[RESOLVED] problem with using boundaries for an inline image in mail

[steamPunk]

Hi

I'm trying to use boundaries to be able to embed an image in the body of a mail but it always gets sent as an attached file

here's the code

<?PHP 	 
$to = 	'[e-mail]';
$subject = 	'PHP Mail Attachment Test';
$bound_text = 	"some text for the boundary";
$bound = 	"--".$bound_text."\r\n";
$bound_last = 	"--".$bound_text."--\r\n";

$headers = 	"From: [e-mail]\r\n";
$headers .= 	"MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"
  	."Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"$bound_text\"";

$message .= 	"If you can see this MIME than your client doesn't accept MIME types!\r\n"
  	.$bound;

$message .= 	"Content-Type: text/html; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\r\n"
  	."Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\r\n\r\n"
  	."voici un mail avec une image dans le corps du texte\r\n"
  	.$bound;

$file = 	file_get_contents("images/new-index-panier.jpg");

$message .= 	"Content-Type: image/jpg; name=\"new-index-panier.jpg\"\r\n"
  	."Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n"
  	."Content-disposition: inline; name=\"new-index-panier.jpg\"\r\n"
  	."\r\n"
  	.chunk_split(base64_encode($file))
  	.$bound_last;

#echo $message."<br /><br />"; 

if(mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers))
{
     echo 'MAIL SENT';
} else {
     echo 'MAIL FAILED';
}

?>

can anyone see what I need to do ?

thanks

[bradgrafelman]

Any reason why you're trying to do this the hard way? Why not use an existing 3rd party class/script (such as PEAR::Mail, PHPMailer, XPertMailer, ...) instead?

[steamPunk]

well ... I don't have any experience of any of those 3rd party scripts and I need it to be integrated into quite a complex mail-out system - I thought it was going to be quite simple but it's turned out be a headache.

If you think it would be quite straightforward to replace the mail() calls I've been using up to now with one of those that you mentioned, which one would you recommend ?

thanks

[steamPunk]

ok so I went with PHPmailer - though I had to use the PHP4 version cos the site is still on a 4.9.9 hosting!!!!!

for info, this is the code I used to send a mail with an inline image

<?PHP 	 
$to = 	'[e-mail]';
$subject = 	'PHP inline image test';
$from = '[e-mail]';
$message = "Hi! \n\n This is my first e-mail sent through PHPMailer.";
$from_name = "John Smith";
$image_name = "myLovelyImage.jpg";
$image_path = "images/";
$image_id = "myimg";


include_once('PHPMailer204/class.phpmailer.php');

$mail             = new PHPMailer(); // defaults to using php "mail()"

$mail->From       = $from;
$mail->FromName   = $from_name;
$mail->Subject    = $subject;
#$mail->AltBody    = "To view the message, please use an HTML compatible email viewer!"; // optional, comment out and test
$mail->MsgHTML($message);
$mail->AddAddress($to);

$mail->IsHTML(true);
$mail->AddEmbeddedImage($image_path.$image_name, $image_id, $image_name); // embed file, and later link to it using identfier myimg
$mail->Body = "<h1>Test image in a mail</h1>

<p>This text should be before the image<br /> <img src=\"cid:".$image_id."\" /></p>
<p>This text should be after the image</p>";

if(!$mail->Send()) {
  echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo . " ".date("H : i");
} else {
  echo "Message sent! ".date("H : i");
}

?>

[steamPunk]

oh yes - thanks to bradgrafelman for pointing me towards PHPmailer !