[Resolved] Multiple E-Mail Attachments

sysera

Hey guys,
I've got this code together to send emails with a predetermined file attachment. Going to use it to send out resumes, etc, random stuff. I'd like to be able to add addtional attachments to the e-mail, but I'm not sure about the best way to do it. Can anyone give me an example of adding additional attachments? Thanks 🙂

(I know it's a bit a mess at top with the variables, I haven't yet had a chance to clean it up. Just got it working for now.)

<?php
$from="myaddress@mywebsite.com";
$to=$email;
$attachment="file1.doc";
$message=stripslashes($message);
$message = nl2br($message);
        $fileatt = $attachment; // Path to the file
        $fileatt_type = "application/octet-stream"; // File Type
    $start=     strrpos($attachment, '/') == -1 ? strrpos($attachment, '//') : strrpos($attachment, '/');
        $fileatt_name = $attachment; // Filename that will be used for the file as the  attachment

    $email_from = $from; // Who the email is from
    $email_subject =  $subject; // The Subject of the email
    $email_txt = $text;

    $email_to = $to; // Who the email is to

    $headers = "From: ".$email_from;

    $file = fopen($fileatt,'rb');
    $data = fread($file,filesize($fileatt));
    fclose($file);
    $msg_txt="\n\n$message";

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

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

    $email_txt .= $msg_txt;

    $email_message .= "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n\n" .
            "--{$mime_boundary}\n" .
            "Content-Type:text/html; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n" .
           "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n" .
    $email_txt . "\n\n";

    $data = chunk_split(base64_encode($data));

    $email_message .= "--{$mime_boundary}\n" .
              "Content-Type: {$fileatt_type};\n" .
              " name=\"{$fileatt_name}\"\n" .
              //"Content-Disposition: attachment;\n" .
              //" filename=\"{$fileatt_name}\"\n" .
              "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n\n" .
             $data . "\n\n" .
              "--{$mime_boundary}--\n";


    $ok = @mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);

    $email_subject="Copy of email " . $email_subject . "Sent to $email_to";

    $ok2 = @mail($email_from, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);

    if($ok) {
    } else {
            die("Sorry but the email could not be sent. Please go back and try again!");
    }

echo "<p><center><html><font face=\"arial\">Your e-mail has been sent!<br><br>";
echo "<html><font face=\"arial\">Your message:<br>";
echo "subject: $subject <br>";echo "message: $text <br><br>";
echo "<i>Thanks!<br>- Robert</i></font></html></p></center><br><br>";
?>

sysera

Quick bump. Thanks to anyone who can offer a hand.

Weedpacket

Check out the very top thread in this forum.

sysera

Hey weedpacket,
I've read through that, which didn't seem to help me much. The whole e-mail thing is a little bit confusing. I did get it this far though.. I'm receiving the e-mail with both attachments correctly, the only thing missing is the plaintext body that goes along with it. Can you (or anyone) give me a clue as to what I'm missing? I'm sure it's something simple, I just can't seem to put my finger on it.

code:

<?php

$from="me@mydomain.com";
$message=stripslashes($message);
$message=nl2br($message);
$message_plain=$message;

$headers = "From: $from" . "\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: $from" . "\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/related; type=\"multipart/alternative\"; boundary=\"----=MIME_BOUNDRY_main_message\"\n";
$headers .= "X-Sender: $from" . $from . "\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP4\n";
$headers .= "X-Priority: 3\n"; //1 = Urgent, 3 = Normal
$headers .= "Return-Path: " . $from . "\n";
$headers .= "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n";

$headers .= "------=MIME_BOUNDRY_main_message \n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=\"----=MIME_BOUNDRY_message_parts\"\n";

$attachment1="file1.doc";
$fp1= fopen($attachment1, "rb");
$data1 = fread($fp1, filesize($attachment1));
$data1 = chunk_split(base64_encode($data1));
fclose($fp1);

$attachment2="file2.doc";
$fp2= fopen($attachment2, "rb");
$data2 = fread($fp2, filesize($attachment2));
$data2 = chunk_split(base64_encode($data2));
fclose($fp2);

$message  = "------=MIME_BOUNDRY_message_parts\n";
$message .= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n";
$message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable\n";
$message .= "\n";
$message .= "$message_plain\n";
$message .= "\n";
$message .= "------=MIME_BOUNDRY_message_parts--\n";
$message .= "\n";

//Add attachment1

$message .= "------=MIME_BOUNDRY_main_message\n";
$message .= "Content-Type: application/octet-stream;\n\tname=\"" . $attachment1 . "\"\n";
$message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n";
$message .= "Content-Disposition: attachment;\n\tfilename=\"" . $attachment1 . "\"\n\n";
$message .= $data1; //The base64 encoded message
$message .= "\n";

//Add attachment2

$message .= "------=MIME_BOUNDRY_main_message\n";
$message .= "Content-Type: application/octet-stream;\n\tname=\"" . $attachment2 . "\"\n";
$message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n";
$message .= "Content-Disposition: attachment;\n\tfilename=\"" . $attachment2 . "\"\n\n";
$message .= $data2; //The base64 encoded message
$message .= "\n\n";

$message .= "------=MIME_BOUNDRY_main_message--\n";

$ok1 = @mail($email, $subject, $message, $headers);

$subject="Copy of email " . $subject . " Sent to $email";

//$ok2 = @mail($from, $subject, $message, $headers);

if($ok1) {
        } else {
die("Sorry but the email could not be sent. Please go back and try again!");
}

echo "<p><center><html><font face=\"arial\">Your e-mail has been sent!<br><br>";
echo "<html><font face=\"arial\">Your message:<br>";
echo "subject: $subject <br>";echo "message: $message_plain <br><br>";
echo "<i>Thanks!<br></i></font></html></p></center><br><br>";
?>

Weedpacket

Well, the main point was that since it is such a hassle, then unless you want to work out how to do this for your own education you'd be better off using an existing class such as the one cited.

