Question

I would like to use Email Yak to send and receive emails with PHP. Is this posssible? If so how would I go about it?

Answer 1

I am not sure why you would want to do this from PHP, but take a look at the ‘Send Email’ manual page at the Email Yak project.

You will need to use PHPs curl extension to make the HTTP requests with the appropriate headers and PHPs native json_encode() function to serialise the data you are sending.

A really simple curl example from jonasjohn.de to get you going:

function curl_download($Url){

// is cURL installed yet?
if (!function_exists('curl_init')){
    die('Sorry cURL is not installed!');
}

// OK cool - then let's create a new cURL resource handle
$ch = curl_init();

// Now set some options (most are optional)

// Set URL to download
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $Url);

// Set a referer
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, "http://www.example.org/yay.htm");

// User agent
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "MozillaXYZ/1.0");

// Include header in result? (0 = yes, 1 = no)
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

// Should cURL return or print out the data? (true = return, false =

print)
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

// Timeout in seconds
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);

// Download the given URL, and return output
$output = curl_exec($ch);

// Close the cURL resource, and free system resources
curl_close($ch);

return $output; 

}