gmail imap help

[RMorrison]

I'm getting the following error when using imap_open for my gmail account:

 

 

Cannot connect to Gmail: Can not authenticate to IMAP server: [ALERT] Please log in via your web browser: https://support.google.com/mail/acco

 

I'm not getting any suspicious login emails on the account, and the one time I did I was asked to turn on access for less secure apps, which I did but it seems to keep defaulting back to being off. Anyone ele managed to get this working?

 

Code below:

<?php
/* connect to gmail */
$hostname = '{imap.gmail.com:993/imap/ssl}INBOX';
$username = 'myemail@gmail.com';
$password = 'mypassword';
/* try to connect */
$inbox = imap_open($hostname,$username,$password) or die('Cannot connect to Gmail: ' . imap_last_error());
/* grab emails */
$emails = imap_search($inbox,'ALL');
/* if emails are returned, cycle through each... */
if($emails) {        
        /* begin output var */
        $output = '';        
        /* put the newest emails on top */
        rsort($emails);        
        /* for every email... */
        foreach($emails as $email_number) {                
                /* get information specific to this email */
                $overview = imap_fetch_overview($inbox,$email_number,0);
                $message = imap_fetchbody($inbox,$email_number,2);                
                /* output the email header information */
                $output.= '<div class="toggler '.($overview[0]->seen ? 'read' : 'unread').'">';
                $output.= '<span class="subject">'.$overview[0]->subject.'</span> ';
                $output.= '<span class="from">'.$overview[0]->from.'</span>';
                $output.= '<span class="date">on '.$overview[0]->date.'</span>';
                $output.= '</div>';
                
                /* output the email body */
                $output.= '<div class="body">'.$message.'</div>';
        }        
        echo $output;
}
imap_close($inbox);

Edited March 17, 2017 by requinix
[php] -> [code]

[requinix]

It needs to be on. If it keeps turning off, I don't know, but it does have to be on for this to work.

[RMorrison]

Ok weird.. I got it to stay on by logging out of all my other accounts then changing it. works now