[thelist] Stripping HTML from Emails

Tue May 25 09:11:45 CDT 2004

admin at antonakis.co.uk wrote:

> Perhaps I didn't make myself clear in what I meant by stripping out the 
> HTML form emails. I didn't just mean the HTML itself, I meant everything 
> else associated with it as well.

You need software to handle MIME-messages.

This might help you:
http://pear.sourceforge.net/manual/core.mail.mimedecode.php

Edwin Martin

> 
> For example, here is an HTML email minus it's headers:
> Basically I just want the LX0008 & LX0010 part, and not all the 
> content-type, etc that's added by some email browsers.
> 
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; 
> boundary="-----------------------------1085435574"
> X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 630
> 
> 
> -------------------------------1085435574
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> 
> LX0008
> LX0010
> 
> -------------------------------1085435574
> Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> 
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
> <HTML><HEAD>
> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; charset=3DUS-ASCII">
> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2737.800" name=3DGENERATOR></HEAD>
> <BODY id=3Drole_body style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; 
> FONT-FAMILY:=20=
> Arial"=20
> bottomMargin=3D7 leftMargin=3D7 topMargin=3D7 rightMargin=3D7><FONT 
> id=3Drol=
> e_document=20
> face=3DArial color=3D#000000 size=3D2>
> <DIV>LX0008</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>
> 
> Regards
> Alexis
> -------------------------------1085435574--
> 
> Liam Delahunty wrote:
> 
>> on 24/05/2004 22:04 Alexis Antonakis wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have a script written in PHP which extracts details from emails.
>>> Everything works fine for plain text emails, but HTML ones are a 
>>> nightmare.
>>> Can anybody point me in the right direction as to how I can detail 
>>> with these emails.
>>
>>
>>
>> Clear HTML with something like http://php.net/strip_tags ?
>>
>>
> 