data)
    {
        $resp = imap_utf8(trim($data));

        if(preg_match("/=\?/", $resp))
            $resp = iconv_mime_decode($data, ICONV_MIME_DECODE_CONTINUE_ON_ERROR, "ISO-8859-15");

        if(json_encode($resp) == 'null')
            $resp = utf8_encode($resp);

        return $resp;
    }

?>

koronci at aol dot com

3 years ago


A simple and working solution for latin encoding supports Slovak, Czech, Russian ect. 

<?php iconv("utf-8", "windows-1250", $SomeWeirdText); ?>



specially for those who strugle with imap_mime_header_decode

dido dot sevilla at gmail dot com

11 years ago


In PHP versions that have imap_mime_decode built in, it's possible to emulate the operation of this function:

<?php
function iconv_mime_decode($str, $mode=0, $charset="UTF-8")
{
    $data = imap_mime_header_decode($str);
    if (count($data) > 0) {
      // because iconv doesn't like the 'default' for charset
      $charset = ($data[0]->charset == 'default') ? 'ASCII' : $data[0]->charset;
      return(iconv($charset, $charset, $data[0]->text));
    }
    return("");
 }
?>

I've only tried to use this code snippet to decode ISO-2022-JP messages to UTF-8, but I see no reason why it shouldn't work in other cases.