Doc #70082 [NEW]: mail() function description should provide right example of multi-part mail

From: ikonta at yandex dot ru Operating system: GNU/Linux 3.x kernel PHP version: Irrelevant Package: Mail related Bug Type: Documentation Problem Bug description:mail() function description should provide right example of multi-part mail Description: ------------ --- From manual page: http://www.php.net/function.mail --- Fix of https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=68776 in php-5.6.10 pointed rather important miss: Internet provides many _incorrect_ (!) examples of a widely spread task sending of multi-part emails (usually — attached files), but official documentation doesn't provide the correct solution. Providing slightly modified verified example from Internet, which correctly sends mails with attached files with php-5.6.11. Test script: --------------- <?php … // Common header: $mail_header = "From: ".$from_name." <".$from_mail.">\r\n"; $mail_header .= "Reply-To: ".$replyto."\r\n"; $mail_header .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"; $mail_header .= "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"".$uid."\"\r\n\r\n"; // Multi-part body: $mail_body = "--".$uid."\r\n"; $mail_body .= "Content-type:text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n"; $mail_body .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\r\n\r\n"; $mail_body .= $message."\r\n\r\n"; $mail_body .= "--".$uid."\r\n"; $mail_body .= "Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name=\"".$filename."\"\r\n"; $mail_body .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n"; $mail_body .= "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"".$filename."\"\r\n\r\n"; $mail_body .= $content."\r\n\r\n"; $mail_body .= "--".$uid."--"; // Really necessary parametr: $envelope = "-f" . $from_mail; //And sending message itself: mail($mailto, $subject, $mail_body, $mail_header, $envelope); ?> Expected result: ---------------- I expect to see the quoted script (or some similiar) in list of examples in http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php Actual result: -------------- But now I had to search web following error string: Jul 15 13:20:13 web httpd: PHP Warning: mail(): Multiple or malformed newlines found in additional_header in /var/www/project/inc/mail.inc on line 47 Finding mostly old, unsupported, incorrect and incompatible with php-5.6.10+ examples. -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=70082&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70082&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.5): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70082&r=trysnapshot55 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70082&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70082&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70082&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70082&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70082&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70082&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70082&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70082&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70082&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70082&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70082&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70082&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70082&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70082&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70082&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70082&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70082&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70082&r=mysqlcfg