Can't open downloaded attachments from Gmail API

Question

I feel like I\'m missing something stupid...

I\'m using the PHP SDK for the new Gmail API to fetch an attachment from an email. I can get the attachment content, but un

Answer 1

There may be an issue with decoding the attachment data. Try using this string replace on the attachment data before writing it to a file.

  
    $data = $g->gmail->users_messages_attachments->get($email_account, $email_message_id, $p->getBody()->getAttachmentId());

    // Converting to standard RFC 4648 base64-encoding
    // see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64#Implementations_and_history
    $data = strtr($data, array('-' => '+', '_' => '/'));

    $fh = fopen(DOC_ROOT."/file.pdf", "w+");
    fwrite($fh, base64_decode($data->data));
    fclose($fh);