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# Zend_Mime_Part

# Introduction

This class represents a single part of a MIME message. It contains the actual content of the message part plus information about its encoding, content type and original filename. It provides a method for generating a string from the stored data. Zend_Mime_Part objects can be added to Zend_Mime_Message to assemble a complete multipart message.

# Instantiation

Zend_Mime_Part is instantiated with a string that represents the content of the new part. The type is assumed to be OCTET-STREAM, encoding is 8Bit. After instantiating a Zend_Mime_Part, meta information can be set by accessing its attributes directly:

1. public $type = Zend_Mime::TYPE_OCTETSTREAM;
2. public $encoding = Zend_Mime::ENCODING_8BIT;
3. public $id;
4. public $disposition;
5. public $filename;
6. public $description;
7. public $charset;
8. public $boundary;
9. public $location;
10. public $language;

# Methods for rendering the message part to a string

getContent() returns the encoded content of the MimePart as a string using the encoding specified in the attribute $encoding. Valid values are Zend_Mime::ENCODING_* Characterset conversions are not performed.

getHeaders() returns the Mime-Headers for the MimePart as generated from the information in the publicly accessible attributes. The attributes of the object need to be set correctly before this method is called.

- $charset has to be set to the actual charset of the content if it is a text type (Text or HTML).

- $id may be set to identify a content-id for inline images in a HTML mail.

- $filename contains the name the file will get when downloading it.

- $disposition defines if the file should be treated as an attachment or if it is used inside the (HTML-) mail (inline).

- $description is only used for informational purposes.

- $boundary defines string as boundary.

- $location can be used as resource URI that has relation to the content.

- $language defines languages in the content.

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