PHP ActiveX

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

$success = 0;

//  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 COM("Chilkat.Email");
$email->Subject = 'Save one attachment';

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

//  Save the attachment at index 0 into the specified directory.
$success = $email->SaveAttachedFile(0,'qa_output/attachments');
if ($success == 0) {
    print $email->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

print '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.

?>