PHP is a powerful open source server-sided scripting language that can be used on a wide variety of operating systems and webservers, including Apache on UNIX and IIS on Windows.
PHP contains numerous extensions which enable you to dynamically create images and flash files, parse xml, connect to remote servers using pop, imap, ftp, http and raw sockets, natively access many database servers including PostgreSql, MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server, compress and decompress files, lookup domain names and and much more.
PHP has an excellent manual and online documentation which covers every function for every extension available.
This post is part of a series about downloading email using the PHP IMAP functions. The ultimate goal of the series is to show how to export Google Analytics data by email, and then use PHP to connect to the mail server, find and download the appropriate message and then load the data into a database. This post looks at how to look for a specific email message using the PHP IMAP functions.
A couple of weeks back I posted how to use the PHP IMAP functions to download email from an IMAP server. This post looks at how to do the same but downloading IMAP mail from Gmail, which you need to connect to on a different port and use SSL. Earlier today I posted how to enable IMAP mail access in Gmail so you’ll need to ensure that’s done first.
You can define constants in PHP with the define() function and can check if a constant has already been defined with the defined() function. This post looks at both functions with some examples.
This post looks at how to connect to a POP or IMAP mailbox using PHP’s IMAP mail functions and retrive the number of messages in the mailbox, the message headers and body, and then to delete the message.
This post is part of an ongoing series which aims to show how to extract data from Google Analytics using its scheduled email reports system. I have already looked at how to send Google Analytics data by email, and how to use the PHP IMAP functions to download email. I will also look at using other PHP libraries to download email and attachments, but for now this post looks at how to extract email attachmentsusing the PHP IMAP functions.
I recently made some minor layout changes to my blog including the positioning of the advertising from the top of each article to after the first paragraph. In this post I share the PHP code used to add some additional HTML code after the first closing </p> tag in a page’s content.