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Count the Attachments in an Email

Demonstrates the read-only Chilkat Email.NumAttachments property, which is the number of ordinary attachments in the email. Attachment indexes are zero-based. Related resources inside a multipart/related enclosure are counted separately by NumRelatedItems, and embedded message/rfc822 emails by NumAttachedMessages. This example adds two attachments and prints the count.

Background: An "attachment" is a MIME part meant to be saved or opened as a separate file, as opposed to being displayed as the message body. Chilkat decides whether a part is an attachment by weighing its MIME structure, content type, and Content-Disposition together — so a part can count as an attachment even without an explicit Content-Disposition: attachment header. Note that if an email was downloaded from an IMAP server without its attachment data, this property reflects only what is actually present in the object.

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<?php

use Chilkat2\Email;

// Demonstrates the read-only Email.NumAttachments property, which is the number
// of ordinary attachments contained in the email.  Attachment indexes are zero-based.

$email = new Email();
$email->Subject = 'Email with attachments';
$email->Body = 'Two files are attached.';

// Add two string attachments.
$email->AddStringAttachment('readme.txt', 'This is the first attachment.');
$email->AddStringAttachment('notes.txt', 'This is the second attachment.');

echo 'NumAttachments = ', $email->NumAttachments, "\n";