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.

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:

<?php            
public $type = ZMime::TYPE_OCTETSTREAM;
public $encoding = ZMime::ENCODING_8BIT;
public $id;
public $disposition;
public $filename;
public $description;
public $charset;
?>

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

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