OT: Email attachments with PHP?

Report · Oct 09, 2006

I want to send an email with a file attachment.

Is there an easy way to do this, or is it as arcane as I think it is?

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Report · Oct 09, 2006

Murray *ACE* wrote:
> I want to send an email with a file attachment.
>
> Is there an easy way to do this, or is it as arcane as I think it is?

http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net/

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Report · Oct 09, 2006

Easiest way is to use a pre made PHP class, such as PHP Mailer

http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net/

Allows you to easily send attachments with your email messages. It can
obviously be done with your own PHP code, but its *much* easier to use
something like the class above than trying to code it yourself.

Scroll down the page above, and in the example it shows you how to send
attachments

Gareth
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Report · Oct 09, 2006

Thank you both. I was not aware of this nice class!

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"gareth" <gareth@buzzinet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:egdm3j$q52$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> Easiest way is to use a pre made PHP class, such as PHP Mailer
>
> http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net/
>
> Allows you to easily send attachments with your email messages. It can
> obviously be done with your own PHP code, but its *much* easier to use
> something like the class above than trying to code it yourself.
>
> Scroll down the page above, and in the example it shows you how to send
> attachments
>
> Gareth
> http://www.phploginsuite.co.uk/
> PHP Login Suite V2 - 34 Server Behaviors to build a complete Login system.
>

Report · Oct 09, 2006

On 09 Oct 2006 in macromedia.dreamweaver.appdev, Murray *ACE* wrote:

> I want to send an email with a file attachment.
>
> Is there an easy way to do this, or is it as arcane as I think it is?

php.net knows all, tells all:

Note: Email with attachments and special types of content (e.g.
HTML) can be sent using this function. This is accomplished via
MIME-encoding - for more information, see this Zend article or the
PEAR Mime Classes.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

Refers to:

Zend article: http://www.zend.com/zend/spotlight/sendmimeemailpart1.php
PEAR Mime classes: http://pear.php.net/package/Mail_Mime

But the short version:
- encode the attachment. This is normally done for you by your mail
client; it's easy enough to find software to do it. You can even
convince PHP to do it on the fly.
- create the message as mime-encoded:
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="=====================_100756562==_"
- Add your text
- Add a boundary:
--=====================_100756562==_
- Add your mime-encoded content:
Content-Type: image/jpeg; name="glynn.jpg";
x-mac-type="4A504547"; x-mac-creator="4A565752"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="glynn.jpg"

/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAgEBLAEsAAD/7QE0UGhvdG9zaG9wIDMuMAA4QklNA+ 0AAAAAABABLAAAAAEA
[snip - a couple hundred lines of a picture of my cousin-in-law]
NMokXJxiPRPvNZto/J/DTEWeNVIlnU0LPQci4ahr8xlXUW3y2ieF+c+tmQ6jeeqvF/WfkKg9/bN5
i5PL6i+LdLBTjv0ybU4gUap2pvXAppD706b4Wp//2Q==
- And finally, terminate the attachment:
--=====================_100756562==_--

I'd build this step-by-step, thus:

<?php
$message = "Mime-Version: 1.0\nContent-Type: multipart/mixed;\nboundary=\"=====================_100756562==_\"\n";
$message .= "Here's the file you requested\n\n";
$message .= "--=====================_100756562==_\n";
$message .= $encodedFileFromSomewhereElse; . "\n"
$message .= "--=====================_100756562==_\n";
// Continue creating the message
// ...
?>

Example message, created by Eudora, snagged off my server as a raw message:

X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.0.1.0
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 10:28:32 -0400
To: joe@example.org
From: Joe Makowiec <makowiec@example.com>
Subject: Mime-encoded message
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="=====================_100756562==_"

--=====================_100756562==_
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed
Text content goes here

Joe

--=====================_100756562==_
Content-Type: image/jpeg; name="glynn.jpg";
x-mac-type="4A504547"; x-mac-creator="4A565752"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="glynn.jpg"

/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAgEBLAEsAAD/7QE0UGhvdG9zaG9wIDMuMAA4QklNA+0AAAAAABABLAAAAAEA
[snip]
NMokXJxiPRPvNZto/J/DTEWeNVIlnU0LPQci4ahr8xlXUW3y2ieF+c+tmQ6jeeqvF/WfkKg9/bN5
i5PL6i+LdLBTjv0ybU4gUap2pvXAppD706b4Wp//2Q==
--=====================_100756562==_--

