Email Image Attachment With mail()

[matt86]

I'm trying to email an image on my server as an attachment. To accomplish this task, I used the following PHP script which grabs a JPG (called "php.jpg") located in a directory called "screenshots" from my server and sends it as an attachment.

 

<?php

$path = "screenshots/php.jpg";
$fp = fopen($path, 'r');
do //we loop until there is no data left
{
        $data = fread($fp, 8192);
        if (strlen($data) == 0) break;
        $content .= $data;
      } while (true);
$content_encode = chunk_split(base64_encode($content));


$mime_boundary = "<<<--==+X[".md5(time())."]";

$headers .= "From: Automatic <[email protected]>\r\n"; 
$headers .= "To: SomeName <[email protected]>\r\n"; 

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

$message .= "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\r\n";
$message .= "\r\n";
$message .= "--".$mime_boundary."\r\n";

$message .= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\r\n";
$message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\r\n";
$message .= "\r\n";
$message .= "Email content and what not: \r\n";
$message .= "This is the file you asked for! \r\n";
$message .= "--".$mime_boundary."\r\n";

$message .= "Content-Type: image/jpeg;\r\n";
$message .= " name=\"php.jpg\"\r\n";
$message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable\r\n";
$message .= "Content-Disposition: attachment;\r\n";
$message .= " filename=\"php.jpg\"\r\n";
$message .= "\r\n";
$message .= $content_encode;
$message .= "\r\n";
$message .= "--".$mime_boundary."\r\n";

$ok = mail("[email protected]", "file by email", $message, $headers);

?>

 

Overall, the script works. I receive an email in my inbox containing the message text specified above and a JPG attachment.

 

 

My problem occurs when I try to view the attachment. Clicking the attachment simply opens a new browser window and displays a missing image icon.

 

Do you see any problems with my script that would prevent the image from appearing?

 

Any info would be great. Thanks!

[JAY6390]

Change the encoding to base64 encoding

[matt86]

In the loop, I'm already using base64 encoding. Did you notice something else?

[matt86]

Change the encoding to base64 encoding

 

Jay, I love you! I figured out what you meant and changed my "Content-transfer-encoding" to base64. Worked perfectly.

 

Thanks so much!