Req #48826 [Com]: Add attachment support to mail()

Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=48826&edit=1 ID: 48826 Comment by: anrdaemon at freemail dot ru Reported by: php at richardneill dot org Summary: Add attachment support to mail() Status: Open Type: Feature/Change Request Package: Mail related Operating System: * PHP Version: * Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: "Given the fact it is already overloaded", it is better to cleanup and shape the code for a more robust and predictable functionality. Not to bloat it unnecessarily. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-07-07 04:30:31] php at richardneill dot org Description: ------------ It would be a really nice if mail() supported an extra parameter for attachments. Perhaps an array containing the filenames (and whose keys, if present, would be the name of the attachments). (I know there are ways of doing this by installing pear classes, but that isn't always an option. And it's awkward to do it by hand). Given that mail() is already rather overloaded, it might be worth adding another function, say mail_attach() to do it. Reproduce code: --------------- Current alternative: $cmd = "echo '$BODY_TEXT' | mutt -s '$SUBJECT' -a '$filename_1' -a '$filename_2' '$email'"; exec ($cmd); which is ugly, has external dependencies, only works on Linux, and will break in interesting ways if shell-quoting isn't corrected. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=48826&edit=1