Working with PHP mime mail parser - email-parsing

Question

I'm using this library to parse my incoming emails:
http://code.google.com/p/php-mime-mail-parser/
I have Mailparse extension installed and everything is fine, but when I do:
echo $from = $Parser->getHeader('from');
It echos out the name of the email sender, for example: John Smith, but I need the email address of the email sender, for example john#smith.com.
This also happens for:
echo $to = $Parser->getHeader('to');
and I can't seem to find any solution to get these, any helps here?
Thanks in adnva

Answer 1

You need to apply htmlspecialchars() function on to/from:
// You need to apply htmlspecialchars() function on to/from:
$from = htmlspecialchars($Parser->getHeader('from'));
$to = htmlspecialchars($Parser->getHeader('to'));
// the above code will give you something like:
// John Smith <john#smith.com>
// so to get the email address we need to use explode() function:
function get_email_address($input){
$input = explode('<', $input);
$output = str_replace('>', '', $input);
$name = $output[0]; // THE NAME
$email = $output[1]; // THE EMAIL ADDRESS
return $email;
}
$from = htmlspecialchars($Parser->getHeader('from'));
echo $from = get_email_address($from); // NOW THIS IS THE EMAIL
$to = htmlspecialchars($Parser->getHeader('to'));
echo $from = get_email_address($to) // NOW THIS IS THE EMAIL