(PHP ActiveX) Unpack HTML Email to Files

Unpacks an HTML email into an HTML file and related files (images and style sheets). The links within the HTML are updated to point to the files unpacked and saved to disk.

Chilkat ActiveX Downloads ActiveX for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Note: The php_com_dotnet.dll may need to be enabled inside of php.ini.

<?php

// For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use new COM('Chilkat_9_5_0.Chilkat.Email')
$email = new COM("Chilkat.Email");

$success = $email->LoadEml('qa_data/eml/happyHour.eml');
if ($success != 1) {
    print $email->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

// Is this an HTML email?
if ($email->HasHtmlBody() == 1) {

    // Unpack the HTML to files.  The image and css URLs
    // in the HTML are modified to point to the files extracted to disk.
    $unpackDir = 'qa_output/emails';
    $partsSubdir = 'images';
    $htmlFilename = 'happyHour.html';
    $success = $email->UnpackHtml($unpackDir,$htmlFilename,$partsSubdir);
    if ($success != 1) {
        print $email->LastErrorText . "\n";
        exit;
    }

    print 'Success.' . "\n";
}


?>