Html/PHP Mail attachment issue

PHP_rookie · October 16, 2007

Hi

I've managed to put bit's and pieces of code together to create an online email form with attachment.

When I click on send the email gets sent and my email client doesn't tagg it as a spam, which is good,

BUT the attached file size is 0.0 Kb. The name of the attached file is correct and the format, but it's

empty.

If someone could help me with the missing code or faulty code I would be greatful.

This is HTML

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<html>

<head>

</head>

<tr>

<tr>

</tr>

<tr>

</tr>

<tr>

</tr>

<tr>

</tr>

<tr>

</td>

</tr>

</table>

</form>

</td>

</tr>

<tr>

</tr>

</table>

</body>

</html>

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This is the PHP code

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

<head>

<title>Mail sender</title>

</head>

<body>

<?

$eol="\r\n";

$myname=ucfirst($_REQUEST["myname"]);

$myemail=ucfirst($_REQUEST["myemail"]);

$toemail=ucfirst($_REQUEST["toemail"]);

$filename=$_FILES["myfile"]["name"];

$filetype=$_FILES["myfile"]["type"];

$filesize=$_FILES["myfile"]["size"];

$filetemp=$_FILES["myfile"]["tmp_name"];

if($filetype=="application/acad" or $filetype=="image/jpeg" or $filetype=="application/pdf")

{

$message= $myname.$myemail;

// MAIL SUBJECT

$subject = "Testing PHP Mail";

// TO MAIL ADDRESS

$to = $toemail;

// MAIL HEADERS with attachment

$fp = fopen($myfile, "rb");

$file = fread($fp, $myfile_size);

$file = chunk_split(base64_encode($file));

$num = md5(time());

//Normal headers

$headers = "From: ".$myname." <".$myemail.">\r\n";

$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";

$headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/related; ";

$headers .= "boundary=".$num."\r\n";

$headers .= "--$num\r\n";

// This two steps to help avoid spam

$headers .= "Message-ID: <".$now." TheSystem@".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].">\r\n";

$headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP v".phpversion()."\r\n";

// With message

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

$headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit".$eol.$eol;

$headers .= "".$message."\n";

$headers .= "--".$num."\n";

// Attachment headers

$headers .= "Content-Type:".$filetype." ";

$headers .= "name=\"".$filename."\"".$eol;

$headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64".$eol;

$headers .= "Content-Description: ".$filename.$eol;

$headers .= "Content-Disposition: attachment; ";

$headers .= "filename=\"".$filename."\"".$eol.$eol;

$headers .= "".$file."\r\n";

$headers .= "--".$num."--";

// SEND MAIL

@mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

fclose($fp);

echo '<font style="font-family:Verdana, Arial; font-size:11px; color:#333333; font-weight:bold">Attachment has been sent Successfully.<br /></font>';

}

else

{

echo '<font style="font-family:Verdana, Arial; font-size:11px; color:#F3363F; font-weight:bold">Wrong file format. Mail was not sent.</font>';

}

?>

</body>

</html>

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Thanks!

BlueSkyIS · October 16, 2007

is $myfile_size ever defined before this line?

$file = fread($fp, $myfile_size);

PHP_rookie · October 18, 2007

I've posted all the code. So that's it

So I'm guess that's missing. How should I define it?

Sorry totally new to PHP.

BlueSkyIS · October 18, 2007

it looks like you already got it, just need to change a variable name. update the fread like so:

$file = fread($fp, $filesize);

PHP_rookie · October 18, 2007

Thanks!

I did update. But it still doesn't work. The email gets sent and everything works

except the file size. It's almost like it creates an empty attached file.

Do you have any other suggestions?

freakstyle · October 18, 2007

add an extra end of line here:

// from :
$headers  .= "".$file."\r\n";

// to:
$headers  .= "".$file."\r\n\r\n";

you also need to change the following:

// from :

      $headers  .= "Content-Type:".$filetype." ";
       $headers  .= "name=\"".$filename."\"".$eol;
       $headers  .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64".$eol;
       $headers  .= "Content-Description: ".$filename.$eol;
       $headers  .= "Content-Disposition: attachment; ";
       $headers  .= "filename=\"".$filename."\"".$eol.$eol;
       $headers  .= "".$file."\r\n";
       $headers  .= "--".$num."--"; 

// to:
       $message  .= "--".$num."--"; 
       $message  .= "Content-Type:".$filetype." ";
       $message  .= "name=\"".$filename."\"".$eol;
       $message  .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64".$eol;
       $message  .= "Content-Description: ".$filename.$eol;
       $message  .= "Content-Disposition: attachment; ";
       $message  .= "filename=\"".$filename."\"".$eol.$eol;
       $message  .= "".$file."\r\n\r\n";
       $message  .= "--".$num."--";

line breaks are usually the cause for incorrect sends. the trick is to find a solution that works for you, write a function / class and only enhance it.

Good luck

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