How do I send an email with game maker?

[Markus Villalobos]

Can someone give me a dummy explanation of how I could send an email using game maker?

I find tutorials on how to do this on other languages like java or python, but I can't find anything for game maker.

I'm not super familiar with concepts like SMTP, PHP, or email servers, but from my research I've seen people talk about these things, although I don't know if they are even necessary to acheive this.

I'll explain what I'm trying to do so you can get a better idea.
Basically, I have a login system, and if you forget your password, I want the game to be able to send a code to your email that you can use to reset your password.

Thanks in advance!

 

[sp202]

If the email host you use has an API you can use an API call to send an email.

 

[Markus Villalobos]

Alright, I did some research to understand what an API is, and it seems I could use Gmail's API.

Now... specifically for game maker, how would I go about doing this? I keep finding tutorials on other languages, but when I think about how to translate that to game maker I don't really get it.

How would I go about using an API with game maker?

 

[sp202]

This is generally all you need, along with reading the async_load ds_map in the Async event: https://docs.yoyogames.com/source/dadiospice/002_reference/asynchronous functions/http_get.html