# imap_fetchbody

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)

imap_fetchbody — Fetch a particular section of the body of the message

### Description

imap_fetchbody ( resource `$imap_stream` , int `$msg_number` , string `$section` [, int `$options` = 0 ] ) : string

Fetch of a particular section of the body of the specified messages. Body parts are not decoded by this function.

### Parameters

`imap_stream`

  An IMAP stream returned by imap_open().

`msg_number`

  The message number

`section`

  The part number. It is a string of integers delimited by period which index into a body part list as per the IMAP4 specification

`options`

  A bitmask with one or more of the following:

  - `FT_UID` - The `msg_number` is a UID
  - `FT_PEEK` - Do not set the \Seen flag if not already set
  - `FT_INTERNAL` - The return string is in internal format, will not canonicalize to CRLF.

### Return Values

Returns a particular section of the body of the specified messages as a text string.

### See Also

- imap_savebody() - Save a specific body section to a file
- imap_fetchstructure() - Read the structure of a particular message