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Make a Copy of an Email

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.MakeCopy method, which copies the entire state of this email into another Email object — message content, recipients, headers, body representations, attachments, and related items. This example copies an email and reads a couple of fields from the copy.

Background: A deep copy gives you an independent duplicate: changes to one object do not affect the other. This is handy for template-and-tweak workflows — build a base message once, copy it per recipient, then vary only the recipient or a few fields — without risk of one send's edits bleeding into the next.

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<?php

include("chilkat.php");

$success = false;

//  Demonstrates the MakeCopy method, which copies the entire state of this email into
//  another Email object -- message content, recipients, headers, bodies, attachments, and
//  related items.

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

//  Copy the entire email into a new Email object.
$copy = new CkEmail();

$success = $email->MakeCopy($copy);
if ($success == false) {
    print $email->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

print 'Copy subject: ' . $copy->subject() . "\n";
print 'Copy NumTo: ' . $copy->get_NumTo() . "\n";

?>