Question

I was looking for uploading photos by email documents (in php) but couldn’t find good one.

Is there any easy ways to upload pictures/photos by email?

ie. steps,

1) on mobile devices, email a picture to [e-mail]
2) copy the picture into our server like facebook or flickr

ps. I run apache servers, mysql and php

Answer 1

There are a number of different approaches to receiving email with PHP. The main options are:

• Retrieve the emails via background job (cron etc) and IMAP/POP3
• Run a mail server and make that send the content into the app directly (pipe it into php)
• Use a third party service

I wrote a blog post that was for Rails here, although it’s for Rails pretty much all the principals still apply to PHP and translate directly.