PHP ActiveX

Move a GMail Message to Trash

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Moves a specific GMail email message to trash. PHP ActiveX

<?php

$success = 0;

// This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
// See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

$http = new COM("Chilkat.Http");
$http->AuthToken = 'GMAIL-ACCESS-TOKEN';

// The id of the GMail message to move to Trash.
$id = '16678c485e7f0a0c';
$userId = 'me';

$http->SetUrlVar('userId','me');
$http->SetUrlVar('id',$id);

// Move to trash by POSTing w/ an empty request body.
$url = 'https://www.googleapis.com/gmail/v1/users/{$userId}/messages/{$id}/trash';
$resp = new COM("Chilkat.HttpResponse");
$success = $http->HttpStr('POST',$url,'','','',$resp);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $http->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

print 'status = ' . $resp->StatusCode . "\n";

// A 200 response status indicate success.
if ($resp->StatusCode != 200) {
    print $resp->BodyStr . "\n";
    print 'Failed.' . "\n";
    exit;
}

// A successful repsonse contains JSON that looks like this:

// {
//  "id": "16678c485e7f0a0c",
//  "threadId": "16678c485e7f0a0c",
//  "labelIds": [
//   "TRASH",
//   "CATEGORY_SOCIAL"
//  ]
// }

print 'response body:' . "\n";
print $resp->BodyStr . "\n";

print 'Message moved to trash!' . "\n";

?>