I am connecting through IMAP to get the XLSX attachments from a mailbox so I can convert these spreadsheets to PHP array data with PHPExcel, but when I load the file and convert it to array, the array is empty.
This is the function that gets the attachments from the mails matching the criteria:
public function getEmailAttachments($criteria){
$emails = imap_search($this->inbox, $criteria);
$email_attachments = [];
if($emails) {
rsort($emails);
foreach ($emails as $email_number) {
$attachments = [];
//get Email structure
$structure = imap_fetchstructure($this->inbox, $email_number);
/* if any attachments found... */
if(isset($structure->parts) && count($structure->parts))
{
for($i = 0; $i < count($structure->parts); $i++)
{
$attachments[$i] = array(
'is_attachment' => false,
'filename' => '',
'name' => '',
'attachment' => ''
);
if($structure->parts[$i]->ifdparameters)
{
foreach($structure->parts[$i]->dparameters as $object)
{
if(strtolower($object->attribute) == 'filename')
{
$attachments[$i]['is_attachment'] = true;
$attachments[$i]['filename'] = $object->value;
}
}
}
if($structure->parts[$i]->ifparameters)
{
foreach($structure->parts[$i]->parameters as $object)
{
if(strtolower($object->attribute) == 'name')
{
$attachments[$i]['is_attachment'] = true;
$attachments[$i]['name'] = $object->value;
}
}
}
if($attachments[$i]['is_attachment'])
{
$attachments[$i]['attachment'] = imap_fetchbody($this->inbox, $email_number, $i+1);
/* 3 = BASE64 encoding */
if($structure->parts[$i]->encoding == 3)
{
$attachments[$i]['attachment'] = base64_decode($attachments[$i]['attachment']);
}
/* 4 = QUOTED-PRINTABLE encoding */
elseif($structure->parts[$i]->encoding == 4)
{
$attachments[$i]['attachment'] = quoted_printable_decode($attachments[$i]['attachment']);
}
}
}
}
$email_attachments = array_merge($email_attachments, array_filter($attachments, function($attachment){return $attachment['is_attachment'] == 1;}));
}
}
imap_close($this->inbox);
return $email_attachments;
}
Then this is the function that writes the XLSX files to the server and loads them with PHPExcel to convert them to Array data:
public function getEmailReports(){
$this->loadPhpExcel();
$attachments = parent::getEmailAttachments('FROM "example@example.com"');
//iterate through each attachment and save it
foreach($attachments as $attachment){
$filename = $attachment['name'];
if(empty($filename)) $filename = $attachment['filename'];
$folder = "data/excel";
$file_path = "./". $folder ."/". time() . "-" . $filename;
$fp = fopen($file_path, "w");
fwrite($fp, $attachment['attachment']);
$excelReader = PHPExcel_IOFactory::createReaderForFile($file_path);
$excelObj = $excelReader->load($file_path);
foreach ($excelObj->getWorksheetIterator() as $worksheet) {
$worksheets[$worksheet->getTitle()] = $worksheet->toArray();
}
fclose($fp);
print_r($worksheets); //ARRAY IS EMPTY HERE
//unlink($file_path);
}
}