note 71243 added to function.imap-getmailboxes

i am currently develop a simple IMAP client, when i call imap_getmailboxes() i receive a different values in attributes property of the mailbox object the problem is how can i manipulate these attributes to get a meaningful value, if you make a hard search to find a solution for this, you will not find any useful documents for this problem, let us take a closer look for this problem. when i call imap_getmailboxes() against different IMAP servers i got these attribute values [attributes] => 9 [attributes] => 1 [attributes] => 64 [attributes] => 32 [attributes] => 40 the documentation tell us that we check this attributes against four constants, these contents are LATT_NOINFERIORS LATT_NOSELECT LATT_MARKED LATT_UNMARKED the value of these constants are LATT_NOINFERIORS = 1 LATT_NOSELECT = 2 LATT_MARKED = 4 LATT_UNMARKED = 8 you can got this result by echo each constant, unfortunately the documentation not explain how we can check the attributes against the constants, after a long time of searching i find the answer in source code of c-client (you can get the source from ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/imap/) under \src\c-client you will find mail.h open it and you will find this /* terminal node in hierarchy */ #define LATT_NOINFERIORS (long) 0x1 /* name can not be selected */ #define LATT_NOSELECT (long) 0x2 /* changed since last accessed */ #define LATT_MARKED (long) 0x4 /* accessed since last changed */ #define LATT_UNMARKED (long) 0x8 /* name has referral to remote mailbox */ #define LATT_REFERRAL (long) 0x10 /* has selectable inferiors */ #define LATT_HASCHILDREN (long) 0x20 /* has no selectable inferiors */ #define LATT_HASNOCHILDREN (long) 0x40 as you notice here these are our four constants and three additional constants LATT_REFERRAL LATT_HASCHILDREN LATT_HASNOCHILDREN then what is the value of these 3 attributes LATT_REFERRAL 0x10 = 00010000 in binary, the bitmask value is 2^4 = 16 and so on, or simply echo this constant to get the value, then LATT_REFERRAL = 16 LATT_HASCHILDREN = 32 LATT_HASNOCHILDREN = 64 finally the full list of constants will be LATT_NOINFERIORS = 1 LATT_NOSELECT = 2 LATT_MARKED = 4 LATT_UNMARKED = 8 LATT_REFERRAL = 16 LATT_HASCHILDREN = 32 LATT_HASNOCHILDREN = 64 ok let's back to our attributes [attributes] => 9 [attributes] => 1 [attributes] => 64 [attributes] => 32 [attributes] => 40 [attributes] => 9 this mean it's LATT_UNMARKED and LATT_NOINFERIORS 1+8 =9 [attributes] => 1 this mean LATT_NOINFERIORS [attributes] => 64 this mean LATT_HASNOCHILDREN [attributes] => 32 this mean LATT_HASCHILDREN [attributes] => 40 this mean LATT_HASCHILDREN and LATT_UNMARKED 32+8=40 this just like linux file permission 7 mean read, write, and execute 4+2+1 read=4 write=2 execute=1 that is what i found, i hope this can help Mohamed Abbas Nileweb Egypt ---- Server IP: 66.163.161.117 Probable Submitter: 62.139.132.215 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.imap-getmailboxes.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/71243 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/71243/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/71243/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/71243/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/71243/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/71243/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/71243/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/71243 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/71243 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php