Hi friends
Is it posssible to create an email account in the cpanel without manualy logging in ? I want to create a php script which logs into the cpanel and create an email account . I hope i would get a solution form u guys
Thanks
Hi vssp;
Fortunately CPanel does not use sessions, as Rotak mentioned. Therefore constructing the right HTTP request is not difficult.
If you try a http request to the Cpanel url, you will notice that you receive a 401 response header. This is good news since it means Cpanel uses HTTP Basic Authentication (Digest Auth also sends the same header, but since its not supported on all browsers, I guess cpanel opts for Basic Auth). This is easy to make a http request for in php.
With Basic Authentication username and password is passed as plain text . With php you can use the syntax similar to logging into ftp.
http://user:password@domain.com:port
with any of the stream functions, such as fopen, file_get_contents, fsockopen, file etc.
Example:
[PHP]$fp = fopen('http://user:password@domain.com:port', 'r');[/PHP]
For creating an email account on Cpanel, the url is of the structure:
http://[example.com]:[2082]/frontend/[x]/mail/doaddpop.html?email=[test]&domain=[example.com]&password=[test]"a=[10]
The chars in brackets [] are dependant on yoru Cpanel setup or the email account.
Heres an example script:
[PHP]<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Add Cpanel Email Accounts</title>
</head>
<body>
<fieldset>
<legend>Add a Cpanel Email Account</legend>
<form name="add_cpemail">
<fieldset>
<legend>Username</legend>
<input type="text" name="username" class="form_text" />
</fieldset>
<fieldset>
<legend>Password</legend>
<input type="password" name="password1" class="form_text" />
</fieldset>
<fieldset>
<legend>Re-type your Password</legend>
<input type="password" name="password2" class="form_text" />
</fieldset>
<fieldset>
<input type="submit" name="send" class="form_button" value="Create Email Account" />
</fieldset>
</form>
</fieldset>
<div style="text-align:center;color:#c0c0c0;">© <a href="http://www.fijiwebdesign.com/">Fiji Web Design</a>™</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
// form validation
function init() {
var f = document.forms.add_cpemail;
var e = f.elements;
f.onsubmit = function() {
// check username
if (!e.username.value || e.username.value == '') {
alert('Enter a username.');
return false;
}
// check password
if (e.password1.value != e.password2.value) {
alert('Please verify that your password and password confirmation match.');
return false;
}
}
}
window.onload = init();
//-->
</script>
<?php
// required cpanel data
define( 'CPEMAIL_DOMAIN', 'example.com'); // Cpanel domain
define( 'CPEMAIL_SSL', 0); // 0 = no SSL, 1 = Uses SSL
define( 'CPEMAIL_PORT', 2082); // usually the port is 2082 withought SSL and 2083 with SSL
define( 'CPEMAIL_THEME', 'bluelagoon'); // x is the default theme, others include: bluelagoon, x2, xmail, xcontroller, monsoon
define( 'CPEMAIL_QUOTA', 10); // email quota in Megabytes
// sensitive cpanel info
define( 'CPEMAIL_USER', 'username'); // Cpanel Username
define( 'CPEMAIL_PASS', 'password'); // Cpanel Password
if (isset($_GET['send'])) {
$username = $_GET['username'];
$password = $_GET['password1'];
$url = 'http'.(CPEMAIL_SSL ? 's' : '').'://'.CPEMAIL_USER.':'.CPEMAIL_PASS.'@'.CPEMAIL_DOMAIN.':'.CPEMAIL_PORT.'/frontend/'.CPEMAIL_THEME.'/mail/doaddpop.html';
$url .= '?email='.$username.'&domain='.CPEMAIL_DOMAIN.'&password='.$password.'"a='.CPEMAIL_QUOTA;
// make the http request to cpanel, this is where the email is created
// this is just like the browser making the request, only php does it for the user
$txt = http_request( $url );
// in a live situation, you would parse the returned html, and see if the email was successfully created.
// because this is dependent on the Cpanel theme, I didnt put it in.
// A simple test example would be:
// if (strpos($txt, 'Successful') !== false) { echo 'Your account was created, please log in.'; }
// the above checks for the occurance of Successful in the returned html, which occurs when an email is created (english)
// note: different Cpanel themes give different html output, and may be in English or other language
echo '<hr />';
echo $txt; // show the result of the http request
}
// makes an fopen request to the url and returns the content
function http_request($url) {
ini_set('user_agent','MSIE 4\.0b2;'); // set user agent as IE browser
$txt = '';
if ($fp = fopen($url, 'r')) {
while( !feof($fp) ) {
$txt .= fread( $fp, 2082 );
}
fclose($fp);
}
return $txt;
}
?>
</body>
</html>
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