download gmail attachements from php

can you please tell , how to download atta开发者_如何学Pythonchments from gmail account using php ? thanks

you could use a php pop or imap client and fetch the mail and extract the attachments from that

As stated by other answerers, an IMAP solution is recommended, and can be found at http://davidwalsh.name/gmail-php-imap. Make sure to check your firewall, and enable the OpenSSL and IMAP in your PHP installation.

http://www.electrictoolbox.com/extract-attachments-email-php-imap/ has excellent code references regarding how to analyze each email's structure using imap_fetchstructure. In the structure of each message lie the attachments. The user contributed notes at http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.imap-fetchstructure.php are particularly helpful (as is the documentation).

Basically, you have to

• loop through the structure parts
• determine which of them are attachments
• decode as appropriate.

Different email clients will have slightly different structures, but it's not too hard with a little effort. The data can then be handled however you choose.

IMAP Solution

/* connect to gmail */
$hostname = '{imap.gmail.com:993/imap/ssl}INBOX';
$username = 'davidwalshblog@gmail.com';
$password = 'davidwalsh';

/* try to connect */
$inbox = imap_open($hostname,$username,$password) or die('Cannot connect to Gmail: ' . imap_last_error());

/* grab emails */
$emails = imap_search($inbox,'ALL');

/* if emails are returned, cycle through each... */
if($emails) {

    /* begin output var */
    $output = '';

    /* put the newest emails on top */
    rsort($emails);

    /* for every email... */
    foreach($emails as $email_number) {

        /* get information specific to this email */
        $overview = imap_fetch_overview($inbox,$email_number,0);
        $message = imap_fetchbody($inbox,$email_number,2);

        /* output the email header information */
        $output.= '<div class="toggler '.($overview[0]->seen ? 'read' : 'unread').'">';
        $output.= '<span class="subject">'.$overview[0]->subject.'</span> ';
        $output.= '<span class="from">'.$overview[0]->from.'</span>';
        $output.= '<span class="date">on '.$overview[0]->date.'</span>';
        $output.= '</div>';

        /* output the email body */
        $output.= '<div class="body">'.$message.'</div>';
    }

    echo $output;
} 

/* close the connection */
imap_close($inbox);

You must add to it attachment control and you can read this because from it is this source code http://davidwalsh.name/gmail-php-imap