Added getFrom() method

PlancakeEmailParser.php

@@ -141,6 +141,31 @@ public function getSubject()
         return $ret;
     }
 
+    /**
+     *
+     * @return string (in UTF-8 format)
+     * @throws Exception if a subject header is not found
+     */
+    public function getFrom()
+    {
+        if (!isset($this->rawFields['from']))
+        {
+            throw new Exception("Couldn't find the sender of the email");
+        }
+
+        $ret = '';
+
+        if ($this->isImapExtensionAvailable) {
+            foreach (imap_mime_header_decode($this->rawFields['from']) as $h) { // subject can span into several lines
+                $charset = ($h->charset == 'default') ? 'US-ASCII' : $h->charset;
+                $ret .=  iconv($charset, "UTF-8//TRANSLIT", $h->text);
+            }
+        } else {
+            $ret = utf8_encode(iconv_mime_decode($this->rawFields['from']));
+        }
+
+        return $ret;
+    }
     /**
      *
      * @return array

README.txt

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ $emailParser = new PlancakeEmailParser(file_get_contents($emailPath));
 $emailTo = $emailParser->getTo();
 $emailSubject = $emailParser->getSubject();
 $emailCc = $emailParser->getCc();
+$emailFrom = $emailParser->getFrom();
 // ... or you can use the 'general purpose' method getHeader()
 $emailDeliveredToHeader = $emailParser->getHeader('Delivered-To');