note 104946 added to function.imap-getmailboxes

For the purposes of passing along the attributes as a json array, I wanted to pass the attributes as an indexed array to save on bandwidth and session storage. The human readable translation is then performed in javascript by relating each key to the proper attribute label. I also wanted a cleaner way of converting the attributes without calling another function or using a complex iteration. This puts each binary attribute into it's own array element for easy testing. <?php $mailboxes = imap_getmailboxes($mailbox, $username, $password); foreach($mailboxes as $key=>$mailbox){ ... $attrs = preg_split('//',str_pad(decbin($mailbox->attributes),7,"0",STR_PAD_LEFT),8); // convert decimal to an array of attributes array_shift($attrs); // Remove the extra element at the front of the array in position 0 ... } ?> With temporary variables, the conversion would look like this. <?php $attr_binary = decbin($mailbox->attributes); // convert decimal to binary $attr_binary = str_pad($attr_binary,7,"0",STR_PAD_LEFT); // pad with 0's on the left $attrs = $preg_split('//',$attr_binary,8); // split into an array after each character array_shift($attrs); // Remove the extra element at the front of the array in position 0 ?> By defining the attributes as a map to the array index, you can test as follows. <?php define("ATTR_NOINFERIORS",6); define("ATTR_NOSELECT "5); define("ATTR_MARKED ",4); define("ATTR_UNMARKED ",3); define("ATTR_REFERRAL ",2); define("ATTR_HASCHILDREN ",1); define("ATTR_HASNOCHILDREN ",0); if ($attrs[ATTR_HASCHILDREN]){ // do something } ?> ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 76.228.125.148 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.imap-getmailboxes.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/104946 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/104946/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/104946/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/104946/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/104946/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/104946/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/104946/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/104946 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/104946 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php