Email attachments (Im confused)

[EricTRocks]

Ok, heres my script:

if(isset($submit))
{

$ServiceZip = trim($ServiceZip);
$zip_count = strlen($ServiceZip);
$zip_check = substr($ServiceZip, -5, 1);
if($zip_check > '5' && $zip_check != '-' || ($zip_count < '5')):
{
print('Sorry, we need a 5 digit zip code.');
} 
else:
{
$varwritefile = "$AgentCompany|$AgentName|$PartnerContact|$AgentNumber|$AgentEmail|$ServiceBusName|$ServiceStreet|$ServiceCity|$ServiceState|$ServiceZip|$ServiceCompPhone|$ServiceDSLNumber|$ServiceLocalPhone|$ServiceCompLAN|$ServiceStaticNum|$ServiceBusType|$ServiceOtherType|$ServiceWebMail";
$busfile = "prequal/$ServiceBusName.txt";
$fileopen = fopen ($busfile, "w+");
fwrite ($fileopen, "$varwritefile");
fclose($fileopen);
mail("[e-mail],[e-mail]",$msgsub,"$Message", $header);
print("Thanks");

}
endif;
}
else
{
?>

now, in the mail function, what do i have to put in order to attach an email?? I've seen things with headers however, they are rather confusing. I've seen the article that everyone points to (not sure the address) but it doesn't help me and confuses me because i have no idea what each part means. Anyway, what I want to do is create a script that can attach a file (or more than one) to the message being sent with the mail function. The way I want to do this is by using check boxes. Any help is appreciated.

Eric T>

[AstroTeg]

Have they been sending you here?

You need to use MIME encoding to make file attachments work.

If your more specific with where your stuck at, we can help out...

[EricTRocks]

Ok,

I understand that in order to attach files I need to put certain elements into my headers. Lets start there. In my provided code above, where would I put this info???

Secondly, to simply attach a file, i just need to use the fread() function and dump that into a variable and put that variable in part of the header????

Thanks
eric

[AstroTeg]

You'll actually need to do mime encoding on the file. A chunk of stuff will go into the header to specify to the email client that there's MIME encoding. Then the body actually contains a MIME encoded parts. Check out that article because I think it includes instructions on how to read a file and encode it and assemble it all into an email...