Php Sendmail With Attachment

costamesakid · October 11, 2012

I am having trouble learning how to a send an attachment using a PHP script. Any help is greatly appreciated. Below is my script followed by a snippet of my HTML:

<?php

$to = "jsmith@yahoo.com";

$subject = "Purchase Received!";

$email = $_REQUEST['email'];

$mar_stat = $_REQUEST['mar_stat'];

$client_name = $_REQUEST['client_name'];

$spouse_name = $_REQUEST['spouse_name'];

$client_dob_month = $_REQUEST['client_dob_month'];

$client_dob_day = $_REQUEST['client_dob_day'];

$client_dob_year = $_REQUEST['client_dob_year'];

$spouse_dob_month = $_REQUEST['spouse_dob_month'];

$spouse_dob_day = $_REQUEST['spouse_dob_day'];

$spouse_dob_year = $_REQUEST['spouse_dob_year'];

$client_income = $_REQUEST['client_income'];

$spouse_income = $_REQUEST['spouse_income'];

$address = $_REQUEST['address'];

$city = $_REQUEST['city'];

$state = $_REQUEST['state'];

$zip = $_REQUEST['zip'];

$email = $_REQUEST['email'];

$area = $_REQUEST['area'];

$prefix = $_REQUEST['prefix'];

$phone = $_REQUEST['phone'];

$contact_method = $_REQUEST['contact_method'];

$client_ret_age = $_REQUEST['client_ret_age'];

$spouse_ret_age = $_REQUEST['spouse_ret_age'];

$desired_gross_inc = $_REQUEST['desired_gross_inc'];

$apprx_ret_invest = $_REQUEST['apprx_ret_invest'];

$apprx_nonret_invest = $_REQUEST['apprx_nonret_invest'];

$pension = $_REQUEST['pension'];

$pension_comments = $_REQUEST['pension_comments'];

$life_expect = $_REQUEST['life_expect'];

$spouse_life_expect = $_REQUEST['spouse_life_expect'];

$life_expect_comments = $_REQUEST['life_expect_comments'];

$work_ret = $_REQUEST['work_ret'];

$spouse_work_ret = $_REQUEST['spouse_work_ret'];

$work_ret_comments = $_REQUEST['work_ret_comments'];

$inheritance = $_REQUEST['inheritance'];

$inheritance_comments = $_REQUEST['inheritance_comments'];

$headers = "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";

$headers .= "From: $email";

$message = "Purchase Received! Customer Infromation Form Married?: $mar_stat Client Name: $client_name Spouse_Name: $spouse_name Client DOB: $client_dob_month-$client_dob_day-$client_dob_day Spouse DOB: $spouse_dob_month-$spouse_dob_day-spouse_dob_day Client Income: $client_income Spouse Income: $spouse_income Address: $address City: $city State: $state Zip: $zip Email: $email Phone: $area-$prefix-$phone Best Contact Method: $contact_method Desired Client Retirement Age: $client_ret_age Desired Spouse Retirement Age: $spouse_ret_age Desired Gross Income: $desired_gross_inc Approximate Retirement Investments: $apprx_ret_invest Approximate Non-Retirement Investments: $apprx_nonret_invest Pension: $pension Pension Comments: $pension_comments Client Life Expectancy: $life_expect Spouse Life Expectancy: $spouse_life_expect Life Expectancy Comments: $life_expect_comments Client Working in Retirement: $work_ret Spouse Working in Retirement: $spouse_work_ret Working in Retirement Comments: $work_ret_comments Inheritance Expected: $inheritance Inheritance Comments: $inheritance_comments";

$sent = mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

if($sent)

header( "Location: http://www.sspla.com/thankyou_purchase.html" );

else

header( "Location: http://www.sspla.com/sorry_purchase.html" );

?>

Here is the HTML snippet:

<fieldset> <legend> Attach Statement </legend>

<tr>

<input type="file" name='statement' maxlength="275" /> NOTE: Failure to Attach Your Statement May Result in a Delay Proccessing Your Purchase

</td>

</tr>

</table>

</fieldset>

THANKS!

Pikachu2000 · October 11, 2012

Do you have a question?

Also, when posting code, enclose it within the forum's

 . . .

BBCode tags.

DarkerAngel · October 11, 2012

You have to format the message as MIME Message

I actually have a ready made script for it but what would be the fun in sharing that right away, you're here to learn right?

There are actual tools to do this but mine is just PHP and pushes the message out with the mail() function. Not too far from what you have now, but far more elaborate and what I consider portable (I don't have to rewrite the code just write configuration files.)

costamesakid · October 11, 2012

OK I will look into MIME format. This has to be done just when sending an email with an attachment? My script worked fine until I had to add the attcahment code. I thought it would be pretty straight forward but have obviously been struggling with it. Thanks

DarkerAngel · October 11, 2012

OK I will look into MIME format. This has to be done just when sending an email with an attachment? My script worked fine until I had to add the attcahment code. I thought it would be pretty straight forward but have obviously been struggling with it. Thanks

Yes if you want a successful file attached to an email message it should be done in MIME format.

An email message is a singular document, if there something such as a file attached it must be encoded into the message, and you very well should not expect the end user to translate that jumbled information into a readable format.

That is what MIME does.

To be honest I wish I could be more help at the moment, but I would have to remind myself of a few things too as I had got used to my ready made code. (all I had to do was run something like $emailer->attachment($filename); and my code did everything for me)

Alas had recently got off my windows server and setup my linux, so my old windows hard drive is locked away in my linux server and I have yet to implement means of remote access and I am away from it ATM, and the file is contained therein.

Some Key things:

Boundaries (What they are and how to use them)
Content-type
Content-disposition
Content-Transfer-Encoding
(attachments would normally be base64 encoded so look into that too)
So when placing the attachment into the message I would expect something similar to:
```
base64_encode(file_get_contents($file));
```

Edited October 11, 2012 by DarkerAngel

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