PHP

Make a Copy of an Email

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.MakeCopy method, which copies the entire state of this email into another Email object — message content, recipients, headers, body representations, attachments, and related items. This example copies an email and reads a couple of fields from the copy.

Background: A deep copy gives you an independent duplicate: changes to one object do not affect the other. This is handy for template-and-tweak workflows — build a base message once, copy it per recipient, then vary only the recipient or a few fields — without risk of one send's edits bleeding into the next.

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<?php

use Chilkat2\Email;

// Demonstrates the MakeCopy method, which copies the entire state of this email into
// another Email object -- message content, recipients, headers, bodies, attachments, and
// related items.

$email = new Email();
$email->Subject = 'Original';
$email->From = 'alice@example.com';
$email->AddTo('Bob', 'bob@example.com');
$email->Body = 'Original body.';

// Copy the entire email into a new Email object.
$copy = new Email();

try {
    $email->MakeCopy($copy);
} catch (\Chilkat2\Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage(), "\n";
    exit;
}

echo 'Copy subject: ', $copy->Subject, "\n";
echo 'Copy NumTo: ', $copy->NumTo, "\n";