Can anyone connect to Gmail account using PHP?

[SBh]

I am trying to connect Gmail account using imap_open function of PHP.

I have used the imap_open function like this:

For imap access
imap_open ("{imap.gmail.com:993/imap/ssl}Inbox", "username@gmail.com", "password")

For POP access
imap_open("{pop.gmail.com:995/pop3/ssl}Inbox","username@gmail.com", "pasword")

In both of the cases it failed to connect. So, can anyone tell me how to connect gmail accounts using imap_open function?

[kev woodman]

Off the top of my head Google, Yahoo and implement imapi in a non-standard way. You could try using this library instead (it requires CURL) http://gmail-lite.sourceforge.net/wo...ut/libgmailer/.

[kev woodman]

It looks like phpMailer can do it as well in which case I can definitely recommend using that.

[SBh]

Phpmailer, yes i have used it for sending mail using gmail SMTP, it worked fine. But that's not the problem, actually I want to retrieve mails by either POP or IMAP.

And gmail-lite, I will give it a try, but I don't think it will work, because I have used gmail-mobile form the same author, which uses same library, but it didn't work. Still I will give another try to gmail-lite, it might work.

Anyway, thanks for your help.

[kev woodman]

Are you getting a particular error?

[SBh]

No, It's just a general error, that it can not connect to the server.

This thing is really strange, that almost every email clients which allow IMAP or POP3 can easily connect to Gmail, then why not PHP? I have searched the net but no one came out with any proper solution.

[kev woodman]

hmm - can you post your code?

[SBh]

There is no complex code, the error is at the elementary stage

$inbox=imap_open ("{imap.gmail.com:993/imap/ssl}Inbox", "username@gmail.com", "password")
 or die("Error: " . imap_last_error());

You execute this code with your IMAP enabled gmail account username, pass. If it fails to connect, error will be shown else nothing.

[studsy]

this is the code I use on one of my vbulletin forums...its in the form of a block, but the code is solid(even though it could be tidied up a bit lol)

<table border="0" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" class="tborder" width="100%">
<tr>
<td class="tcat"><span class="smallfont"><b>$vba_options[portal_blockbullet]
GMail Login</b></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="alt1" style="text-align:center; font-family:arial,sans-serif" nowrap=nowrap>



<div id=login style="font-family: arial,sans-serif">
<script type="text/javascript"><!--



function gaia_setFocus() {
var f = null;
if (document.getElementById) {
f = document.getElementById("gaia_loginform");
} else if (window.gaia_loginform) {
f = window.gaia_loginform;
}
if (f) {
if (f.Email.value == null || f.Email.value == "") {
f.Email.focus();
} else {
f.Passwd.focus();
}
}
}

//--> </script> <div style= id="gaia_loginbox" class="body"> <form action="https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLoginAuth" id="gaia_loginform" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="continue" value="http://gmail.google.com/gmail?ui=html&amp;zy=l"> <input type="hidden" name="service" value="mail"> <table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" border="0" id="gaia_table"> <tr>
<td class="alt1" style="font-family: arial,sans-serif">
<font color="#aa1002" style="font-family: arial,sans-serif"> <div class="errorbox-good"> </div> </font> </td> </tr> <tr>
<td class="alt1" nowrap style="font-family: arial,sans-serif" align="center">
&nbsp;<font size="-1" face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial,sans-serif">Username</font></td>
</tr> <tr>
<td class="alt1" style="font-family: arial,sans-serif" align="center">
<div align="left" style="font-family: arial,sans-serif"> <input type="text" name="Email" value="" size="18"></div> </td>
</tr> <tr>
<td class="alt1" style="font-family: arial,sans-serif" align="center">
&nbsp;<font size="-1">Password</font></td>
</tr> <tr>
<td class="alt1" style="font-family: arial,sans-serif" align="center">
<div class="alt1" align="left" style="font-family: arial,sans-serif"> <input type="password" name="Passwd" autocomplete="off" size="18"></div> </td>
</tr> <tr>
<td class="alt1" style="font-family: arial,sans-serif" align="center">
<div class="alt1" style="font-family: arial,sans-serif"> <input type="submit" name="null" value="Sign in"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </form> </div>

</div>

<script>
<!--
if (is_browser_supported) {
var form = el("gaia_loginform");
var url = form["continue"].value;
url = StripParam(url, "ui=html");
url = StripParam(url, "zy=l");
form["continue"].value = url;
}
// -->
</script>



</tr>
</table>
<br/>

Studsy

[kev woodman]

Can you talk us through that? Am I right in thinking this all takes place client side? What output do you end up with? Does it just open the gmail page in the browser or do you do some other processing that I'm missing?

[studsy]

You end up with a login box on your site. The visitor fills in the form, which then leads them to their inbox page(gmail.com). Hope this helps!

Studsy

[kev woodman]

Afraid not - what SBh is trying to do is open the Gmail inbox as a resource.

[kev woodman]

Just a thought but have you tried it without the SSL tag?

[SBh]

@studsy: This was not my problem, but still this type of login system is interesting. However did you try this type of login with Google Apps accounts, I failed to create such separate login forms for google apps accounts.