How do I use convertToUtf8()

[abdullahseba]

Hi how do I use convertToUtf8() ? Docs just say "Apply encoding defined in header". And when I try using it it says at least one argument is expected. I want $imap->getMessages() to be returned in UTF-8 otherwise I get all sorts of problems.

[mattparksjr]

This is the function convertToUtf8:

    public function convertToUtf8($str) {
        if (mb_detect_encoding($str, "UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, GBK")!="UTF-8") {
            $str = utf8_encode($str);
        }
        $str = iconv('UTF-8', 'UTF-8//IGNORE', $str);
        return $str;
    }

All this code does is convert the provided string into utf8.

[abdullahseba]

Dayum My error log is full of these:

** (http://watt.u (errflg=3) in Unknown on line 0
[30-May-2017 11:26:14 Europe/London] PHP Notice:  Unknown: Invalid quoted-printable sequence: =TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256_P256)       5 sec

Origin (errflg=3) in Unknown on line 0
[30-May-2017 11:26:24 Europe/London] 5
[30-May-2017 11:26:49 Europe/London] PHP Notice:  Unknown: Invalid quoted-printable sequence: =sendgrid&utm_campaign=free-post_DHN&utm_medium=email

[mattparksjr]

Is this with or without convertToUtf8?

[abdullahseba]

Without.

its whats been returned by getMessages() .

And I cant convert it to JSON or XML for javascript on my client.

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Is this with or without convertToUtf8?

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[mattparksjr]

Try it with, everything that is printed.

[abdullahseba]

but its an array, You said string?

[mattparksjr]

How do you print your array?

[abdullahseba]

print_r() as the ajax response.

[abdullahseba]

But I need it as a JSON otherwise I'm stuck

[mattparksjr]

So if im correct your making an ajax front end which connects to the backend?

[abdullahseba]

yes

[abdullahseba]

basically a waaay better alternative to squirrelmail and roundcube baseed on your library

[abdullahseba]

[abdullahseba]

its part of a bigger ERP project but I think I will have it separate too.

[mattparksjr]

Let's say this is your workflow As you can see, your front end, ajax, connects to your code which connects to ours. Let's say a user clicks an open email link. This makes ajax send the request to your code which requests ours. Let says the user clicked an email with the id of 1. Ajax goes to your code and says hey, I need the sender, the receiver, the subject and the message of the email with id one. Your code request to ours. Your code then says alright, this is the sender, receiver, subject, and message, but first let me convert them to utf8 so you can echo this. Your code THEN builds the response from ours into a proper json array(https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_json_php.asp). Then your code sends it to your front end. You can then process it from there

** Excuse terrible ms paint skills :)

[abdullahseba]

Thats exactly what I'm doing so your library in a service provider and than my classes is in the controller. Its using the Slim framework.

public function getMessage($request, $response, $args)
  {
    $imap = $this->ci->imap;
    //Get request data from POST.
    $params = $request->getParsedBody();
    //Select mailbox
    $imap->selectFolder($this->getMailboxName($mailbox = $params['currentMailbox']));

    $emails = $imap->getMessages($number = $params['number'], $start = $params['start'], $order = 'DESC', IncomingMessage::NOT_DECODE);

    $emailsBody = array();

    foreach ($emails as $email) {
      $emailsBody[] =   $email->message->plain.PHP_EOL;
    }
    json_encode($emailsBody);

    print_r(array_reverse($emailsBody));
  }

[abdullahseba]

Usually I would just return the JSON object, but that causes the UTF-8 error

[mattparksjr]

So, try and hand make that arary. So if you get the subject of the email, utf8 it, add it to and array and do the same for all the other info, then return that array.

[abdullahseba]

whooo! Works! Thanks :) I did mess around with mb_x_encoding previously but I messed up.

  foreach ($emails as $email) {
      $body =  $imap->convertToUtf8($email->message->plain.PHP_EOL);
      $emailsBody[] =   $body;
    }
    return  json_encode($emailsBody);