Retrieve Your Gmail Emails Using PHP and IMAP

In this post, I will show you, how you can write a program that fetches the recent emails from your gmail inbox. In this post I will be just fetching 4 latest emails.

<?php 

 $hostname = '{imap.gmail.com:993/imap/ssl}INBOX';
 $server = '{imap.googlemail.com:993/imap/ssl/novalidate-cert}INBOX'; 
 $username = 'email@gmail.com';
 $password = 'password';
 
 // try to connect 
 $inbox = imap_open($server,$username,$password) or die('Cannot connect to Gmail: ' . imap_last_error());
 
 $no=imap_num_msg($inbox); //get total number of mails
 $newsArray=array();

 //get the latest 4 emails
 for($i=$no;$i>$no-4;$i--){
    $news=array();
    $news['text']=imap_fetchbody($inbox,$i,1);
  
    $overview = imap_fetch_overview($inbox,$i);
    $news['author']=$overview[0]->from;
    $news['status']=$overview[0]->seen;
    $news['date']=$overview[0]->date;
    $news['title']=$overview[0]->subject;
  
  array_push($newsArray,$news);
 }

 foreach($newsArray as $n){
   echo "Author: ".$n['author']."<br />";
   echo "Title: ".$n['title']."<br />";
   echo "Date: ".$n['date']."<br />";
   echo "Text: ".$n['text']."<br />";
   echo "<hr />";
 }

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

?>

Hope you like it. :)