[Resolved] Adding an attachment without creating a file?

Neumy

I've taken a look through search but did not find exactly what I'm looking for. Here is my problem:

I have creating a result report based on forms. In order to display this information on the screen for the cllient, I created a variable called $report which holds a simple html script. When the user wants to see their report, the $report is generated with their information from the database in a nice graphical display. (I want to one day use PDF but some of my clients are not technical and will not have Adobe Acrobat)

I want to add a feature allowing my clients to e-mail the report to themselves (or whoever they wish). using mail() I can nicely email and add attachments but I have run into a problem.

I have discovered a way that I can fopen(), fwrite(), and ulink() my $report to a file and attach this to my e-mail. This works great; however, I want to avoid creating a file. I do not want to deal with security issues when it comes to writing files to my server, there must be a way to add an attachment without creating the file first.

If anyone can help me - I would greatly appreciate it.

AstroTeg

I was curious and then remembered I've got a web app that I use to mass email web logs. I found the guts of this function out on the 'net:

function BuildAttachment($file)
{
	set_magic_quotes_runtime(0);

$fd = fopen($file, "rb");
$FileContent = fread($fd, filesize($file));
fclose($fd);

$FileContent = chunk_split(base64_encode($FileContent));
$attachment = $FileContent;
$attachment .="\n\n";

set_magic_quotes_runtime(get_magic_quotes_gpc());

return $attachment;
}  // end function BuildAttachment($filename)

For what you need, I think it'll work something like this:

function BuildAttachment($string)
{
	set_magic_quotes_runtime(0);

$FileContent = chunk_split(base64_encode($string));
$attachment = $FileContent;
$attachment .="\n\n";

set_magic_quotes_runtime(get_magic_quotes_gpc());

return $attachment;
}  // end function BuildAttachment($string)

This 2nd function ditches the file handling and excepts a string and mime encodes it.

The attachment string then gets included here:

--MIME_BOUNDRY
Content-Type: <!--$contenttype$-->; name="<!--$filename$-->"
Content-disposition: attachment
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

<!--$attachment$-->

--MIME_BOUNDRY--

(Swap out my tokens for the actual data.)

This is all assuming you're working with a mime encoded message.

Neumy

Perfect!

This works beautifully!

Thank you very much!