Email File Attachment

[monarch_684]

I am trying to send an attachment with an email script. I can send the email but the attachment is not working correctly. I grabbed this script from a template on the net.

$from = "Jane Doe <noreply@domain.com>";
        $subject = "Here is your attachment";
        $fileatt = "flyer.jpg";
        $fileatttype = "image/jpg";
        $fileattname = "Flyer.jpg";
        $headers = "From: $from";
        $file = fopen( $fileatt, 'rb' );
        $data = fread( $file, filesize( $fileatt ) );
        fclose( $file );
        $semi_rand = md5( time() );
        $mime_boundary = "==Multipart_Boundary_x{$semi_rand}x";
        $headers .= "nMIME-Version: 1.0n" . "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;n" . " boundary=\"{$mime_boundary}\"";
        $message = "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.nn" . "–{$mime_boundary}n" . "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"n" . "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bitnn" . $message . "nn";
        $data = chunk_split( base64_encode( $data ) );
        $message .= "–{$mime_boundary}n" . "Content-Type: {$fileatttype};n" . " name=\"{$fileattname}\"n" . "Content-Disposition: attachment;n" . " filename=\"{$fileattname}\"n" . "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64nn" . $data . "nn" . "–{$mime_boundary}–n";
        if( mail( $to, $subject, $message, $headers ) ) {
            echo "<p>The email was sent.</p>";
        }
        else {
            echo "<p>There was an error sending the mail.</p>";
        } 

[NogDog]

Looks like your script is just using the letter "n" as the mail header separator. It probably is some sort of copy error, and should be "\n" for the newline character. In fact, there is a good probability that you will need to use "\r\n" in each instance (carriage-return/newline).

[monarch_684]

This is what I changed the code to

    $from = "Jane Doe <noreply@domain.com>"; 
        $subject = "Here is your attachment"; 
        $fileatt = "flyer.jpg"; 
        $fileatttype = "image/jpg"; 
        $fileattname = "Flyer.jpg"; 
        $headers = "From: $from"; 
        $file = fopen( $fileatt, 'rb' ); 
        $data = fread( $file, filesize( $fileatt ) ); 
        fclose( $file ); 
        $semi_rand = md5( time() ); 
        $mime_boundary = "==Multipart_Boundary_x{$semi_rand}x"; 
        $headers .= "nMIME-Version: 1.0\r\n" . "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;\r\n" . " boundary=\"{$mime_boundary}\""; 
        $message = "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\r\n" . "–{$mime_boundary}\r\n" . "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\r\n" . "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\r\n" . $message . "\r\n"; 
        $data = chunk_split( base64_encode( $data ) ); 
        $message .= "–{$mime_boundary}\r\n" . "Content-Type: {$fileatttype};\r\n" . " name=\"{$fileattname}\"\r\n" . "Content-Disposition: attachment;\r\n" . " filename=\"{$fileattname}\"\r\n" . "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n" . $data . "\r\n" . "–{$mime_boundary}–\r\n"; 
        if( mail( $to, $subject, $message, $headers ) ) { 
            echo "<p>The email was sent.</p>"; 
        } 
        else { 
            echo "<p>There was an error sending the mail.</p>"; 
        } 

I get the email minus the attachment now. Any ideas?

[NogDog]

I think you missed one:

//...........vvvv
$headers .= "\r\nMIME-Version: 1.0\r\n" . "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;\r\n" . " boundary=\"{$mime_boundary}\""; 

Frankly, I hate messing with the mail stuff, and just use PHPMailer when I need to do anything more than send a simple email message.

[monarch_684]

I have never used PHPMailer. Is it easy to use?

[NogDog]

"Easy" is relative, I guess. It probably helps if you have a basic understanding of PHP object-oriented syntax, but there are a number of pretty good examples on their site that cover most typical tasks.