Listen to your Emails – Part I January 28, 2009
Continuing with the series of integrating voice into the web, here is an IMAP email client application. This code shows how VoicePHP can be used to easily write web applications which speaks and listens.
This demo does the following:
- It establishes an IMAP connection to the specified IMAP server.
- It fetches the new messages in the last 2 days.
- It reads out the subject of the mail and allows you to hear the body of the message by pressing 1.
The application can be easily customized to your needs. For sake of demonstrating it, we’ve customized it to read emails from test.voicephp@gmail.com. To try it out, just send an email to test.voicephp@gmail.com and then click on the widget below to hear your message being read out.
We can’t wait to see how a VoiceXML based email client code would look like. Any takers?
<?php
echo "Welcome To VoicePHP E Mail Reader Demo";
$mail = imap_open('{imap.gmail.com:993/imap/ssl}INBOX', 'test.voicephp@gmail.com', '********')
or die("Connection to mail server failed: ". imap_last_error());
//Search mailbox for unread messages
$messages=imap_search ($mail, 'UNSEEN SINCE ' . date('d-M-Y', time() - 7200) . '');
if($messages > 1) {
rsort($messages);
$count = count($messages);
echo "You have $count new unread mails";
echo "To hear the body of a mail, press 1 after the subject is read,
press 0 to exit anytime";
get_subject($messages,$count,$subject,$header,$mail);
for($i=0;$i<$count;$i++){
$voicetype = ($i&1)?"female":"male";
setvoiceoption("voicetype", $voicetype);
$op = prompt($subject[$i], 1, 1, "dtmf:1");
if($op == "1") {
read_mail($messages[$i], $mail);
echo "Returning to subject menu";
}
elseif($op == "0") {
break;
}
}
}
else {
echo "You have no new mails";
}
imap_close($mail);
echo "Thank you for trying Voice PHP Demo";
//Get the subject of the mail ..
function get_subject($messages,$count,&$subject,&$header,$mail){
for($i=0;$i<$count;$i++) {
//Get IMAP header info for mail
$header = imap_headerinfo($mail, $messages[$i]);
$subject[$i] = "Mail from " . $header->from[0]->personal . " with subject " . $header->subject;
}
}
//Read a mail body..
function read_mail($num,$mail) {
// Get the message body
$st = imap_fetchstructure($mail, $num);
if (!empty($st->parts)) {
for ($i = 0, $j = count($st->parts); $i < $j; $i++) {
$part = $st->parts[$i];
if ($part->subtype == 'PLAIN') {
$body = imap_fetchbody($mail, $num, $i+1);
}
}
} else {
$body = imap_body($mail, $num);
}
echo $body;
}
?>
Try It Now!
Click the button below or call +15672440715 to run the application.
Does'nt it look easy? Try VoicePHP for yourself and feel free to modify the above script. VoicePHP is easy and accessible from your free TringMe account. More details at http://voicephp.com/howitworks.html
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