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Interested in creating a web-based CRM application that can do metrics based on emails. I'm using Laravel (PHP) for the creation of this application and the client is using Google Business Apps (Gmail). Gmail provides an API that allows you to take different actions. My main interest is running metrics and viewing stats on the customer emails (e.g. response times, most active customer, least active customer, etc).
The other approach is to somehow download all the emails to a MySQL database and query them directly.
Can someone suggest a method to query my Gmail email from Laravel that involves these methods or even a different method?
Why not try using IMAP? This way it won't be Gmail specific and you could use almost any email provider. From there you could parse out all the info you need from the email headers (sender, date, subject, etc) and store it in a DB. PHP has a module for IMAP but there are also some nice composer packages such as Fetch that will help speed up development.
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I have a PHP web application hosted on managed cloud server that doesn't provide mail server. I need two email addresses. One just for sending automated emails (Transaction email) and one for receiving and sending emails manually. What are my solutions? My application will send more than 500 emails per day.
Check out Mailgun
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Easiest:
Create a GMail AC enable POP3 email forwarding in the SETTINGS and you use the settings within the PHP code and you are done.
Best Solution:
Try large scale solutions (cloud based):
sendgrid.com or mailgun.com they are best for large email blast.
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I'm going to build a back-end API REST using Laravel 5 for an iOS application (perhaps for Android in the future) so I found a couple of packages on github for the API authentication:
https://github.com/chrisbjr/api-guard
https://github.com/lucadegasperi/oauth2-server-laravel
And I want to know what's the different between them and what package could be the good choice for my API and of course If you have some advices or another packages to use, will be perfect.
Kind regards.
The oAuth2 server package follows rfc6749 and will help you have an Auth server like fb. (please see the link I provided for more information)
You may use a second app for it to separate your servers. (Auth server - resource server)
I never used api-guard but as it says in read me, It will provide a basic api key protection.
If you are planning to share your api with third party apps with user permission, I advice you to follow the oAuth2 path.
But if you are planning to use it in your app only, you definitely need api key only. Don't spend time for oAuth2 configurations.
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I have a web app built on zend that send email notifications for different events (signup, someone follows you etc...). It is using php mail. The emails get sent out as part of action hooks that fire at various events. I am looking for recommendations for a service that will take over the sending of the emails. Thanks in advance!
we use http://sendgrid.com/ at our shop.
Amazon SES or Sailthru
I do like sailthru, they can host your email templates, logs of every sent email (so you can resend), open rates, etc. It's a white listing service and their PHP API is easssy to use.
Postmark is quite nice, with a very powerful API.
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At my company I have to do a lot of domain registration.
Is there a way for me to write something in a common web-language e.g. Ruby/Python/PHP that would allow me to buy a domain name from my own custom web-interface? In essence I'm looking for an API that would allow me to register domains.
Any ideas?
If I understand correctly, you want to create a web interface to register domains from a variety of domain registrars?
Most of these companies have published APIs or web services to allow just this use case, so you'll need to check with each one you deal with and find out what they offer, and how to use them. Many will also offer client libraries targetting their API, in a variety of languages, so your choice of development tools will be informed in part by the availability of such libs.
It's also possible, that you will find plugins for Rails or Django that'll get you started - but I haven't checked.
If you are dealing direct with registries, as distinct from registrars, you may be able to use their EPP implementation.
I personally can recommend www.opensrs.com. They provide APIs for PHP and Ruby. With these APIs you can order DOMAINS, EMAIL HOSTING and SSL certificate. See http://www.opensrs.com/integration/api for more details.
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I want to make a Facebook like SMS sending and receiving service. Are there any PHP API to do that? I want to use a specific number like Facebook.
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Sending SMS through E-mail is possible but how can I receive SMSs through my PHP application? I am searching for a free PHP API without any external hardware to do that. Is it possible?
In case your search for free doesn't work out:
I've recently been playing around with Twilio: http://www.twilio.com/
And they've recently cleaned up their API:
http://blog.twilio.com/2010/08/announcing-the-new-twilio-api-version-2010-04-01.html
They also have contests running. Maybe your app will fall into a category and land some free marketing :)
If you want it to work in India, use smsgupshup.com's API to create SMS applications.
This software will let you receive sms in PHP: Receive SMS
It connects to a 3G/GSM modem or dongle and will automatically post incoming SMS messages to your website where you can handle them using a simple PHP script