PHP ActiveX

Clear an Email Object

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.Clear method, which removes the current message content — recipients, headers, body representations, attachments, related items, and embedded messages — leaving an empty email object. This example builds a message with a recipient and attachment, clears it, and prints the counts before and after.

Background: Reusing a single Email object across many operations is efficient, but leftover state from a previous message could leak into the next. Clear resets the object completely, giving you a clean slate — the safe way to start a fresh message without allocating a new object.

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<?php

//  Demonstrates the Clear method, which removes the current message content, including
//  recipients, headers, body representations, attachments, related items, and embedded
//  messages -- leaving an empty email object.

$email = new COM("Chilkat.Email");
$email->Subject = 'A message';
$email->Body = 'Some body text.';
$email->AddTo('Bob','bob@example.com');
$email->AddStringAttachment('notes.txt','Some notes.');

print 'NumTo before clear = ' . $email->NumTo . "\n";
print 'NumAttachments before clear = ' . $email->NumAttachments . "\n";

//  Remove all content, resetting the email object.
$email->Clear();

print 'NumTo after clear = ' . $email->NumTo . "\n";
print 'NumAttachments after clear = ' . $email->NumAttachments . "\n";

?>