note 61644 modified in ref.mail by didou

Corrupted Attachments ??? I spent many hours with corrupted attachments (of all types of files) - The answer: a blank line is needed after $msg.=$file \r\n \r\n [incredible but true]. Heres some useful code for sending an attachment, and display html OR text depending on the users email-reader. i work with many different systems, so... <?php # Is the OS Windows or Mac or Linux if (strtoupper(substr(PHP_OS,0,3)=='WIN')) { $eol="\r\n"; } elseif (strtoupper(substr(PHP_OS,0,3)=='MAC')) { $eol="\r"; } else { $eol="\n"; } ?> <?php # File for Attachment $f_name="../../letters/".$letter; // use relative path OR ELSE big headaches. $letter is my file for attaching. $handle=fopen($f_name, 'rb'); $f_contents=fread($handle, filesize($f_name)); $f_contents=chunk_split(base64_encode($f_contents)); //Encode The Data For Transition using base64_encode(); $f_type=filetype($f_name); fclose($handle); # To Email Address $emailaddress="him@her.com"; # Message Subject $emailsubject="Heres An Email with a PDF".date("Y/m/d H:i:s"); # Message Body ob_start(); require("emailbody.php"); // i made a simple & pretty page for showing in the email $body=ob_get_contents(); ob_end_clean(); # Common Headers $headers .= 'From: Jonny <jon@genius.com>'.$eol; $headers .= 'Reply-To: Jonny <jon@genius.com>'.$eol; $headers .= 'Return-Path: Jonny <jon@genius.com>'.$eol; // these two to set reply address $headers .= "Message-ID: <".$now." TheSystem@".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].">".$eol; $headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP v".phpversion().$eol; // These two to help avoid spam-filters # Boundry for marking the split & Multitype Headers $mime_boundary=md5(time()); $headers .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0'.$eol; $headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary=\"".$mime_boundary."\"".$eol; $msg = ""; # Attachment $msg .= "--".$mime_boundary.$eol; $msg .= "Content-Type: application/pdf; name=\"".$letter."\"".$eol; // sometimes i have to send MS Word, use 'msword' instead of 'pdf' $msg .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64".$eol; $msg .= "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"".$letter."\"".$eol.$eol; // !! This line needs TWO end of lines !! IMPORTANT !! $msg .= $f_contents.$eol.$eol; # Setup for text OR html $msg .= "Content-Type: multipart/alternative".$eol; # Text Version $msg .= "--".$mime_boundary.$eol; $msg .= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1".$eol; $msg .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit".$eol; $msg .= "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.".$eol; $msg .= "If you are reading this, please update your email-reading-software.".$eol; $msg .= "+ + Text Only Email from Genius Jon + +".$eol.$eol; # HTML Version $msg .= "--".$mime_boundary.$eol; $msg .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1".$eol; $msg .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit".$eol; $msg .= $body.$eol.$eol; # Finished $msg .= "--".$mime_boundary."--".$eol.$eol; // finish with two eol's for better security. see Injection. # SEND THE EMAIL ini_set(sendmail_from,'from@me.com'); // the INI lines are to force the From Address to be used ! mail($emailaddress, $emailsubject, $msg, $headers); ini_restore(sendmail_from); ?> I hope this helps. Jon Webb [Madrid&London] --was-- Corrupted Attachments ??? I spent many hours with corrupted attachments (of all types of files) - The answer: a blank line is needed after $msg.=$file \r\n \r\n [incredible but true]. Heres some useful code for sending an attachment, and display html OR text depending on the users email-reader. i work with many different systems, so... <?php # Is the OS Windows or Mac or Linux if (strtoupper(substr(PHP_OS,0,3)=='WIN')): $eol="\r\n"; elseif (strtoupper(substr(PHP_OS,0,3)=='MAC')): $eol="\r"; else: $eol="\n"; endif; ?> <?php # File for Attachment $f_name="../../letters/".$letter; // use relative path OR ELSE big headaches. $letter is my file for attaching. $handle=fopen($f_name, 'rb'); $f_contents=fread($handle, filesize($f_name)); $f_contents=chunk_split(base64_encode($f_contents)); //Encode The Data For Transition using base64_encode(); $f_type=filetype($f_name); fclose($handle); # To Email Address $emailaddress="him@her.com"; # Message Subject $emailsubject="Heres An Email with a PDF".date("Y/m/d H:i:s"); # Message Body ob_start(); require("emailbody.php"); // i made a simple & pretty page for showing in the email $body=ob_get_contents(); ob_end_clean(); # Common Headers $headers .= 'From: Jonny <jon@genius.com>'.$eol; $headers .= 'Reply-To: Jonny <jon@genius.com>'.$eol; $headers .= 'Return-Path: Jonny <jon@genius.com>'.$eol; // these two to set reply address $headers .= "Message-ID: <".$now." TheSystem@".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].">".$eol; $headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP v".phpversion().$eol; // These two to help avoid spam-filters # Boundry for marking the split & Multitype Headers $mime_boundary=md5(time()); $headers .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0'.$eol; $headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary=\"".$mime_boundary."\"".$eol; $msg = ""; # Attachment $msg .= "--".$mime_boundary.$eol; $msg .= "Content-Type: application/pdf; name=\"".$letter."\"".$eol; // sometimes i have to send MS Word, use 'msword' instead of 'pdf' $msg .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64".$eol; $msg .= "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"".$letter."\"".$eol.$eol; // !! This line needs TWO end of lines !! IMPORTANT !! $msg .= $f_contents.$eol.$eol; # Setup for text OR html $msg .= "Content-Type: multipart/alternative".$eol; # Text Version $msg .= "--".$mime_boundary.$eol; $msg .= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1".$eol; $msg .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit".$eol; $msg .= "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.".$eol; $msg .= "If you are reading this, please update your email-reading-software.".$eol; $msg .= "+ + Text Only Email from Genius Jon + +".$eol.$eol; # HTML Version $msg .= "--".$mime_boundary.$eol; $msg .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1".$eol; $msg .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit".$eol; $msg .= $body.$eol.$eol; # Finished $msg .= "--".$mime_boundary."--".$eol.$eol; // finish with two eol's for better security. see Injection. # SEND THE EMAIL ini_set(sendmail_from,'from@me.com'); // the INI lines are to force the From Address to be used ! mail($emailaddress, $emailsubject, $msg, $headers); ini_restore(sendmail_from); ?> I hope this helps. Jon Webb [Madrid&London] http://php.net/manual/en/ref.mail.php