Summary — An introduction to the PHP MAPI Extension
The PHP-MAPI extension provides access to MS MAPI function from php. Although not all MAPI functions and interfaces are supported, most functions have a php counterpart in this extension. Using PHP-MAPI, users can create webbased e-mail and calendaring systems and interfaces with existing php projects, using the mapi functions like a normal mapi program.
The complete PHP-MAPI extension was based on the MAPI specification by Microsoft, which can be downloaded from MSDN at no charge. The functions defined in chapter 2, the php-mapi reference, are usually directly related to their MAPI counterpart and most information provided by the Microsoft MAPI specification is also applicable to the functions defined in the reference.
Also, general MAPI practices, hierarchies and properties apply to the PHP-MAPI extension. You are assumed to have basic knowledge of MAPI and its object structure before reading this reference manual.
Current unsupported features of MAPI are:
The IProfAdmin interface and related interfaces
Notifications, interfaces and related functions
Search folders: creation and use of
Unicode string properties (read/write, except for named properties which are always Unicode)
Folder and message operations: copyTo etc.
Additional features since 4.1 are:
Selected Addressbook functions (IAddrBook and others)
SetReadFlags function on a MAPI folder was added
GetNamesFromIDs function for named properties was added
IExchangeModifyTable interface support
Zarafa specific admin functions to create users, groups and adminster them
Zarafa specific permission functions to get and set permissions on items
Ability to get the last occurred HRESULT from the called mapi functions
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