Here's one debugging tip: look at the email source code, headers, separators and all, and see if that gives you any hints about what is awry (I've added the relevant RFCs to that post - don't know why I didn't earlier).

sysera

Originally posted by Weedpacket
Well, the main point was that since it is such a hassle, then unless you want to work out how to do this for your own education you'd be better off using an existing class such as the one cited.

Well, the main point I asked the question with my code (yes, many pieces stolen, of course) was because I wanted to learn how to do it myself. I was hoping somebody would help me learn by example.

While I understand that you do get a lot of people unwilling to put the effort in, I certainly am not one of them.

I will continue to hack away at this. Thanks for the tip.

sysera

Solved.

<?php

$from="me@me.com";
$message=stripslashes($message);

//Suppose this would be for HTML mail
//$message=nl2br($message);

$message_plain=$message;

$headers = "From: $from" . "\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: $from" . "\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/related; type=\"multipart/alternative\"; boundary=\"----=MIME_BOUNDRY_main_message\"\n";
$headers .= "X-Sender: $from" . $from . "\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP4\n";
$headers .= "X-Priority: 3\n"; //1 = Urgent, 3 = Normal
$headers .= "Return-Path: " . $from . "\n";
$headers .= "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n";

$headers .= "------=MIME_BOUNDRY_main_message \n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=\"----=MIME_BOUNDRY_message_parts\"\n";

$attachment1="file1.doc";
$fp1= fopen($attachment1, "rb");
$data1 = fread($fp1, filesize($attachment1));
$data1 = chunk_split(base64_encode($data1));
fclose($fp1);

$attachment2="file2.doc";
$fp2= fopen($attachment2, "rb");
$data2 = fread($fp2, filesize($attachment2));
$data2 = chunk_split(base64_encode($data2));
fclose($fp2);

$message  = "------=MIME_BOUNDRY_message_parts\n";
$message .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n";
$message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable\n";
$message .= "\n";
$message .= "------=MIME_BOUNDRY_main_message\n";
$message .= "$message_plain\n";
$message .= "\n";

//Add attachment1

$message .= "------=MIME_BOUNDRY_main_message\n";
$message .= "Content-Type: application/octet-stream;\n\tname=\"" . $attachment1 . "\"\n";
$message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n";
$message .= "Content-Disposition: attachment;\n\tfilename=\"" . $attachment1 . "\"\n\n";
$message .= $data1; //The base64 encoded message
$message .= "\n";

//Add attachment2

$message .= "------=MIME_BOUNDRY_main_message\n";
$message .= "Content-Type: application/octet-stream;\n\tname=\"" . $attachment2 . "\"\n";
$message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n";
$message .= "Content-Disposition: attachment;\n\tfilename=\"" . $attachment2 . "\"\n\n";
$message .= $data2; //The base64 encoded message
$message .= "\n\n";

$message .= "------=MIME_BOUNDRY_main_message--\n";

$ok1 = @mail($email, $subject, $message, $headers);

$subject="Copy of email " . $subject . " Sent to $email";

$ok2 = @mail($from, $subject, $message, $headers);

if($ok1) {
        } else {
die("Sorry but the email could not be sent. Please go back and try again!");
}

echo "<p><center><html><font face=\"arial\">Your e-mail has been sent!<br><br>";
echo "<html><font face=\"arial\">Your message:<br>";
echo "subject: $subject <br>";echo "message: $message_plain <br><br>";
echo "<i>Thanks!<br></i></font></html></p></center><br><br>";
?>

Weedpacket

Originally posted by sysera
While I understand that you do get a lot of people unwilling to put the effort in, I certainly am not one of them.

Oh, I certainly didn't intend to imply otherwise - your first post showed that. That's why I pointed out the existing material: if you were not doing this because you wanted to learn for yourself, but instead just wanted to get this thing done and out of the way so you could get on to something more interesting, then you would be better off using existing veteran code.

As you've rightly said though, that's no substitute for learning how to do it yourself.

sysera

Originally posted by Weedpacket
Oh, I certainly didn't intend to imply otherwise - your first post showed that. That's why I pointed out the existing material: if you were not doing this because you wanted to learn for yourself, but instead just wanted to get this thing done and out of the way so you could get on to something more interesting, then you would be better off using existing veteran code.

As you've rightly said though, that's no substitute for learning how to do it yourself.

It's all good Weedpacket. I know what you meant. 🙂 I do however prefer to work through everything at least once on my own, then I can refer to my own code library in the future. I feel much more secure doing that than using somebody elses code. 😉