sending images in html email

[Anon]

Does anyone know if there is a way to embed images using this code below into a html email? I was hoping that when it read the file it could embed the image, but it appears i must do that for each image. Does anyone know how to do this? or this a better way to embed images into a html email? Thanks,

$to = "someone";

$subj = "test";

$userfile = "html.htm";

 $mail_boundary = md5(uniqid(time()));
  $mail_headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
  $mail_headers .= "Content-type: multipart/mixed;
                                  boundary=\"$mail_boundary\"\r\n\r\n";
  $mail_headers .= "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\r\n\r\n";

  $fp = fopen($userfile, "r");
  $file = fread($fp, filesize($userfile));
  $file = chunk_split(base64_encode($file));

  $new_mail_body = "--$mail_boundary\r\n";
  $new_mail_body .= "--$mail_boundary\r\n";


  $new_mail_body .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
  $new_mail_body .= "Content-transfer-encoding:base64\r\n\r\n";
  $new_mail_body .= $file . "\r\n\r\n";
  $new_mail_body .= "--$mail_boundary--";
  $mail_body = $new_mail_body;

mail($to,$subj,$mail_body,$mail_headers);

[jconner]

well, most people just keep the images on a remote server and place the URL tot he images in an img tag in the html formatted message.

[Anon]

It is possible.

What you have to do is quite(ish) simple. Base64-encode each image, give them their own bit in the message (as the code shown can do, I believe), and then all you have to do is in the HTML in the email message, change the SRC to one of the descriptors of the message part. (do some research on mhtml:
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2111.html)

I hope that helps. I made a visual basic server that could automatically encode entire web pages and send them to a user via email, so it is possible 🙂

Dave

[Anon]

I had seen that done in another class file but I was not sure how they did it. I understand what you are saying, thanks for the link.