Calamity-Clare Posted August 14, 2010 Share Posted August 14, 2010 Hi guys, I'm trying to write a script that generates a multipart plaintext/HTML email with a pdf attachment. After much research and trial & error, I seem to have reached a wall. At the moment, I am testing in gmail, hotmail and Outlook 2003. Gmail displays the HTML alternative of the message and attaches the pdf document, while hotmail & Outlook only attach the pdf without displaying either of the message alternatives. Here is the code: // Error display ini_set ('display_errors', 1); error_reporting (E_ALL | E_STRICT); // Setting a timestamp date_default_timezone_set('Australia/Perth'); $timestamp = date("d/m/y H:i:s", time()); // Create a boundary string. It must be unique, so we use the MD5 algorithm to generate a random hash $random_hash = md5(time()); // Read the attachment file contents into a string, encode it with MIME base64 & split it into smaller chunks $attachment = chunk_split(base64_encode(file_get_contents("success.pdf"))); // Create the Plain text message to be sent in the email body $content_text = "Hello, World!! \nIs this a Plain Text alternative?"; // Create the HTML message to be sent in the email body $content_html = "<html><body><h1>Hello, World!!</h1><p>This is <b>HTML</b> formatting.</p></body></html>"; // Sending the email $to = "$email"; $subject = "Test5-3.php :: $timestamp"; $headers = "From: The Company <[email protected]>\n"; $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"; $headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"$random_hash\"\n"; $headers .= "--$random_hash\n"; $headers .= "Content-Type: application/pdf\n"; $headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n"; $headers .= "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"success.pdf\"\n\n"; $headers .= "$attachment\n"; $message = "Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=\"$random_hash\"\n"; $message .= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n"; $message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n"; $message .= "$content_text\n"; $message .= "--$random_hash\n"; $message .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n"; $message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n"; $message .= "$content_html\n"; $message .= "--$random_hash--"; // Send the data in an email $mail_sent = @mail ($to, $subject, $message, $headers, "[email][email protected][/email]"); (That's not the full script, but it is the relevant part of it. The full script is attached.) Other variations of this code I have tried out include: - surrounding all the variables with ". .", eg: $headers .= "--".$random_hash."\n"; - sending the entire function as headers, instead of splitting it into message and headers, eg: $headers = "From: The Company <[email protected]>\n"; $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"; $headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"$random_hash\"\n"; $headers .= "--$random_hash\n"; $headers .= "Content-Type: application/pdf\n"; $headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n"; $headers .= "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"success.pdf\"\n\n"; $headers .= "$attachment\n"; $headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=\"$random_hash\"\n"; $headers .= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n"; $headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n"; $headers .= "$content_text\n"; $headers .= "--$random_hash\n"; $headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n"; $headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n"; $headers .= "$content_html\n"; $headers .= "--$random_hash--"; Does anyone know why I would be having this problem? It seems that nothing I've tried will work!! Thanks [attachment deleted by admin] Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/210689-html-email-with-attachment-being-received-differently-by-mail-programs/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
joel24 Posted August 14, 2010 Share Posted August 14, 2010 try the PHPmailer class. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/210689-html-email-with-attachment-being-received-differently-by-mail-programs/#findComment-1099089 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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