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sourcepot/php-ole-msg-parser
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Minimal PHP library for parsing Outlook .msg files incl. attachments stored in OLE compound documents.

v1.2.1(2w ago)135↓20%1MITPHPPHP ^8.0

Since Nov 24Pushed 2w agoCompare

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php-ole-msg-parser
==================

[](#php-ole-msg-parser)

Minimal PHP library for parsing Outlook .msg files stored in OLE compound documents. This packaged is derived from *koopa/php-ole-msg-parser*.

Features
--------

[](#features)

- Reads raw OLE compound streams without external dependencies
- Extracts headers, plain-text body, RTF body (as attachment) and attachments from .msg files
- Provides lightweight loader interfaces for custom property handling
- Test web page included: .../php-ole-msg-parser/src/www/index.php

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

```
composer require sourcepot/php-ole-msg-parser
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

```
require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

$parser = new \Opt\OLE\MsgParser('path/to/message.msg');
$message = $parser->parse();

$headers = $message->headers;

$transportLayerRawHeaders=$headers['TRANSPORT_MESSAGE_HEADERS'];

$body = $message->body;

foreach ($message->attachments as $attachment){
    file_put_contents($attachment['filename'], $attachment['data']);
}
```

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

- PHP 8.0+
- mbstring extenstion

License
-------

[](#license)

MIT

###  Health Score

43

—

FairBetter than 89% of packages

Maintenance96

Actively maintained with recent releases

Popularity12

Limited adoption so far

Community10

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity46

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 92.9% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~22 days

Recently: every ~1 days

Total

9

Last Release

20d ago

PHP version history (2 changes)v1.0.0PHP ^7.4

v1.0.1PHP ^8.0

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/115737488?v=4)[Carsten Wallenhauer](/maintainers/SourcePot)[@SourcePot](https://github.com/SourcePot)

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Top Contributors

[![SourcePot](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/115737488?v=4)](https://github.com/SourcePot "SourcePot (13 commits)")[![koopa](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/195897?v=4)](https://github.com/koopa "koopa (1 commits)")

---

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msgoutlook

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