As years goes, so does the increase in SPAM on the web. Most users sign up on services with a fake E-Mail. They might even use other’s E-Mail for signing up. This is a big problem, because when you send an email to the signed up user, it goes to the wrong guy. So, you should verify user’s email before signing them up. You might think that it would cost database memory. Don’t worry, because my script won’t require storage of verification codes on database.
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Send Free E-Mails Using Mailgun API in PHP
E-Mails increases your site’s traffic. E-Mails are used in websites that require E-Mail verification to Reset Passwords. There is already a mail function in PHP, but the E-Mails that are sent via PHP‘s mail function goes to SPAM folder in most of the mail services. So, developers use API services to send E-Mails that gets received on user’s Inbox. Most of the API‘s need money to use. If you are a starting developer, you need a Free service. In fact there is a free service provided by Mailgun. 10,000 E-Mails are free in every month. Isn’t that a good offer ? You can sign up free without entering any credit card details. 
They have their own class for sending E-Mail’s in PHP, but in this post I will be introducing you to a simple PHP function (send_mail) that will send E-Mail‘s through Mailgun‘s API service vai cURL. I will also tell you the step by step instructions from signing up to sending mails. Like any other services, you have to sign up to use the features of Mailgun. You can sign up @ https://mailgun.com/signup. Fill up the required fields and click “Create Account” button. Now you need to get the API Key. Login to your new account. Note that you need to add your domain and verify your domain. If you don’t verify your domain, you will be limited to send only 300 mails per day. So you need to verify your domain. Go to the page https://mailgun.com/cp/my_account. On the left side, you can see the API key :
Implementing Login With Facebook In PHP
In the last post, I introduced you to a PHP OAuth Class named OAuth API. In this post I’m going to tell you how to implement Login With Facebook feature in PHP using the class I introduced. It’s very simple. I will tell the ways of implementing step by step. This tutorial includes placing a Login with Facebook button on web site to authorization and finishes when we get user details. You should read the previous post before starting this tutorial.
... [READ MORE]Uploading Images Using Imgur API in PHP
This tutorial was a request from Anandu.
Imgur provides developers to upload images anonymously using their app. For this you only need to signup for Imgur and get an Application Client ID. In this post I’m going to tell you the step by step process of uploading images using Imgur API in PHP. This is pretty easy. You only have to send a POST request to a file on their site.... [READ MORE]
Imgur provides developers to upload images anonymously using their app. For this you only need to signup for Imgur and get an Application Client ID. In this post I’m going to tell you the step by step process of uploading images using Imgur API in PHP. This is pretty easy. You only have to send a POST request to a file on their site.... [READ MORE]
Login with Google OAuth without using Google PHP Library
Google PHP Library is very hard to use and is very long. It wasted a lot of my time. So I decided to do it manually.
I created a new library for Google OAuth in PHP.
I created a new library for Google OAuth in PHP.
It is very simple to use and you don’t have to worry about a thing.
FAQ
How to get a client Id and Client Secret ?
1) Go to https://code.google.com/apis/console and create a new project.
2) Fill up the form.
3) In the redirect URL’s type in the URL of the index.php in your site.
4) Add your site URL as trusted Origin.
You will now get a client Id and a Client Secret Id. Type both of those in each $client_id and $client_secret variable of Configuration section in index.php file.