Hacking Gmail

140 Part II — Getting Inside Gmail

Listing 8-3 gives you a complete script, printing to the screen a count of the new

mail in your account.

Listing 8-3:Checking for New Mail in PHP

<?PHP

require(“libgmailer.php”);

$gm = new GMailer();

$name = “USERNAME”;

$pwd = “PASSWORD”;

$tz = “0”;

$new = 0;

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

if ($gm->connect()) {

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

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

if ($snapshot) {

for ($i = 0;$i < $snapshot->box_total ; $i++ )

{

if ($snapshot->box[$i][“is_read”] == 1)

{ $new++;

}

}

echo “You have”. $new. “new messages”;

}

}

?>

Building on the Basics

Python’s libgmail provides the simplest method to get a new mail count: There’s a

specific function that you can use.

So, as usual, you first need to log in and check for errors there: