Email attachment

[frankfokke]

Hi there,

I'm trying to build a php-routine that sends an email with an attachment. I seem to be missing something, because the email is sent without attachment, with all contents in the emailbody.

This is the email:

Bestelling 1108247068366
Bestelling voor Plaza33 - Besteld op 12.02.2005........
.....Opmerkingen:
melding.

This is the attachtment:
<!DOCTYPE LV_ELECTRONIC_ORDER> ==== ENCODED ORDER - BEGIN ==== OV=1<~>..........................
melding.
Informatie bij betaling:
Geen
==== ENCODED ORDER - END ====

and this is how I receive the mail:

MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=" ==Multipart_Boundary_xffbb398b14c6197b07ba8c18e8d3
a5bax"

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

-- ==Multipart_Boundary_xffbb398b14c6197b07ba8c18e8d3
a5bax
Content-Type:text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT

Bestelling 1108248155553
Bestelling voor Plaza33 - Besteld op 12.02.2005...............Opmerkingen:
melding.

-- ==Multipart_Boundary_xffbb398b14c6197b07ba8c18e8d3
a5bax
Content-Type: application/octet-stream;charset=US-ASCII name=order-1108248155553.lce
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=order-1108248155553.lce <!DOCTYPE LV_ELECTRONIC_ORDER> ==== ENCODED ORDER - BEGIN ==== OV=1<~>OSV=1<................melding.
Informatie bij betaling:
Geen
==== ENCODED ORDER - END ====

-- ==Multipart_Boundary_xffbb398b14c6197b07ba8c18e8d3
a5bax--

And finaly, this is the code I use:

<?PHP 
$from = $_REQUEST['From']; 
$to = $_REQUEST['To']; 
$subject = $_REQUEST['Subject']; 
$subjectmailclient = $_REQUEST['SubjectMailClient']; 
$message = $_REQUEST['Message']; 
$attachment = $_REQUEST['Attachment']; 
$orderid = $_REQUEST['OrderID']; 
$redirect = $_REQUEST['redirect']; 

$message1=$message; 

$semi_rand = md5(time()); 
$mime_boundary = "==Multipart_Boundary_x{$semi_rand}x"; 

$headers = "From: ".$to." <".$to.">\n"; 
$headers .= "\nMIME-Version: 1.0\n" 
. "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;\n" 
. " boundary=\"{$mime_boundary}\""; 

$email_message = "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n\n" 
. "--{$mime_boundary}\n" 
. "Content-Type:text/plain; charset=US-ASCII\n" 
. "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT\n\n" 
. $message1 . "\n\n"; 

$data = $attachment; 

$email_message .= "--{$mime_boundary}\n" 
. "Content-Type: application/octet-stream;" 
. " name=order-".$orderid.".lce\n" 
. "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT\n\n" 
. "Content-Disposition: attachment;" 
. " filename=order-".$orderid.".lce\n" 
. $data 
. "\n\n" ."--{$mime_boundary}--\n"; 


mail("$from", "$subject", 
"$email_message", 
"$headers"); 
?> 

Can anyone tell me what I am overlooking?
Thanks, Frank.

[wchris]

oh, i know your problem very well, because it took me a hole day to get the correct order of headers and messages...

here my running way:

$STR_boundary = uniqid(rand()) . "_boundary";

$STR_headers = "From: [email][e-mail][/email]\r\nReply-To: [email][e-mail][/email]\r\nX-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion() .  "\r\n";
$STR_headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$STR_headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;boundary=\"" . $STR_boundary . "\"\r\n";
$STR_headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\r\n";
$STR_headers .= "\r\n\r\n--" . $STR_boundary . "\r\n";
$STR_headers .= "Content-Type:text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n\r\n";
$STR_headers .= "TESTMESSAGE";

$STR_message .= "\r\n\r\n--" . $STR_boundary . "\r\n";
$STR_message .= "Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name=\"filename.pdf\"\r\n";
$STR_message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n\r\n\r\n";
$STR_message .= base64_encode($STR_buffer);
$STR_message .= "\r\n\r\n--" . $STR_boundary . "--";

mail ("[e-mail]", "Attachment", $STR_message, $STR_headers);

i know it is not the same example like yours, but you can change it for your case.

cu
chris

[frankfokke]

Hi Chris,

Thanks for your reply.

I've been studying it and now I have it working with this code (I've done lots of testing with inserting and removing the \r and \n):

$message1=$message; 
  $text=stripslashes($message); 
  $text=str_replace("\r\n","\n",$text); 

mail("$to", "$subjectmailclient", 
    "$text", 
    "From: ".$from." <".$from.">\n" 
    . "MIME-Version: 1.0\n" 
    . "Content-Type: text/plain;\n" 
    . "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n"); 

$mime_boundary = "<<<--==+X[".md5(time())."]"; 

$headers .= "From: ".$to." <".$to.">\n"; 

$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"; 
$headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;\n"; 
$headers .= " boundary=\"".$mime_boundary."\""; 

$message .= "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n"; 
$message .= "\n"; 
$message .= "--".$mime_boundary."\n"; 
$message .= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n"; 
$message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n"; 
$message .= "\n"; 
$message .= $message1; 
$message .= "--".$mime_boundary."\n"; 
$message .= "Content-Type: application/octet-stream;\n"; 
$message .= " name=\"order-".$orderid.".lce\"\n"; 
$message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n"; 
$message .= "Content-Disposition: attachment;\n"; 
$message .= " filename=\"order-".$orderid.".lce\"\n"; 
$message .= "\n"; 
$message .= $attachment; 
$message .= "\n"; 
$message .= "--".$mime_boundary."\n"; 


$ok = mail("$from", "$subject", $message, $headers); 

Cheers, Frank.