PHP email

qwertzpoi

Hello there, I have created a form for sending emails. It is able to send email with attachment but problem is when I don't append attachment the message won't be encoded in UTF-8. When I send the email WITH attachment everything works fine.
Form:

<form action="mail.php" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<table border="0" align="middle" background-image: url(malamut.png);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: bottom;">
<tr><td>To: </td><td colspan="2"><input type="text" name="to" size="64" /></td></tr>
<tr><td>From: </td><td colspan="2"><input type="text" name="from" size="64" /></td></tr>
<tr><td>Subject: </td><td colspan="2"><input type="text" name="subject" size="64" /></td></tr>
<tr><td>Message: </td><td colspan="2"><textarea cols="50" rows="20" name="message" >Message...</textarea></td></tr>
<tr><td>Attachment: </td><td colspan="2"><input type="file" name="fileatt" size="50" /></td></tr>
<tr><tr><td><td align="center"><input type="submit" value="Send" />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<input type="reset" value="Reset" /></td></tr>
</table>

Php code:

<?php
// Read POST request params into global vars
$to      = $_POST['to'];
$from    = $_POST['from'];
$subject = $_POST['subject'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
$subject = "=?utf-8?B?" . base64_encode($subject) . "?=";

// Obtain file upload vars
$fileatt      = $_FILES['fileatt']['tmp_name'];
$fileatt_type = $_FILES['fileatt']['type'];
$fileatt_name = $_FILES['fileatt']['name'];
$fileatt_name = "=?utf-8?B?" . base64_encode($fileatt_name) . "?=";

$headers = "Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\r\n";
$headers = "From: $from";

if (is_uploaded_file($fileatt)) {
  // Read the file to be attached ('rb' = read binary)
  $file = fopen($fileatt,'rb');
  $data = fread($file,filesize($fileatt));
  fclose($file);

  // Generate a boundary string
  $semi_rand = md5(time());
  $mime_boundary = "==Multipart_Boundary_x{$semi_rand}x";

  // Add the headers for a file attachment
  $headers .= "\nMIME-Version: 1.0\n" .
              "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;\n" .
              " boundary=\"{$mime_boundary}\"";

  // Add a multipart boundary above the plain message
  $message = "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n\n" .
             "--{$mime_boundary}\n" .
             "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"UTF-8\"\n" .
             "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n\n" .
             $message . "\n\n";

  // Base64 encode the file data
  $data = chunk_split(base64_encode($data));

  // Add file attachment to the message
  $message .= "--{$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";
}

// Send the message
$ok = @mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
if ($ok) {
  echo "Email was successfully sent!";
} else {
  echo "Error occured while sending email!";
}
?>

johanafm

Use php tags for php code

# From your code
$headers = "Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\r\n";
$headers = "From: $from";

# add this to see what $headers is at this point
echo $headers;

qwertzpoi

johanafm;10963793 wrote:

Use php tags for php code

# From your code
$headers = "Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\r\n";
$headers = "From: $from";

# add this to see what $headers is at this point
echo $headers;

Echo only prints "From" header. I think I found the problem but I don't know how to solve it. I forgot that I set it in "if" but I can't seem to find working way how to set it outside for example in else. I am not very skilled so I would appreciate if you could maybe point me how to do the else part. I tried it and failed because email arrived with Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8",Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit as a part of the message. Thanks

NogDog

Use ".=" to append to a variable. "=" will overwrite the original value with the new one.

qwertzpoi

NogDog;10963818 wrote:
Use ".=" to append to a variable. "=" will overwrite the original value with the new one.

Thanks you I have finally solved it. It was like so:

if (is_uploaded_file($fileatt)) {
  // Read the file to be attached ('rb' = read binary)
  $file = fopen($fileatt,'rb');
  $data = fread($file,filesize($fileatt));
  fclose($file);

  // Generate a boundary string
  $semi_rand = md5(time());
  $mime_boundary = "==Multipart_Boundary_x{$semi_rand}x";

  // Add the headers for a file attachment
  $headers .= "\nMIME-Version: 1.0\n" .
              "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;\n" .
              " boundary=\"{$mime_boundary}\"";

  // Add a multipart boundary above the plain message
  $message = "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n\n" .
             "--{$mime_boundary}\n" .
             "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"UTF-8\"\n" .
             "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n\n" .
             $message . "\n\n";

  // Base64 encode the file data
  $data = chunk_split(base64_encode($data));

  // Add file attachment to the message
  $message .= "--{$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";
} else {
  $headers = "Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\r\n" .
  $headers = "From: $from";
}

mrjoeblack

Hi, I'm interested in this form your making here .... are you saying this is the complete working code now????? or please correct it if not, thanks ...

<form action="mail.php" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<table border="0" align="middle" background-image: url(malamut.png);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: bottom;">
<tr><td>To: </td><td colspan="2"><input type="text" name="to" size="64" /></td></tr>
<tr><td>From: </td><td colspan="2"><input type="text" name="from" size="64" /></td></tr>
<tr><td>Subject: </td><td colspan="2"><input type="text" name="subject" size="64" /></td></tr>
<tr><td>Message: </td><td colspan="2"><textarea cols="50" rows="20" name="message" >Message...</textarea></td></tr>
<tr><td>Attachment: </td><td colspan="2"><input type="file" name="fileatt" size="50" /></td></tr>
<tr><tr><td><td align="center"><input type="submit" value="Send" />    
    <input type="reset" value="Reset" /></td></tr>
</table>

<?php
// Read POST request params into global vars
$to = $POST['to'];
$from = $POST['from'];
$subject = $POST['subject'];
$message = $POST['message'];
$subject = "=?utf-8?B?" . base64_encode($subject) . "?=";

// Obtain file upload vars
$fileatt = $FILES['fileatt']['tmp_name'];
$fileatt_type = $FILES['fileatt']['type'];
$fileatt_name = $_FILES['fileatt']['name'];
$fileatt_name = "=?utf-8?B?" . base64_encode($fileatt_name) . "?=";

$headers = "Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\r\n";
$headers = "From: $from";

if (is_uploaded_file($fileatt)) {
// Read the file to be attached ('rb' = read binary)
$file = fopen($fileatt,'rb');
$data = fread($file,filesize($fileatt));
fclose($file);

// Generate a boundary string
$semi_rand = md5(time());
$mime_boundary = "==Multipart_Boundary_x{$semi_rand}x";

// Add the headers for a file attachment
$headers .= "\nMIME-Version: 1.0\n" .
"Content-Type: multipart/mixed;\n" .
" boundary=\"{$mime_boundary}\"";

// Add a multipart boundary above the plain message
$message = "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n\n" .
"--{$mime_boundary}\n" .
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"UTF-8\"\n" .
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n\n" .
$message . "\n\n";

// Base64 encode the file data
$data = chunk_split(base64_encode($data));

// Add file attachment to the message
$message .= "--{$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";
} else {
$headers = "Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\r\n" .
$headers = "From: $from";
}

mrjoeblack

hi can you confirm your code was completed successfully as i posted it above, I dont see where it sends it to or do you still put on the sending ending?