Anyone know the PHP header file extensions for sending attached documents ??

[PHP Learner]

Hello one and all,

 

Just a quick request here, I've written a script that sends an email with an attached file by the user. (docx, txt, pdf, doc, rtf) are the formats I have accepted. At the moment I'm sending them with the following...

 

$fileatt_type = "application/pdf"; // File Type

 

It works fine with all formats in older email clients, i.e, like yahoo before they updated the layout, but in the newer versions it's specific and if I try to send it this way it is always delivered as a .PDF and doesn't open if it is any of the other formats.

 

It may sound silly but I've searched a fair bit for the other extensions or formats to include instead of the above code (maybe something like application/doc or something) but there doesn't seem to be a list.

 

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

 

Much obliged, PHP the learned.

 

 

[laffin]

found a list here, but there a tons of other mime types. maybe you should consider using application/octet-stream, a binary type.

[PHP Learner]

Thanks laff, couldnt find your link but I went with this which seems to cover most of them.

 

$fileatt_type = "application/doc, application/txt, application/pdf, application/rtf, appl/text, application/vnd.msword, application/vnd.ms-word, application/winword, application/word,"; // File Type

 

Not sure about rich text documents tho, It's seems like they dropped it from Win 7.

 

Cheers mate, LP