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Report · Oct 09, 2006

That's arcane. 8)

PHPMailer - that's easy! 8)

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"Joe Makowiec" <makowiec@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
news:Xns98576D05C7A09makowiecatnycapdotrE@216.104.212.96...
> On 09 Oct 2006 in macromedia.dreamweaver.appdev, Murray *ACE* wrote:
>
>> I want to send an email with a file attachment.
>>
>> Is there an easy way to do this, or is it as arcane as I think it is?
>
> php.net knows all, tells all:
>
> Note: Email with attachments and special types of content (e.g.
> HTML) can be sent using this function. This is accomplished via
> MIME-encoding - for more information, see this Zend article or the
> PEAR Mime Classes.
>
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php
>
> Refers to:
>
> Zend article: http://www.zend.com/zend/spotlight/sendmimeemailpart1.php
> PEAR Mime classes: http://pear.php.net/package/Mail_Mime
>
> But the short version:
> - encode the attachment. This is normally done for you by your mail
> client; it's easy enough to find software to do it. You can even
> convince PHP to do it on the fly.
> - create the message as mime-encoded:
> Mime-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
> boundary="=====================_100756562==_"
> - Add your text
> - Add a boundary:
> --=====================_100756562==_
> - Add your mime-encoded content:
> Content-Type: image/jpeg; name="glynn.jpg";
> x-mac-type="4A504547"; x-mac-creator="4A565752"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="glynn.jpg"
>
> /9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAgEBLAEsAAD/7QE0UGhvdG9zaG9wIDMuMAA4QklNA+
> 0AAAAAABABLAAAAAEA
> [snip - a couple hundred lines of a picture of my cousin-in-law]
>
> NMokXJxiPRPvNZto/J/DTEWeNVIlnU0LPQci4ahr8xlXUW3y2ieF+c+tmQ6jeeqvF/WfkKg9/bN5
> i5PL6i+LdLBTjv0ybU4gUap2pvXAppD706b4Wp//2Q==
> - And finally, terminate the attachment:
> --=====================_100756562==_--
>
> I'd build this step-by-step, thus:
>
> <?php
> $message = "Mime-Version: 1.0\nContent-Type:
> multipart/mixed;\nboundary=\"=====================_100756562==_\"\n";
> $message .= "Here's the file you requested\n\n";
> $message .= "--=====================_100756562==_\n";
> $message .= $encodedFileFromSomewhereElse; . "\n"
> $message .= "--=====================_100756562==_\n";
> // Continue creating the message
> // ...
> ?>
>
> Example message, created by Eudora, snagged off my server as a raw
> message:
>
> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.0.1.0
> Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 10:28:32 -0400
> To: joe@example.org
> From: Joe Makowiec <makowiec@example.com>
> Subject: Mime-encoded message
> Mime-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
> boundary="=====================_100756562==_"
>
> --=====================_100756562==_
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed
> Text content goes here
>
>
> Joe
>
> --=====================_100756562==_
> Content-Type: image/jpeg; name="glynn.jpg";
> x-mac-type="4A504547"; x-mac-creator="4A565752"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="glynn.jpg"
>
> /9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAgEBLAEsAAD/7QE0UGhvdG9zaG9wIDMuMAA4QklNA+0AAAAAABABLAAAAAEA
> [snip]
> NMokXJxiPRPvNZto/J/DTEWeNVIlnU0LPQci4ahr8xlXUW3y2ieF+c+tmQ6jeeqvF/WfkKg9/bN5
> i5PL6i+LdLBTjv0ybU4gUap2pvXAppD706b4Wp//2Q==
> --=====================_100756562==_--
>
> --
> Joe Makowiec
> http://makowiec.net/
> Email: http://makowiec.net/email.php

Report · Oct 09, 2006

On 09 Oct 2006 in macromedia.dreamweaver.appdev, Murray *ACE* wrote:

> That's arcane. 8)
>
> PHPMailer - that's easy! 8)

Just took a look at it. Sure 'nuf.

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Report · Oct 09, 2006

On Mon, 9 Oct 2006 10:38:18 -0400, "Murray *ACE*"
<forums@HAHAgreat-web-sights.com> wrote:

>Thank you both. I was not aware of this nice class!

You might this extensive tutorial helpful, Murray.

http://www.phpfreaks.com/print.php?cmd=tutorial&tut_id=130
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