[SOLVED] Need help with mail script (text to attachment).

[mesje]

Hi guys,

 

thanks for reading my cry for help I can make a normal working mail script no problems... but I now need a script that converts the input of text fields on screen to a .txt file that will be send as attachment when the user clicks submit/send.

 

Is this by all means even possible with php?

 

Any pointers or help will be greatly appriciated.

 

Thanks for your time.

[mesje]

UPDATE:

 

Ok with fwrite() I now create a .txt file ("mytext.txt") on the servers folder where the php is in.

 

Now my problem is that I cant send this txt file, all tutorials out there are about users uploading attachments but I want a fixed attachment to be sent (mytext.txt).

 

Also what is the Content-Type: of a .txt file attachment?

 

Thanks for your help guys.

[PHP Monkeh]

The content type is "text/plain" I think?  Or maybe "plain/text", I can't quite remember.

 

Personally I only have a script for uploading a file and e-mailing that file as an attachment, and I'm not sure how to modify it to what you want

[mesje]

Ok solved it myself... I swear I tried it before but it didnt work, maybe I made a typo somewhere earlier. This is the code to send a fixed attachment (in my example its mytext.txt) from your own server, the file needs to be in the same folder as the script in my example but you could add a path to it too.

 

The $gegevens is the string that will be the content of the mytext.txt file.

 

<?php
// Read POST request params into global vars
$to      = $_POST['to'];
$from    = $_POST['from'];
$subject = $_POST['subject'];
$message = $_POST['message'];

// Obtain file upload vars
$fileatt      = "mytext.txt";
$fileatt_type = "text/plain";
$fileatt_name = "mytext.txt";

$headers = "From: $from";


// 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
$message = "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n\n" .
"--{$mime_boundary}\n" .
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n" .
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n" .
$message . "\n\n";

// Base64 encode the file data
$gegevens = chunk_split(base64_encode($gegevens));


// Add file attachment to the message
$message .= "--{$mime_boundary}\n" .
"Content-Type: {$fileatt_type};\n" .
" name=\"{$fileatt_name}\"\n" .
"Content-Disposition: attachment;\n" .
" filename=\"{$fileatt_name}\"\n" .
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n\n" .
$gegevens . "\n\n" .
"--{$mime_boundary}--\n";


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

?>