I trying to send an email using Google API
Send email controller look as
public function sendMessage() { $client = self::getClient(); $service = new Google_Service_Gmail($client); $mailer = $service->users_messages; $message = (new Swift_Message('Here is my subject')) ->setFrom('myemailaddress@myserver.com') ->setTo(['receiver@someserver.com' => 'Test Name']) ->setContentType('text/html') ->setCharset('utf-8') ->setBody('<h4>Here is my body</h4>'); $msg_base64 = (new Swift_Mime_ContentEncoder_Base64ContentEncoder()) ->encodeString($message->toString()); $message = new Google_Service_Gmail_Message(); $message->setRaw($msg_base64); $message = $mailer->send('me', $message); print_r($message); }
getClient class:
function getClient() { $client = new Google_Client(); $client->setRedirectUri('http://' . 'site.com' . '/oauth2callback.php'); $client->setApplicationName('Gmail API PHP'); $client->setScopes(Google_Service_Gmail::GMAIL_READONLY); $client->setAuthConfig('credentials.json'); $client->setAccessType('offline'); $client->setPrompt('select_account consent'); return $client; }
When I’m trying to run this I receiving error:
{ "error": { "code": 401, "message": "Request is missing required authentication credential. Expected OAuth 2 access token, login cookie or other valid authentication credential. See https://developers.google.com/identity/sign-in/web/devconsole-project.", "errors": [ { "message": "Login Required.", "domain": "global", "reason": "required", "location": "Authorization", "locationType": "header" } ], "status": "UNAUTHENTICATED" } }
credentials.json
{"web":{ "client_id":"REDACTED", "project_id":"project-44", "auth_uri":"https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth", "token_uri":"https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token", "auth_provider_x509_cert_url":"https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v1/certs", "client_secret":"redacted", "access_token":"redacted"}}
What can be wrong with my code? When I’m trying to print out $client it displays required data. Or how I shall to login to use it properly without interruptions? I’ve logged in before(several hours ago).
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Answer
It looks like you’re missing the step where you obtain and/or set the access token or refresh token. In the PHP Quickstart for Gmail, it’s this chunk of code:
// Load previously authorized token from a file, if it exists. // The file token.json stores the user's access and refresh tokens, and is // created automatically when the authorization flow completes for the first // time. $tokenPath = 'token.json'; if (file_exists($tokenPath)) { $accessToken = json_decode(file_get_contents($tokenPath), true); $client->setAccessToken($accessToken); } // If there is no previous token or it's expired. if ($client->isAccessTokenExpired()) { // Refresh the token if possible, else fetch a new one. if ($client->getRefreshToken()) { $client->fetchAccessTokenWithRefreshToken($client->getRefreshToken()); } else { // Request authorization from the user. $authUrl = $client->createAuthUrl(); printf("Open the following link in your browser:n%sn", $authUrl); print 'Enter verification code: '; $authCode = trim(fgets(STDIN)); // Exchange authorization code for an access token. $accessToken = $client->fetchAccessTokenWithAuthCode($authCode); $client->setAccessToken($accessToken); // Check to see if there was an error. if (array_key_exists('error', $accessToken)) { throw new Exception(join(', ', $accessToken)); } } // Save the token to a file. if (!file_exists(dirname($tokenPath))) { mkdir(dirname($tokenPath), 0700, true); } file_put_contents($tokenPath, json_encode($client->getAccessToken())); } return $client; }
To break it down a bit:
- You need to request authorization from the user by sending them to the authorization URL (
$client->createAuthUrl()
) - then exchange the code for an access token (
$client->fetchAccessTokenWithAuthCode($authCode)
) - and either set it on your client (
$client->setAccessToken($accessToken)
) or save it for future use.
In addition to the access token, you’ll also want to save the refresh token that gets returned so you don’t have to re-login every time ($client->fetchAccessTokenWithRefreshToken($refreshToken)
). If you’ve gone through this process already, it’s possible that your access token expired and you need to either use the refresh token or re-authenticate to get access again.
If you’re developing this application for more users than just yourself, you may want to look into managed OAuth platforms like Xkit, where I work. They handle the process of getting authorization, refreshing tokens, etc, along with encrypting the tokens and storing them for each individual user.