Sending email w/ attachments

Hey all,

Trying to send emails with attachments, first try at this. And
am trying to adapt sample code I found here:

http://www.webcheatsheet.com/PHP/send_email_text_html_attach ment.php

Trying this:

($data contains the contents of the file; I've verified this)

$hash = md5(date('r', time()));
$attachment = chunk_split(base64_encode($data));
$body_attachment = "--PHP-mixed-$hash--\n" .
"Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name=\"$filename\"\r\n" .
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n" .
"Content-Disposition: attachment\n".
$attachment . "\n" .
"--PHP-mixed-$hash--\n";

I then append $attachment this to the end of the email body
and send it on. I've verified it is reading the file properly,
in this test case it is a place text file. But I've tried a
PDF and that did not work as well.

What happens is the email comes through and shows an
attachment paper clip icon in Thunderbird, but when the email
is clicked on the icon disappears and the email is empty, even
the body is not there and no attachment either.

A final question I have is does the content-type value need to
change for text files, Word Docs, PDFs, Excel files, etc, or
is there one type that can handle any file type?

Any help would be great. I'm rather stuck and floundering here.

Thanks,
Skip

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Re: Sending email w/ attachments

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Skip Evans wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Trying to send emails with attachments, first try at this. And am trying =
to
> adapt sample code I found here:
>
> http://www.webcheatsheet.com/PHP/send_email_text_html_attach ment.php
>
> Trying this:
>
> ($data contains the contents of the file; I've verified this)
>
> $hash =3D md5(date('r', time()));
> $attachment =3D chunk_split(base64_encode($data));
> $body_attachment =3D "--PHP-mixed-$hash--\n" .
> "Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name=3D\"$filename\"\r\n" .
> "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n" .
> "Content-Disposition: attachment\n".
> $attachment . "\n" .
> "--PHP-mixed-$hash--\n";
>
> I then append $attachment this to the end of the email body and send it o=
n.
> I've verified it is reading the file properly, in this test case it is a
> place text file. But I've tried a PDF and that did not work as well.
>
> What happens is the email comes through and shows an attachment paper cli=
p
> icon in Thunderbird, but when the email is clicked on the icon disappears
> and the email is empty, even the body is not there and no attachment eith=
er.
>
> A final question I have is does the content-type value need to change for
> text files, Word Docs, PDFs, Excel files, etc, or is there one type that =
can
> handle any file type?
>
> Any help would be great. I'm rather stuck and floundering here.
>
> Thanks,
> Skip
>
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> Big Sky Penguin, LLC
> 503 S Baldwin St, #1
> Madison WI 53703
> 608.250.2720
> http://bigskypenguin.com
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> telekinesis, raise my hand.
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Use PHPMailer or one of the other classes available...makes life
sooooo much easier

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Re: Sending email w/ attachments

Funny, I just had to figure out today how to nicely do HTML e-mails. I
ended up using PEAR:Mail_mime, and it worked pretty well. It will also
work for your attachments. I believe that PHP itself recommends it on
their mail() function reference page.

Adam.

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Skip Evans wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Trying to send emails with attachments, first try at this. And am trying =
to
> adapt sample code I found here:
>
> http://www.webcheatsheet.com/PHP/send_email_text_html_attach ment.php
>
> Trying this:
>
> ($data contains the contents of the file; I've verified this)
>
> $hash =3D md5(date('r', time()));
> $attachment =3D chunk_split(base64_encode($data));
> $body_attachment =3D "--PHP-mixed-$hash--\n" .
> "Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name=3D\"$filename\"\r\n" .
> "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n" .
> "Content-Disposition: attachment\n".
> $attachment . "\n" .
> "--PHP-mixed-$hash--\n";
>
> I then append $attachment this to the end of the email body and send it o=
n.
> I've verified it is reading the file properly, in this test case it is a
> place text file. But I've tried a PDF and that did not work as well.
>
> What happens is the email comes through and shows an attachment paper cli=
p
> icon in Thunderbird, but when the email is clicked on the icon disappears
> and the email is empty, even the body is not there and no attachment eith=
er.
>
> A final question I have is does the content-type value need to change for
> text files, Word Docs, PDFs, Excel files, etc, or is there one type that =
can
> handle any file type?
>
> Any help would be great. I'm rather stuck and floundering here.
>
> Thanks,
> Skip
>
> --
> ==================== =====
============
> Skip Evans
> Big Sky Penguin, LLC
> 503 S Baldwin St, #1
> Madison WI 53703
> 608.250.2720
> http://bigskypenguin.com
> ------------------------------------
> Those of you who believe in
> telekinesis, raise my hand.
>  -- Kurt Vonnegut
>
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>



