PHP

Save a Single Email Attachment to Disk

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.SaveAttachedFile method, which saves the attachment at a given zero-based index to a directory. If the directory or any of its components do not exist, Chilkat creates them. This example adds an attachment and saves it.

Background: Where SaveAllAttachments writes every attachment at once, SaveAttachedFile saves just one by index — useful when you have inspected the attachments (by type, name, or size) and want to extract only a specific file. The attachment keeps its own filename; the same filename-safety considerations apply as when saving all of them.

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<?php

use Chilkat2\Email;

// Demonstrates the SaveAttachedFile method, which saves the attachment at a given
// zero-based index to a directory.  If the directory (or any of its components) does not
// exist, Chilkat creates it.

$email = new Email();
$email->Subject = 'Save one attachment';

$email->AddStringAttachment('report.txt', 'Attachment content.');

// Save the attachment at index 0 into the specified directory.
try {
    $email->SaveAttachedFile(0, 'qa_output/attachments');
} catch (\Chilkat2\Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage(), "\n";
    exit;
}

echo "Saved attachment 0.\n";

// Note: The path "qa_output/..." is a relative local filesystem path,
// relative to the current working directory of the running application.