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Get a Summary of the MIME Structure

Demonstrates the Chilkat Mime.GetStructure method, which returns a concise summary of the MIME tree. The only argument selects the format: xml for XML, or text (the default for any other value) for a plain-text outline.

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Background: A real message can nest multipart containers several levels deep — a multipart/mixed holding a multipart/alternative of text and HTML plus attachments — and GetStructure renders that hierarchy at a glance without the full content. It is the fast way to understand or debug an unfamiliar message's layout, in either a readable text outline or machine-parseable XML.

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<?php

use Chilkat2\Mime;

// Demonstrates the Mime.GetStructure method, which returns a concise summary of the MIME tree.
// The only argument selects the output format: "xml" for XML, or "text" (the default) for a
// plain-text outline.

$mime = new Mime();

try {
    $mime->LoadMimeFile('qa_data/multipart_message.eml');

    // Get a human-readable text outline of the MIME structure.
    $structure = $mime->GetStructure('text');
} catch (\Chilkat2\Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage(), "\n";
    exit;
}

echo $structure, "\n";