PHP Email Attachment

0-PHP-EMAIL-ATTACHMENT.MD

SEND EMAIL ATTACHMENT IN PHP

https://code-boxx.com/send-attachment-php-mail/

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1-attach-single.php

<?php
// (A) EMAIL SETTINGS
$mailTo = "jon@doe.com";
$mailSubject = "Test Attachment";
$mailMessage = "<strong>Test Message</strong>";
$mailAttach = "attach-a.png";

// (B) GENERATE RANDOM BOUNDARY TO SEPARATE MESSAGE & ATTACHMENTS
// https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc1341/7_2_Multipart.html
$mailBoundary = md5(time());
$mailHead = implode("\r\n", [
  "MIME-Version: 1.0",
  "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"$mailBoundary\""
]);

// (C) DEFINE THE EMAIL MESSAGE
$mailBody = implode("\r\n", [
  "--$mailBoundary",
  "Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8",
  "",
  $mailMessage
]);

// (D) MANUALLY ENCODE & ATTACH THE FILE
$mailBody .= implode("\r\n", [
  "",
  "--$mailBoundary",
  "Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name=\"". basename($mailAttach) . "\"",
  "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64",
  "Content-Disposition: attachment",
  "",
  chunk_split(base64_encode(file_get_contents($mailAttach))),
  "--$mailBoundary--"
]);

// (E) SEND
echo mail($mailTo, $mailSubject, $mailBody, $mailHead)
  ? "OK" : "ERROR" ;

2-attach-many.php

<?php
// (A) EMAIL SETTINGS
$mailTo = "jon@doe.com";
$mailSubject = "Test Attachment";
$mailMessage = "<strong>Test Message</strong>";
$mailAttach = ["attach-a.png", "attach-b.png"];

// (B) GENERATE RANDOM BOUNDARY TO SEPARATE MESSAGE & ATTACHMENTS
// https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc1341/7_2_Multipart.html
$mailBoundary = md5(time());
$mailHead = implode("\r\n", [
  "MIME-Version: 1.0",
  "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"$mailBoundary\""
]);

// (C) DEFINE THE EMAIL MESSAGE
$mailBody = implode("\r\n", [
  "--$mailBoundary",
  "Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8",
  "",
  $mailMessage
]);

// (D) MANUALLY ENCODE & ATTACH THE FILES
foreach ($mailAttach as $attach) {
  $mailBody .= implode("\r\n", [
    "",
    "--$mailBoundary",
    "Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name=\"". basename($attach) . "\"",
    "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64",
    "Content-Disposition: attachment",
    "",
    chunk_split(base64_encode(file_get_contents($attach))),
    "--$mailBoundary"
  ]);
}
$mailBody .= "--";

// (E) SEND
echo mail($mailTo, $mailSubject, $mailBody, $mailHead)
  ? "OK" : "ERROR" ;

3-php-mailer.php

<?php
// (A) LOAD PHPMAILER
// https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer
// composer require phpmailer/phpmailer
require "vendor/autoload.php";
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception;
$mail = new PHPMailer(true);

// (B) SET EMAIL
$mail->From = "you@site.com";
$mail->addAddress("jon@doe.com");
$mail->isHTML(true);
$mail->Subject = "Test Attachment";
$mail->Body = "<strong>Test Message</strong>";
$mail->addAttachment("attach-a.png");
$mail->addAttachment("attach-b.ppg");

// (C) SEND MAIL
try {
  $mail->send();
  echo "OK";
} catch (Exception $ex) { echo $mail->ErrorInfo; }