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Send GMail using REST API

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Demonstrates how to send an email using the GMail REST API. Chilkat2 PHP

<?php

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

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

// Use the Chilkat Email API to create or load an email.
$email = new Email();

// The From name/address don't need to be specified.
// GMail will automatically use your Gmail address if the following 2 lines are omitted.
$email->FromName = 'My Name';
$email->FromAddress = 'my_account_name@gmail.com';

$email->AddTo('John Smith', 'somebody@somewhere.com');
// To add more recipients, make additional calls to AddTo or AddCC, one per recipient...

$email->Subject = 'This is a test GMail email created using Chilkat.';
$email->Charset = 'utf-8';
$email->AddPlainTextAlternativeBody('This is a test');

// Create an HTML email body with an embedded image.
$cid = $email->AddRelatedFile('qa_data/jpg/starfish.jpg');
$sbHtml = new StringBuilder();
$sbHtml->Append('<html><body>This is a <b>test</b><br><img src="cid:STARFISH_CID"/></body></html>');
$numReplacements = $sbHtml->Replace('STARFISH_CID', $cid);

$email->AddHtmlAlternativeBody($sbHtml->GetAsString());

// OK.. we now have an HTML email with an embedded JPG image
// We'll need to get the full MIME of the email encoded to a base64url string.
$sbMime = new StringBuilder();
$email->GetMimeSb($sbMime);
$sbMime->Encode('base64url', 'utf-8');

// The body of the HTTP request will be JSON..
$json = new JsonObject();
$json->UpdateSb('raw', $sbMime);

// Send the email...
$http = new Http();
$http->AuthToken = 'GMAIL-ACCESS-TOKEN';

$url = 'https://www.googleapis.com/gmail/v1/users/me/messages/send';
$resp = new HttpResponse();
try {
    $http->HttpJson('POST', $url, $json, 'application/json', $resp);
} catch (\Chilkat2\Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage(), "\n";
    exit;
}

// A status code of 200 indicates success.
echo 'Response status code: ', $resp->StatusCode, "\n";
echo "Response body:\n";
echo $resp->BodyStr, "\n";

// The response body contains JSON.
// Use the online tool at Generate JSON Parsing Code
// to generate JSON parsing code.

// A sample successful JSON response:

// {
//  "id": "166f0d4ac39e50bf",
//  "threadId": "166f0d4ac39e50bf",
//  "labelIds": [
//   "SENT"
//  ]
// }