imap_open Alternative

[redletterrocko]

Well, I've been working on a simple moblog software, and I'm pretty proud of what it's become. I've set it up so that a php script goes out at a set interval and looks for new mail from my cell phone (only mine for security purposes...) and parses the email into an xml file using a custom template that any user can edit and put their {VARIABLES} in the their desired places. Then it can be seen by the world. I tested everything, and it works fine locally. However, my webserver @ eventuallyanyway.com didn't compile --with-imap and they don't want to (apparently for security reasons...stupid...) so I get the unknown function imap_open error. Does anyone know of a third party script that I could also implement that would do the same thing as imap_open without the --with-imap apache option compiled? If I have to change syntax, I don't mind that. I just want to get this to work.

 

[sleipnir214]

What other functions does your hosting provider also not supply? Do you have PHP's socket commands available?


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[redletterrocko]

Here's the configuration that is installed. I got it from my phpinfo() function...

'./configure' '--with-apache=/root/vdeck/scripts/../work/apache_1.3.33' '--with-xml' '--enable-bcmath' '--enable-calendar' '--with-openssl=/usr/local/ssl' '--with-curl=/usr/local/lib' '--enable-ftp' '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local' '--with-png-dir=/usr' '--with-xpm-dir=/usr/X11R6' '--enable-magic-quotes' '--with-mysql' '--with-pear' '--enable-sockets' '--enable-track-vars' '--with-ttf' '--with-freetype-dir=/usr' '--enable-gd-native-ttf' '--with-zlib' '--with-mcrypt' '--with-gd' '--with-kerberos' '--enable-mbstring' '--enable-mbstr-enc-trans' '--enable-mbregex' '--enable-safe-mode' '--with-ming=../work/ming-0.2a'

I can't tell if sockets are available or not. Maybe you could help me figure it out. Is there a command I could use to figure it out?

 

[sleipnir214]

PHP was compiled with the '--enable-sockets' option, so it will at least have the low-level socket functions. Your hosting provider sounds appropriately paranoid, so other functions may or may not be available.

But a quick Google search of php imap class found several pages, the second of which (

http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/2351.html)

provides a PHP class that is described as, "It accesses IMAP server using TCP socket connections without using the PHP IMAP extension."

Perhaps that will be of use to you.


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