Cannot get the body of email with Gmail PHP API

Question

I'm having trouble with the Gmail PHP API.

I want to retrieve the body content of emails, but I can retrieve it only for emails which have attachments! My question is why?

Here's my code so far:

// Authentication things above...
$client = getClient();
$gmail = new Google_Service_Gmail($client);    
$list = $gmail->users_messages->listUsersMessages('me', ['maxResults' => 1000]);

while ($list->getMessages() != null) {   
    foreach ($list->getMessages() as $mlist) {               
        $message_id = $mlist->id;   
        $optParamsGet2['format'] = 'full';
        $single_message = $gmail->users_messages->get('me', $message_id, $optParamsGet2);

        $threadId = $single_message->getThreadId();
        $payload = $single_message->getPayload();
        $headers = $payload->getHeaders();
        $parts = $payload->getParts();
        //print_r($parts); PRINTS SOMETHING ONLY IF I HAVE ATTACHMENTS...
        $body = $parts[0]['body'];
        $rawData = $body->data;
        $sanitizedData = strtr($rawData,'-_', '+/');
        $decodedMessage = base64_decode($sanitizedData); //should display my body content
    }

    if ($list->getNextPageToken() != null) {
        $pageToken = $list->getNextPageToken();
        $list = $gmail->users_messages->listUsersMessages('me', ['pageToken' => $pageToken, 'maxResults' => 1000]);
    } else {
        break;
    }
}

The second option to retrieve content that I know is by using the snippet located in the Headers part, but it only retrieves the 50 first characters or so, which isn't very useful.

Answer 1

UPDATE: You might want to check my second answer below this one for a more complete code.

Finally, I worked today, so here's the complete code answer for finding the body - thanks to @Tholle:

// Authentication things above
/*
 * Decode the body.
 * @param : encoded body  - or null
 * @return : the body if found, else FALSE;
 */
function decodeBody($body) {
    $rawData = $body;
    $sanitizedData = strtr($rawData,'-_', '+/');
    $decodedMessage = base64_decode($sanitizedData);
    if(!$decodedMessage){
        $decodedMessage = FALSE;
    }
    return $decodedMessage;
}

$client = getClient();
$gmail = new Google_Service_Gmail($client);

$list = $gmail->users_messages->listUsersMessages('me', ['maxResults' => 1000]);

try{
    while ($list->getMessages() != null) {

        foreach ($list->getMessages() as $mlist) {

            $message_id = $mlist->id;
            $optParamsGet2['format'] = 'full';
            $single_message = $gmail->users_messages->get('me', $message_id, $optParamsGet2);
            $payload = $single_message->getPayload();

            // With no attachment, the payload might be directly in the body, encoded.
            $body = $payload->getBody();
            $FOUND_BODY = decodeBody($body['data']);

            // If we didn't find a body, let's look for the parts
            if(!$FOUND_BODY) {
                $parts = $payload->getParts();
                foreach ($parts  as $part) {
                    if($part['body']) {
                        $FOUND_BODY = decodeBody($part['body']->data);
                        break;
                    }
                    // Last try: if we didn't find the body in the first parts, 
                    // let's loop into the parts of the parts (as @Tholle suggested).
                    if($part['parts'] && !$FOUND_BODY) {
                        foreach ($part['parts'] as $p) {
                            // replace 'text/html' by 'text/plain' if you prefer
                            if($p['mimeType'] === 'text/html' && $p['body']) {
                                $FOUND_BODY = decodeBody($p['body']->data);
                                break;
                            }
                        }
                    }
                    if($FOUND_BODY) {
                        break;
                    }
                }
            }
            // Finally, print the message ID and the body
            print_r($message_id . " : " . $FOUND_BODY);
        }

        if ($list->getNextPageToken() != null) {
            $pageToken = $list->getNextPageToken();
            $list = $gmail->users_messages->listUsersMessages('me', ['pageToken' => $pageToken, 'maxResults' => 1000]);
        } else {
            break;
        }
    }
} catch (Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage();
}

As you can see, my problem was, sometimes the body cannot be found in the payload->parts but directly in the payload->body! (plus I add the loop for multiple parts).

Hope this helps somebody else.