Automatic email creation in cpanel ----PHP

[vssp]

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

[Vinoth]

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

you cannot do it, nor cpanel would allow do it even if u create a script.

coz it is a security factor.

[vssp]

how to access the cpanel using script?

[Rotak]

Basically, it's possible, but not easy.

1) You have to do some reverse engineering of CPanel (which normally is forbidden by the licence agreement), to find out how/where CPanel stores the email accounts in its database.

2) You need to do exactly what CPanel does, such as adding the email account to the mailer deamon's user database and (maybe) restart the deamon or rebuild the database, using a console command.

I don't think you'd be able to use the internal CPanel functions from an outside script. Either the code is crypted or you need a valid session to use the functions.

The other way you could do it is as difficult as the first one. You could emulate a browser, open a session and add the email account. But this requires a lot of knowledge about session cookies and the http protocol (how to build the headers).
If CPanel uses (forces) https (secure) connections, simply forget the second solution!

[digital-ether]

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<?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.'&quota='.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 '';
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;

}

?>

[digital-ether]

Sorry, you need to change the values for the defined vars to match your cpanel setup. You can get these values by logging into cpanel, and creating an email account then, looking at the url.

Heres what you need to change:

[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
[/php]

[digital-ether]

Another method of logging into sites and doing stuff is to use JavaScript. With xmlHTTPRequest, you can also specify HTTP headers, and thus reply to a Basic Auth header with the username and password.

Problem with this is the same domain policy, but I've seen workaround for this on the web.

But since this is a php forum, I wont post any solutiosn here.

[Rotak]

Fortunately CPanel does not use sessions, as Rotak mentioned. Therefore constructing the right HTTP request is not difficult.

Ooooops... Sorry, I think I mixed CPanel and Plesk. :-| :rolleyes: :o

[digital-ether]

If CPanel uses (forces) https (secure) connections, simply forget the second solution!

I forgot to mention. If cpanel forces https, the method I just posted will most likely not work.

You'd have to use some php libs that understand the SSL protocol, like CURL. An alternative is using the Sockets function in PHP, but you'd have to be ready to write a huge lib and know SSL and HTTP well. (I dont think I've seen a SSL lib for php).Another method of logging into sites and doing stuff is to use JavaScript. With xmlHTTPRequest, you can also specify HTTP headers, and thus reply to a Basic Auth header with the username and password.

I found this great resource: http://www.peej.co.uk/articles/http-auth-with-html-forms.html

[vssp]

Thanks for all i got the solution: refer this link

http://www.zubrag.com/scripts/cpanel-create-email-account.php

Thsi very usefull for using script to access the cpanel

Thanks
vssp