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How to remove Junk characters coming in gmail attachments in php?

I have marked the junk characters in the image and I want the code to remove it and start reading the data after it.

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Solution

  • That ugly looking text is not junk but something that makes a *.doc file a DOC file that it is (i.e. formatting). You can't really just echo that file using PHP.

    You can display it using a some PHP doc viewer library though or if you can find some API online to convert DOC to TXT.

    You can also make the user download it. Use file_put_content() to store that attachment into a doc file like below :

    if(file_put_content("attachment.doc", $email['attachment'])){
    header("Location: attachment.doc");
}