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Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 19:20:38 +0200
To: Crispin Olson <crispin@rcn.com>, Uwe Schindler <thetaphi@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [PATCH] PHP_IMAP New Function "imap_partialbody"
   to fetch chunks of a MIME attachment
From: thetaphi@php.net (Uwe Schindler)

This would be also interesting:
For decoding base64 binarys you could use the string.base64 stream filter 
then (PHP5)! :)

Uwe

At 18:50 15.08.2004, Crispin Olson wrote:
>Uwe Schindler wrote:
>
>>How about the idea to make a function like "imap_getbodystream(...)" that 
>>returns a PHP stream that can be read with fread() etc. and then closed 
>>by fclose()?. This could be done by using Wez's PHP stream wrappers in 
>>PHP5 (even in PHP4.3).
>>
>>Uwe
>
>Uwe,
>Not a bad idea, and I had thought of it too. Surely I need to be looking 
>at the "Streams API for extension authors" though, rather than the wrapper 
>functions if I want to create and maintain my own stream?
>At this point I've kept it simple, because for the most part, php_imap is 
>a simple wrapper layer onto the UW c-client, and that is also true for 
>this function.
>
>Crispin
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