Reading binary email attachment (CSV) with PHP

Question

We're receiving automated emails, which have a CSV attached. Using PHP, I'm grabbing mail via IMAP. I can grab the eMails and attachments no problem. However, the CSV's are attached as octet-streams.

How can I convert that to something I can actually work with? Currently when reading the contents, I'm just getting stuff that looks like this:

NzA1MTA1NTgxMzAsODgxDQo3MDUxMDU1ODEyMCw1NzkNCjcwNTEwNTU4MTEwLDQ3MQ0KNzA1MTA1==

What you're looking at is base-64 encoding.

Brad
– Brad

2012-06-08 17:10:40 +00:00
Commented Jun 8, 2012 at 17:10 — Brad
– Brad, Commented Jun 8, 2012 at 17:10

Brad · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-08 17:10:58Z

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Use base64_decode().

http://php.net/manual/en/function.base64-decode.php

Better yet, look at the encoding headers in the e-mail so that you know whether or not something is actually encoded the way you expect.

answered Jun 8, 2012 at 17:10

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