Sending Email Attachment with PHP Mail

[dprichard]

I am trying to send an email attachment using PHP mail and found the script below. I have also found several other scripts. First time trying this and any help would be greatly appreciated. I get the same result no matter what I try which is an email with something similar to this in it:

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

-==Multipart_Boundary_xfdda778b8216c5c8a793740f6a858fcbx
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit



–==Multipart_Boundary_xfdda778b8216c5c8a793740f6a858fcbx
Content-Type: application/key;
name="test.key"
Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename="test.key"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

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-==Multipart_Boundary_xfdda778b8216c5c8a793740f6a858fcbx-

<?php 
$name = "Name goes here";
$email = "[email protected]";

$to = "$name <$email>";

$from = "John-Smith ";

$subject = "Here is your attachment";

$fileatt = "test.key";

$fileatttype = "application/key";

$fileattname = "test.key";

$headers = "From: $from";

$file = fopen($fileatt, 'rb');

$data = fread($file, filesize($fileatt));

fclose($file);

$semi_rand = md5(time());

$mime_boundary = "==Multipart_Boundary_x{$semi_rand}x";

$headers .= "\nMIME-Version: 1.0\n" .

"Content-Type: multipart/mixed;\n" .

" boundary=\"{$mime_boundary}\"";

$message = "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n\n" .

"-{$mime_boundary}\n" .

"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\n" .

"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n" .

$message .= "\n\n";

$data = chunk_split(base64_encode($data));

$message .= "–{$mime_boundary}\n" .

"Content-Type: {$fileatttype};\n" .

" name=\"{$fileattname}\"\n" .

"Content-Disposition: attachment;\n" .

" filename=\"{$fileattname}\"\n" .

"Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n\n" .

$data . "\n\n" .

"-{$mime_boundary}-\n";

if(mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers)) {

echo "

The email was sent.

";

}
else {

echo "

There was an error sending the mail.

";

}
?>

[MichigamJim]

Same Problem

I'm also getting all the text instead of the file. Obviously we're both failing somewhere in the encoding. Here's mine:

<?php
$to = '[email protected]'; 
$from = '[email protected]'; 
$sub = 'Test'; 
$filelist = '/Volumes/server/sites/thesite/some.jpg,/Volumes/server/sites/thesite/some.pdf';
$files = explode(",",$filelist);
$msg = lvMessage; 
$headers = "From: $from"; 

$semi_rand = md5(time()); 
$mime_boundary = "==Multipart_Boundary_x{$semi_rand}x"; 

// headers for attachment 
$headers .= "\nMIME-Version: 1.0\n" . "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;\n" . " boundary=\"{$mime_boundary}\""; 

// multipart boundary 
$msg = "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n\n" . "–{$mime_boundary}\n" . "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n" . "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n" . $msg . "\n\n"; 

// attachments code starts 
for($x=0;$x<count($files);$x++) 
{ 
$msg .= "–{$mime_boundary}\n"; 
$file = fopen($files[$x],"rb"); 
$data = fread($file,filesize($files[$x])); 
fclose($file); 
$data = chunk_split(base64_encode($data)); 
$msg .= "Content-Type: {\"application/octet-stream\"};\n" . " name=\"$files[$x]\"\n" . 
"Content-Disposition: attachment;\n" . " filename=\"$files[$x]\"\n" . 
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n\n" . $data . "\n\n"; 
} 
$msg .= "–{$mime_boundary}–\n"; 
$res = @mail($to, $sub, $msg, $headers); 

?>