Hacking Gmail

126 Part II — Getting Inside Gmail

Once you’ve requested the Inbox and created a Snapshot, you can query that

Snapshotfor details. To print out the number of threads within the Inbox, you

can say this:

echo “Threads in the inbox:”. $snapshot->box_total;

In order to get the Thread ID of the first thread in the Inbox, you can do this:

$threaded = $snapshot->box[0][“id”];

As you can see from the code and the preceding tables, it’s really quite a straight-

forward interface. You’ll be using the interface in later chapters, but to finish,

Listing 7-2 shows PHP code using the Gmailer library to log in and display the

Reading the First Message in the Inbox

Listing 7-2:Reading the First Message in the Inbox

<?php

require(“libgmailer.php”);

$gm = new GMailer();

$name = “username”;

$pwd = “password”;

$tz = “0”;

$gm->setLoginInfo($name, $pwd, $tz);

if ($gm->connect()) {

$gm->fetchBox(GM_STANDARD, Inbox, 0);

$snapshot = $gm->getSnapshot(GM_STANDARD);

$threaded = $snapshot->box[0][“id”];

$gm->fetchBox(GM_CONVERSATION, $threaded, 0);

$snapshot = $gm->getSnapshot(GM_CONVERSATION);

echo “The first message reads”. $snapshot-

>conv[0][“body”];

}

$gm->disconnect();

?>

You return to this library in later chapters.