email attachments

Anon

I've got a attachment problem. I seem to get the attachment fine but say for instance it is a word document. Once I send it word can no longer open it. I thought it was corrupt but is identical to the original file I sent. So I tried to duplicate the problem. I opened the original in a text editor, did nothing and saved it. Now word can't open it either. It seems word,excel,etc doesn't like how the file is being handled by php.
I am simply opening it reading it doing the whole base64_code chunk_split method. In fact, I tried someone elses script as well and had the same problem. Any thought on that?

-Josh

Anon

Hello, can you please explain how to attach files to emails using the mail(), thanx!

Anon

Actually, I was required to use an SMTP mail server through a pipe but you can do it as well through mail() you just have to create the message body properly. You should be pretty familiar with the MIME types, lots of information out there. Create a content type of plain/text for your message as you would for just aregular email then you have to create a boundry between the two pieces and send an application/octet-stream content type encoded binary/base64. Then you can open you file read it into a variable and call chunk_split(base_64_encode($file)) for base64, just chunk split for binary. Add this to your message with the proper line breaks and you should be good to go. If you need me to direct you to more info about exactly what the emailer you're talking to is wanting let me know. It can get complex.
There is a library available at www.heyes-computing.net if you don't want to re-invent the wheel. It'll help you create your own if you want as well. I tried it an d the attchment comes through fine but MS Office doesn't seem to like it when PHP manipulates the files which is the subject of my previous message. You may run into the same issues with it. Good luck.