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Re: Sending email w/ attachments

Bastien Koert wrote:
>
> Use PHPMailer or one of the other classes available...makes life
> sooooo much easier
>


Kick Ass!!!


Yes! Wow! Was that a breeze! That class rocks!

Thanks tons, Bastien!

I have to admit when I first saw your reply I thought, "Oh,
man, another class to learn? But I know this is so close to
working."

I look at the sample and thought, "This looks easy," and had
it working in no time.

Big thanks again!

Attachments were a big deal here and this makes it a breeze,
AND it looks like multiple attachments would be no problem?

Very cool!

Skip

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Re: Sending email w/ attachments

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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Check out this link http://www.learnphp-tutorial.com/Email.cfm

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Skip Evans wrote:

> Bastien Koert wrote:
>
>>
>> Use PHPMailer or one of the other classes available...makes life
>> sooooo much easier
>>
>>
>
> Kick Ass!!!
>
>
> Yes! Wow! Was that a breeze! That class rocks!
>
> Thanks tons, Bastien!
>
> I have to admit when I first saw your reply I thought, "Oh, man, another
> class to learn? But I know this is so close to working."
>
> I look at the sample and thought, "This looks easy," and had it working in
> no time.
>
> Big thanks again!
>
> Attachments were a big deal here and this makes it a breeze, AND it looks
> like multiple attachments would be no problem?
>
> Very cool!
>
>
> Skip
>
> --
> ====================================
> Skip Evans
> Big Sky Penguin, LLC
> 503 S Baldwin St, #1
> Madison WI 53703
> 608.250.2720
> http://bigskypenguin.com
> ------------------------------------
> Those of you who believe in
> telekinesis, raise my hand.
> -- Kurt Vonnegut
>
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Re: Sending email w/ attachments

Hi,

> Very cool!

I'll take that as a compliment... :-)

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Re: Sending email w/ attachments

On Aug 10, 2009, at 11:22 PM, Skip Evans wrote:

> Bastien Koert wrote:
>> Use PHPMailer or one of the other classes available...makes life
>> sooooo much easier
>
>
> Kick Ass!!!
>
>
> Yes! Wow! Was that a breeze! That class rocks!
>
> Thanks tons, Bastien!
>
> I have to admit when I first saw your reply I thought, "Oh, man,
> another class to learn? But I know this is so close to working."
>
> I look at the sample and thought, "This looks easy," and had it
> working in no time.
>
> Big thanks again!
>
> Attachments were a big deal here and this makes it a breeze, AND it
> looks like multiple attachments would be no problem?
>
> Very cool!
>
> Skip
>
> --
> ====================================
> Skip Evans
> Big Sky Penguin, LLC
> 503 S Baldwin St, #1
> Madison WI 53703
> 608.250.2720
> http://bigskypenguin.com
> ------------------------------------
> Those of you who believe in
> telekinesis, raise my hand.
> -- Kurt Vonnegut


Yep, I created a wrapper for the class and pass in attachments as an
array. Then just loop thru the array with the attachment code. It's
very easy.

Bastien

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Re: Sending email w/ attachments

Hi,

> ...

Sorry, quoted wrong email. Oopsy...

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