How can i attach an image using Phpmailer?

Question

I am using phphmailer and have attached an image, it shows only the image like an icon rather than image itself here is my code could you help.

$mail->AddEmbeddedImage('2.jpg', '2img', '2.jpg');
$mail->Subject  =  "Order Form:  Contact form submitted";
$mail->Body     =  $body . 'img src="../../photo/2img" ;

note: i have dropped html tag befor img as I get error sending this Q.

Answer 1

Per PHPMailer Manual , you sould use the method AddEmbeddedImage

$mail->AddEmbeddedImage(filename, cid, name);
By using this function with this example's value above, results in this code:
$mail->AddEmbeddedImage('my-photo.jpg', 'my-photo', 'my-photo.jpg ');

like this:

$mail->AddEmbeddedImage("rocks.png", "my-attach", "rocks.png");
$mail->Body = 'Embedded Image: <img alt="PHPMailer" src="cid:my-attach"> Here is an image!';

so cid:my-attach will be replaced with the inline-source of the image that's inside the email body

Answer 2

Using the AddEmbeddedImage() function works well in showing the embedded image in the web based emails. However, Yahoo always adds it as an attachment too. To overcome this problem, you can safely disregard the AddEmbeddedImage() and link to the full path of the image on your server and PHPMailer has the capacity of converting it to CID and It will correctly show as embedded image and Yahoo won't add it as an attachment anymore.

In the html body of the message, add it like usual:

<img src="http://PATH-TO-IMAGE" alt='THIS IS THE IMAGE" />