attaching an image in a php newsletter.

4zen

Hello,

This is my first post here so cheers everyone... I am pretty new to PHP so please forgive me if I get some of the lingo wrong or dont make sense 🙂 🙂

Im working on a php code I found online. Im basically trying to send html emails (newsletters in a sense) to a group of signed up users. I have everything working but I want to be able to send images by PHP in the code below that creates the email and sends it out. Theres an html page that I fill out called mail_all.htm and it posts the info to mail_all.php (action="mail_all2.php")

So I need help sending/attaching an image with the code below.

THanks for the help!!!

HTML: B]

Insert in image into body area above:
<br><input type="file" name="e_pic" size="20">

php:

  while ($sql = mysql_fetch_object($result)) 
    {
        $e_user = $sql -> u_name;
        $e_addr  = $sql -> u_email;
		$send_it = $sql -> u_special;
        if ($send_it == "special")

{
 $subject =  $_POST[e_subject];


	 $msg = "
   <HTML>
 <HEAD>
 <TITLE>My Message</TITLE>
 </HEAD>
 <BODY text='#333333' style='font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif ' >
 <div align='center'>
 <table width='700' border='1' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' bordercolor='#000000'>
  <tr>
    <td>

<table width='700'  cellspacing='0' cellpadding='10' align='center' bordercolor='#333333' >
  <tr bgcolor='#3399FF'>
    <td width='540' valign='middle' bgcolor='#CCCCCC'><h2 align='left'>$_POST[e_header]</h2></td>
    <td width='138' valign='middle' bgcolor='#CCCCCC'><font color='#333333' size='-2'>$_POST[e_date]</font></td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor='#3399FF'>
    <td colspan='2' bgcolor='#CCCCCC'>
<h4 align='left'>$_POST[e_headline]</h4>
	</td>
  </tr>
    <tr >
    <td colspan='2'>
	</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td colspan='2'><div align='left' style='padding: 10px '>$_POST[[B]e_pic[/B]]</div>$_POST[e_message]  </td>
  </tr>
    <tr>
    <td colspan='2'>
	<hr size='2' noshade color='#F2F2F2'>
<font color='#999999' size='-2'>$_POST[e_footer]</font></td>
  </tr>
</table>
</td>
  </tr>
</table>
</div>
 </BODY>
 </HTML>
 ";
		$headers = "From: No Reply <$adminemail>\nContent-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1";

    mail($e_addr, "$subject", "$msg","$headers");
    echo "$e_user at email $e_addr<br>  ";

}  
  }

?>
[code=php]

richie

The easiest way would probably to just add an IMG tag in the body of the email. Then make the SRC pull from your server.

E.g.

4zen

umm yea that will for sure work. That I was able to do but Anyone know how (with code I wrote early in thread) to upload an image first through a browse form and than email it out?

Anyone have any ideas or links to help out?

tx!!

Kudose

Yeah...

Make an upload form.
Upload the image.
Set the file name to a variable.
Use richie's method setting the image name to the variable contents.

It can be done in one script seemlessly.

richie

http://us3.php.net/mail

jara06

The <img> source from a remote location would be a rather bad idea i think.
Lots of ISP's and mailprogram vendors have this ability closed by default today due to the high abuse of 'active emails'..
Heck, even hotmails shut this down by default 🙂

richie

"The <img> source from a remote location would be a rather bad idea i think.
Lots of ISP's and mailprogram vendors have this ability closed by default today due to the high abuse of 'active emails'..
Heck, even hotmails shut this down by default "

I receive newsletters in HTML format, and the images are displayed just fine in hotmail. The images are shown using <img> tags.

Is there a secret to it that I don't know?

jara06

maybe its due to my levels of security. I personally dont want spammers to know if my account is active by getting an image off a server.

Well, just my 2c 🙂

wempy

This site gives a good primer on mime html emails

http://www.dsv.su.se/~jpalme/ietf/mhtml.html

basically, you reference a graphic in the html in the usual way by using <img> tags, though the tag references another part of the mime encoded mail where the graphic is stored (usually using base64 encoding). Each block is given a content id (CID🙂 and this is what the <img> tag src attribute references.