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IMAP Login Secure

Demonstrates how to use the LoginSecure method introduced in Chilkat v9.5.0.71.

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<?php

$success = 0;

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

$imap = new COM("Chilkat.Imap");

// Connect to an IMAP server..
$imap->Ssl = 1;
$imap->Port = 993;
$success = $imap->Connect('imap.mail.me.com');
if ($success != 1) {
    print $imap->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

// Imagine we've previously saved our encrypted login and password within a JSON config file
// that contains this:

// {
//   "imap_login": "fLkxsfnVaIWLiL/R32jo6g==",
//   "imap_password": "/NbaFBoCftBLFf8WBU9Xtw=="
// }

$json = new COM("Chilkat.JsonObject");
$json->LoadFile('qa_data/passwords/imap.json');

$crypt = new COM("Chilkat.Crypt2");

// These are the encryption settings we previously used to encrypt the credentials within the JSON config file.
$crypt->CryptAlgorithm = 'aes';
$crypt->CipherMode = 'cbc';
$crypt->KeyLength = 128;
$crypt->SetEncodedKey('000102030405060708090A0B0C0D0E0F','hex');
$crypt->SetEncodedIV('000102030405060708090A0B0C0D0E0F','hex');
$crypt->EncodingMode = 'base64';

$ssLogin = new COM("Chilkat.SecureString");
$ssPassword = new COM("Chilkat.SecureString");

// Decrypt to the secure string.  (the strings will still held in memory encrypted, but are now encrypted using
// a randomly generated session key.)
$crypt->DecryptSecureENC($json->stringOf('imap_login'),$ssLogin);
$crypt->DecryptSecureENC($json->stringOf('imap_password'),$ssPassword);

// Pass the credentials to the LoginSecure method:
$success = $imap->LoginSecure($ssLogin,$ssPassword);
if ($success != 1) {
    print $imap->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

// ...

$imap->Disconnect();

?>