Re: Sending email w/ attachments

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Skip Evans<skip@bigskypenguin.com> wrote: > Hey all, > > Trying to send emails with attachments, first try at this. And am trying to > adapt sample code I found here: > > > http://www.webcheatsheet.com/PHP/send_email_text_html_attachment.php > > Trying this: > > ($data contains the contents of the file; I've verified this) > > $hash = md5(date('r', time())); > $attachment = chunk_split(base64_encode($data)); > $body_attachment = "--PHP-mixed-$hash--\n" . > "Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name=\"$filename\"\r\n" . > "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n" . > "Content-Disposition: attachment\n". > $attachment . "\n" . > "--PHP-mixed-$hash--\n"; > > I then append $attachment this to the end of the email body and send it on. > I've verified it is reading the file properly, in this test case it is a > place text file. But I've tried a PDF and that did not work as well. > > What happens is the email comes through and shows an attachment paper clip > icon in Thunderbird, but when the email is clicked on the icon disappears > and the email is empty, even the body is not there and no attachment either. > > A final question I have is does the content-type value need to change for > text files, Word Docs, PDFs, Excel files, etc, or is there one type that can > handle any file type? > > Any help would be great. I'm rather stuck and floundering here. > > Thanks, > Skip > > -- > ==================================== > Skip Evans > Big Sky Penguin, LLC > 503 S Baldwin St, #1 > Madison WI 53703 > 608.250.2720 > http://bigskypenguin.com > ------------------------------------ > Those of you who believe in > telekinesis, raise my hand. >  -- Kurt Vonnegut > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > Use PHPMailer or one of the other classes available...makes life sooooo much easier -- Bastien Cat, the other other white meat