mysql binary data as email attachment

[phpr0ck5]

I need help, I can upload and store data into a mysql database. I can display it fine on an html rendered page, but I can not pull an image out of the database and send as an attachment in my email script. Here is the code:

           while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
                 {
                  $file = $row['img'];
                  $type = $row['img_type'];
                  $file_name = $row['img_name'];
                  $file_id = $row['img_id'];
                 }

function sendmsg($to, $subject, $text, $cc, $from, $file, $type, $file_name); {

    $content = stripslashes(fread(fopen($file,"r"),filesize($file))); 
    $content = chunk_split(base64_encode($content)); 
    $uid = strtoupper(md5(uniqid(time()))); 


    $to = stripslashes($to);
    $from = stripslashes($from);
    $from2 = stripslashes($from2);
    $cc = stripslashes($cc);
    $subject = stripslashes($subject); 
    $text = stripslashes($text); 


    $header = "From: $from\nReply-To: $from\n"; 
    $header .= "Return-Path: [email][e-mail][/email]\n";
    $header .= "Return-Receipt-To: [email][e-mail][/email]\n";
    $header .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"; 
    $header .= "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=$uid\n"; 
    $header .= "--$uid\n"; 
    $header .= "Content-Type: text/plain\n"; 
    $header .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bnoit\n\n";
    $header .= "$text\n"; 
    $header .= "\n"; 
    $header .= "\n"; 
    $header .= "--$uid\n"; 
    $header .= "Content-Type: $type; name=\"$file_name\"\n"; 
    $header .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n"; 
    $header .= "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$file_name\"\n\n"; 
    $header .= "$content\n"; 
    $header .= "--$uid--"; 
    mail($to, $subject, "$text", $header); 

    return true; 

}

sendmsg($to, $subject, $text, $cc, $from, $file, $file_type, $file_name);

I get this error:
Warning: fopen(FWS.É): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in

Thanks!!!