PHP email sent but no attachments??

tmartinez21 · August 1, 2011

Hello everyone,

I am new to the PHP scene and just from my short experience it is one amazing scripting language. But i'm having an issue sending an email out with attachments. I can receive the emails but no attachments so I know I must be overlooking something. Here is the code and hopefully someone can shed some light on what I am doing wrong. Here is my code, thanks.

<?php

/*Subject and Email Variables*/

$emailSubject = 'Digital Online Form';

$webMaster = 'tmartinez21@live.com';

/*Gathering Date Variables*/

$email = $_POST['email'];

$firstName = $_POST['firstName'];

$lastName = $_POST['lastName'];

$newspaper = $_POST['newspaper'];

$advertiser = $_POST['advertiser'];

$adSize = $_POST['adSize'];

$adType = $_POST['adType'];

$attachment = $_POST['attachment'];

$comment = $_POST['comment'];

$body = <<<EOD

Email: $email

First Name: $firstName

Last Name: $lastName

Newspaper: $newspaper

Advertiser: $advertiser

Ad Size: $adSize

Ad Type: $adType

Comment: $comment

EOD;

$headers = "From: $email\r\n";

$success = mail($webMaster, $emailSubject, $body, $headers, $attachment);

// Obtain file upload vars

$attachment = $_FILES['attachment']['tmp_name'];

$attachment_type = $_FILES['attachment']['type'];

$attachment_name = $_FILES['attachment']['name'];

if (file($attachment)) {

// Read the file to be attached ('rb' = read binary)

$file = fopen($attachment,'rb');

$data = fread($file,filesize($attachment));

fclose($file);

// Generate a boundary string

$semi_rand = md5(time());

$mime_boundary = "==Multipart_Boundary_x{$semi_rand}x";

// Add the headers for a file attachment

$headers .= "\nMIME-Version: 1.0\n" .

"Content-Type: multipart/mixed;\n" .

" boundary=\"{$mime_boundary}\"";

// Add a multipart boundary above the plain message

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

"--{$mime_boundary}\n" .

"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n" .

"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n" .

$attachment . "\n\n";

// Base64 encode the file data

$data = chunk_split(base64_encode($data));

// Add file attachment to the message

$attachment .= "--{$mime_boundary}\n" .

"Content-Type: {$attachment_type};\n" .

" name=\"{$attachment_name}\"\n" .

//"Content-Disposition: attachment;\n" .

//" filename=\"{$attachment}\"\n" .

"Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n\n" .

$data . "\n\n" .

"--{$mime_boundary}--\n";

}

/*Results render as HTML*/

$theResults = <<<EOD

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<head>

<title>Untitled Document</title>

</head>

<body>

Thank you for your request. Your online/spec ad should be available in 24hrs or less. You may close this window at any time.

</body>

</html>

EOD;

echo "$theResults";

?>

DavidAM · August 1, 2011

You've got a couple of problems here.

 $success = mail($webMaster, $emailSubject, $body, $headers, $attachment);

1) This is the line that sends the email. You have this line before you load the attachment, so you have sent the email without any attachments;

2) Attachments are sent as part of the body of the message. The fifth parameter to the mail call is for additional parameters to the sendmail call.

tmartinez21 · August 1, 2011

Thanks for your reply. I moved the mail() line towards the bottom of the script. When I receive the email, it showed up like below but again without attachment. Attached is the code with the change I made. Again thanks for helping me out on this. Thoughts about anything else I might be doing wrong??

MIME-Version: 1.0

Content-Type: multipart/mixed;

boundary="==Multipart_Boundary_x65f6789e763d68cb2d16133286096ee0x"

Email: jwoods@elpasotimes.com

First Name: Joe

Last Name: Woods

Newspaper: Alamogordo Daily News

Advertiser: Alamo City Supply

Ad Size: 300x250

Ad Type: Static

Comment: Cars.

[attachment deleted by admin]

Nodral · August 2, 2011

Hi

Save yourself loads of time and effort.

Download a prebuilt mailer. I use Rmail, which can be found from Google. It will do everything you want and save you hours and hours.

DavidAM · August 2, 2011

2) Attachments are sent as part of the body of the message. The fifth parameter to the mail call is for additional parameters to the sendmail call.

That is why the attachments are not in the mail you received.

Also, to get the part you ARE receiving to be displayed as HTML instead of showing the tags, you need to give that part the Content-Type header for HTML.

So basically, the part you now have as the BODY becomes the FIRST part of your MULTI-PART MIME message.

IrOnMaSk · August 2, 2011

it always pain in the behind trying to get php send the attachment if you don't know how and just use somebody else's code...

the easieast way is to send it without outlook or yahoo or gmail, but i guess you have to use php, don't you!!!

use a already build phpmailer... works exactly same and no scripting needed just some configuration but that's easy... but if you need to feel geeky it's possible to send mail with attachment purely using php...

I've tried and gave up... I use sendmail instead

tmartinez21 · August 3, 2011

Thanks everyone for your input, I finally made the changes and now im receiving my attachments with my emails. Thanks again.

IrOnMaSk · August 3, 2011

fantastic, can you share that code? i wanna give it a try again,

ty

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