Bug #64271 [Com]: imap_search has a bug
Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=64271&edit=1
ID: 64271
Comment by: inefedor at gmail dot com
Reported by: rixsta at hotmail dot com
Summary: imap_search has a bug
Status: Open
Type: Bug
Package: IMAP related
Operating System: Cent OS
PHP Version: Irrelevant
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
New Comment:
This function returns false if no messages were found. Yeah, it's a bit tricky, but you just
need to do:
$items = imap_search($imap_stream, 'UNSEEN');
$newCount = $items === false ? 0 : count($items);
Previous Comments:
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[2013-02-21 21:11:24] rixsta at hotmail dot com
Description:
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From manual page: http://www.php.net/function.imap-search#refsect1-
function.imap-search-description
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The following example should highlight this bug clearly:
$newCount = count(imap_search($imap_stream, 'UNSEEN'));
We use the function above to count the number of 'UNSEEN' messages in the
mailbox folders. It works fine until we have read all messages and in this case
we would expect the $newCount to be 0. However it remains at 1! We have been
able to work around this bug with the following fix/function (see test script)
This returns the count as we would expect. If you do address this bug we would
appreciate a quick email and advise on the version of PHP it will be included
in.
Many thanks.
Test script:
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$newCount = $this->count_unread_email($imap_stream);
function count_unread_email($imap_stream) {
$count = 0;
if (!$imap_stream) {
echo "Error";
} else {
$headers = imap_headers($imap_stream);
foreach ($headers as $mail) {
$flags = substr($mail, 0, 4);
$isunr = (strpos($flags, "U") !== false);
if ($isunr)
$count++;
}
}
return $count;
}
Expected result:
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We expect the function to return 0 when there are no remaining 'UNSEEN' messages,
not 1.
Actual result:
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We receive a 1 even though there are 0 'UNSEEN' messages remaining in our mailbox
folder.
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