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Get an Email's MIME into a BinData

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetMimeBd method, which serializes the complete RFC822/MIME message (headers, body representations, related items, and attachments) and appends the bytes to a BinData object. This example builds a message, serializes it to a BinData, and prints the byte count.

Background: A BinData holds raw bytes, which is the right container when you want the MIME as binary rather than text — for example to write it directly to a file or socket, hash it, or hand it to another API that expects a byte buffer. It is the binary counterpart to GetMime (string) and GetMimeSb (StringBuilder).

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<?php

include("chilkat.php");

$success = false;

//  Demonstrates the GetMimeBd method, which serializes the complete RFC822/MIME message
//  (headers, bodies, related items, and attachments) and appends the bytes to a BinData
//  object.

$email = new CkEmail();
$email->put_Subject('GetMimeBd example');
$email->put_From('alice@example.com');
$email->AddTo('Bob','bob@example.com');
$email->put_Body('Hello!');

//  Append the complete MIME to a BinData object.
$bdMime = new CkBinData();
$success = $email->GetMimeBd($bdMime);
if ($success == false) {
    print $email->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

print 'MIME size (bytes) = ' . $bdMime->get_NumBytes() . "\n";

?>