Home >>Advance PHP Tutorial >Sending Email With File Attachments

Sending Email With File Attachments

Sending Email With File Attachments

The last part of this porting Sending Email with attachments. To send and Email with attachments you have to use the multipart/mixed MIME type that specifies that mixed types will be included in the email.
<?php

//receiver of the email
$to = 'info@gmail.com';

//subject of the email
$subject = 'Test email with attachment';

$random_hash = md5(date('r', time()));

//define the headers.
$headers = "From: sanjeev@example.comrnReply-To: sanjeev@example.com";

//mime type specification
$headers .= "rnContent-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="PHP-mixed-".$random_hash.""";

//read the atachment file contents into a string,

//encode the contents with MIME base64,

//and split the contents  into smaller chunks using given below function

$attachments = chunk_split(base64_encode(file_get_contents('attachments.zip')));

//define the body of the message.
ob_start(); //Turn on output buffering

?>

Hello Test!!!
This is simple text email message.

--PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?> 
Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

<h2>Hello World!</h2>
<p>This is something with <b>HTML</b> formatting.</p>

--PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>--

--PHP-mixed-<?php echo $random_hash; ?> 
Content-Type: application/zip; name="attachment.zip" 
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 
Content-Disposition: attachment 

<?php echo $attachment; ?>
--PHP-mixed-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>--

<?php

//copy current buffer contents into $message
$message = ob_get_clean();
//send the email
$mail_sent = @mail( $to, $subject, $message, $headers );
//if the message is sent successfully print "Mail sent". Otherwise print "Mail failed"
echo $mail_sent ? "Mail sent" : "Mail failed";
?> 


No Sidebar ads