PHP 7.0.6 Released

mailparse_determine_best_xfer_encoding

(PECL mailparse >= 0.9.0)

mailparse_determine_best_xfer_encodingGets the best way of encoding

Description

string mailparse_determine_best_xfer_encoding ( resource $fp )

Figures out the best way of encoding the content read from the given file pointer.

Parameters

fp

A valid file pointer, which must be seek-able.

Return Values

Returns one of the character encodings supported by the mbstring module.

Examples

Example #1 mailparse_determine_best_xfer_encoding() example

<?php

$fp 
fopen('somemail.eml''r');
echo 
'Best encoding: ' mailparse_determine_best_xfer_encoding($fp);

?>

The above example will output something similar to:

Best encoding: 7bit

User Contributed Notes

matej dot kovac at gmail dot com
4 years ago
As of mailparse-2.1.5, it can return 7bit, 8bit, base64 and qprint. False on mbstring failure.
mileskeaton at gmail dot com
7 years ago
As far as I can tell, this only returns one of two strings: 'Quoted-Printable' or '7bit'
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