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Send Email with an Attachment in PHP
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//define the receiver of the email | |
$to = 'youraddress@example.com'; | |
//define the subject of the email | |
$subject = 'Test email with attachment'; | |
//create a boundary string. It must be unique | |
//so we use the MD5 algorithm to generate a random hash | |
$random_hash = md5(date('r', time())); | |
//define the headers we want passed. Note that they are separated with \r\n | |
$headers = "From: webmaster@example.com\r\nReply-To: webmaster@example.com"; | |
//add boundary string and mime type specification | |
$headers .= "\r\nContent-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"PHP-mixed-".$random_hash."\""; | |
//read the atachment file contents into a string, | |
//encode it with MIME base64, | |
//and split it into smaller chunks | |
$attachment = chunk_split(base64_encode(file_get_contents('attachment.zip'))); | |
//define the body of the message. | |
ob_start(); //Turn on output buffering | |
?> | |
--PHP-mixed-<?php echo $random_hash; ?> | |
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>" | |
--PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?> | |
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" | |
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit | |
Hello World!!! | |
This is simple text email message. | |
--PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?> | |
Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" | |
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit | |
<h2>Hello World!</h2> | |
<p>This is something with <b>HTML</b> formatting.</p> | |
--PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>-- | |
--PHP-mixed-<?php echo $random_hash; ?> | |
Content-Type: application/zip; name="attachment.zip" | |
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 | |
Content-Disposition: attachment | |
<?php echo $attachment; ?> | |
--PHP-mixed-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>-- | |
<?php | |
//copy current buffer contents into $message variable and delete current output buffer | |
$message = ob_get_clean(); | |
//send the email | |
$mail_sent = @mail( $to, $subject, $message, $headers ); | |
//if the message is sent successfully print "Mail sent". Otherwise print "Mail failed" | |
echo $mail_sent ? "Mail sent" : "Mail failed"; |
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You should be using a library:
https://github.com/cubiclesoft/ultimate-email
https://github.com/Synchro/PHPMailer
https://github.com/swiftmailer/swiftmailer