Extract Name from Email Address
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This class can extract person name from e-mail address header.
It can parse given e-mail header line that should contain a person name and attempts to extract the person name from it.
The class uses certain heuristics to evaluate common ways people put their names in e-mail addresses to split the person names in its multiple parts.
A dictionary of common people names may be used to assure that the extracted names are part of the actual person name.
It can parse given e-mail header line that should contain a person name and attempts to extract the person name from it.
The class uses certain heuristics to evaluate common ways people put their names in e-mail addresses to split the person names in its multiple parts.
A dictionary of common people names may be used to assure that the extracted names are part of the actual person name.
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 September 2012 Number 5 |
Some applications receive e-mail messages from users that do not specify their real name. This class tries to guess the real name of a person that uses given e-mail address by parsing the address and splitting it in possible names that make part of the person real name. Manuel Lemos |
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| class.name-extractor.php |
Class | The main class |
 dictionary-names.php |
Aux. | Dictionary of common names |
| example-1.php |
Example | Process single address |
| example-2.php |
Example | Process multiple addresses |
| README |
Doc. | Readme |
| CHANGELOG |
Doc. | Change log |
| LICENSE |
Doc. | License |
| Download all files: extract-name-email.tar.gz extract-name-email.zip |
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