Mail attachment problems

[Legende_dk]

Hi.

I have some problems with attaching to emails.

I have tried an example from "CORE PHP PROGRAMMING" page 902, but when I attach a file, it shows up in the content of the mail as weird encoded data, not as an attachment to the mail.

How do I fix this ? I want "paperclip" attachment, and thought I would get that from the example.

HELP

[AstroTeg]

There's not enough info to determine the exact cause of your problem. So...

Is your content-type correct? (multipart/mixed; boundry="MIME_BOUNDRY" works well for me).

Have you viewed your email message's source once sent? As in, go into your email client and view the raw source code of your email. Send yourself an email with an attachment and make sure that works. If it does, then view that email's source. Compare it with the email you're generating.

The likely cause is:

• missing header(s)
• incorrect header(s)
• message body incorrectly composed. Here's my template I use for the message body:

--MIME_BOUNDRY
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

<!--$message$-->

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

<!--$attachment$-->

--MIME_BOUNDRY--

Replace <!--$message$--> with the email text message and <!--$attachment$--> with the MIME encode file attachment. <!--$contenttype$--> and <!--$filename$--> will need to be specified as well.

[Legende_dk]

Thank you for your response.

I am not the biggest PHP-hero, so I will just post the scipt from the book, that I have used.

<?php

function makeAttachment($attachment) {
//send content type
$headers = "Content-Type: " .$attachment["type"];

if(isset($attachment["name"])) {
	$headers .= "; name =\"{$attachment["name"]}\"";
}

$headers .= "\r\n".
	"Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n".
	"\r\n".
	chunk_split(base64_encode($attachment["content"])).
	"\r\n";

return $headers;

}

function mailAttachment($to, $from, $subject, $attachment) {
//add from header
$headers = "From: $from\r\n";

//specify MIME version 1.0
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";

//multiple parts require special treatment
if(count($attachment) > 1) {
	//multiple attachments require special handling
	$boundary = uniqid("COREPHP");

	$headers .= "Contant-Type: multipart/mixed".
		"; boundary = $boundary\r\n\r\n".
		"This is a MIME encoded message.\r\n\r\n".
		"--$boundary";

	foreach($attachment as $a) {
		$headers .= "\r\n".
			makeAttachment($a).
			"--$boundary";
	}

	$headers .= "--\r\n";
} else {
	$headers .= makeAttachment($attachment[0]);
}
mail($to, $subject, "", $headers);

}

//add text explaining message
$attach[] = array("content"=>"This is Listing 24-6", "type"=>"text/plain");

//add script to list of attachments
$fp = fopen("alien.jpg", "r");
$attach[] = array("name"=>basename("alien.jpg"), "content"=>fread($fp, filesize("alien.jpg")), "type"=>"application/octet-stream");
fclose($fp);

//send mail to legende
mailAttachment("jesper<at>legende.dk", "test<at>legende.dk", "Listing 24-6", $attach);

print("Mail sent!<br>\n");
?>

I hope you can tell me what's wrong. I would be ever so grateful 🙂

[AstroTeg]

I don't see anything that points to a problem. Although if you use the PHP bbcode tags, the code would be a ton easier to read.

I don't have time to give this code a whirl. Basically, I'd be troubleshooting just like you. View the source of a working email and then the source of a non-working (PHP generated) email. Take a look at where the differences are. Once you find them, then refer back to where your code works its magic in that spot and tweak as needed.

[Legende_dk]

I found this class phpmailer at sourceforge, and it works totally fine. So I will just use that.

-But thanks for your help 🙂

[phpjaco]

hello im using something similiar to your code but cant seem to get my image to get sent with the email, i keep getting a blank img, and errors indicating that there is no such file
in my code:

"No such file or directory in domainname" (but im using a attachment?)

  $to = "[e-mail]";

 $re = "Mime test";

 // open the file

 $msg .= $att_name."<br>";

 $msg .= $att_size."<br>";

 $msg .= $att_type."<br>";

 $fp = fopen($att_name,"r");

  $file = fread($fp,$att_size);

// emcode the data for safe transmet and insert \r\n every 76 characters

$file = chunk_split(base64_encode($file));

  $num = md5(time());

// start secondary boundary here
$hdr .= "--$num\r\n";
$hdr .= "Content-Type:$att_type;";
$hdr .= "name=\"$att_name\"\r\n";
$hdr .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n";
$hdr .= "Content-Disposition: attachment;";
$hdr .= "filename=\"$att_name\"\r\n\n";
$hdr .= "$file\r\n";
$hdr .= "--$num--";

// send the mail
if (mail($to,$re,"",$hdr)) {
$msg .= "success";
} else $msg .= "failure<br>$hdr";

// close the file
fclose($file);

what am i doing wrong?

[Legende_dk]

If you are asking me, I can't help you - I couldn't get it to work myself, remember 🙂 But I can encourage you to do like me and use the mailer-class provided by sourceforge. It works like a charm, and is easy to use.