Image In Email

peterg012

Hi,

Could anybody be able to show me how to send an HTML email using the

mail

function, with an image in the body of the email.

Please help

thanks!! 🙂

devinemke

$to = 'peterg012@peterg012.com';
$subject = 'this is a test email with an image';

$body = '
<html>
<head>
<title>test</title>
</head>
<body>
<img src="http://www.google.com/intl/en/images/logo.gif">
</body>
</html>
';

$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\n" . 'Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1' . "\n" . 'from: peterg012@peterg012.com' . "\n";

mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers);

peterg012

Is there any way to insert the image in the body of the email, not linking to a URL?

SumitGupta

Hi,

Well there is a way to insert inline images.... instead of having links...

Not sure on how to do that, but basic idea is to base64 encode your image and attach to body of email. Than a reference is set within email to show that Image inline... I see that techinque in one of Jokes forwarded to me... not sure how it is implemented, but it can be ..

peterg012

Thanks, anybody know how to do the above mentioned??

XPertMailer

HTML Embedded Image howto:

<?php

set_time_limit(0);

// path to smtp.php from XPM2 package
require_once '/path/smtp.php';

$mail = new SMTP;
$mail->From('username@hostname.net', 'my name');
$mail->AddTo('client@destination.com', 'user name');
$mail->Html('<b>HTML Embedded Image:</b> <img src="photo.gif">');
// add image: image.gif and make sure if you write the correct path name to image
$mail->AttachFile('/path/image.gif', 'photo.gif', 'autodetect', 'inline');
$sent = $mail->Send('Hello World!');

echo $sent ? 'Success' : $mail->result;

?>