PHP

Download a Specific GMail Message into a Chilkat Email Object

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Demonstrates how to download a GMail message into a Chilkat Email object. Chilkat2 PHP

<?php

use Chilkat2\Email;
use Chilkat2\Http;
use Chilkat2\JsonObject;
use Chilkat2\StringBuilder;

// This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
// See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

$http = new Http();
$http->AuthToken = 'GMAIL-ACCESS-TOKEN';

// The id of the GMail message to download.
$id = '166e50fed0b9b0cb';
$userId = 'me';

$http->SetUrlVar('userId', 'me');
$http->SetUrlVar('id', $id);

// Fetch the email.
$url = 'https://www.googleapis.com/gmail/v1/users/{$userId}/messages/{$id}?format=raw';
$sbJson = new StringBuilder();
try {
    $http->DownloadSb($url, 'utf-8', $sbJson);
} catch (\Chilkat2\Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage(), "\n";
    exit;
}

$json = new JsonObject();
$json->LoadSb($sbJson);
$json->EmitCompact = false;

if ($http->LastStatus != 200) {
    echo $json->Emit(), "\n";
    echo "Failed.\n";
    exit;
}

// The returned JSON contains something like this:

// {
//   "id": "166e50fed0b9b0cb",
//   "threadId": "166e50fed0b9b0cb",
//   "labelIds": [
//     "CATEGORY_SOCIAL",
//     "INBOX"
//   ],
//   "snippet": "...",
//   "historyId": "582477",
//   "internalDate": "1541441317000",
//   "sizeEstimate": 28603,
//   "raw": "BASE64URL_CONTENT"
// }

// The RFC822 MIME of the email is contained in the "raw" as a base64URL encoded string.
// Let's decode and load into a Chilkat email object..
$sbRaw = new StringBuilder();
$json->StringOfSb('raw', $sbRaw);
$sbRaw->Decode('base64url', 'utf-8');

$email = new Email();
$email->SetFromMimeSb($sbRaw);

// Now we can use the email API to do whatever we desire..
echo 'From: ', $email->FromAddress, "\n";
echo 'Subject: ', $email->Subject, "\n";
// ...