HTML/Text E-mail with attachment using PHP
Question
I'm trying to set up a web application that sends an e-mail on completion to the user with an attachment. I want the e-mail to go in both HTML and text format to ensure that everyone can view it regardless of their mail settings. I'm having trouble getting it to work, so I was wondering if anyone can spot the problem with my code.
The code I'm using is below. This was taken as a template from another site, but I have done plenty of reading up so I have a rough understanding of how it all works. Unfortunately, not enough of an understanding to fix the problem!
$firstname = $_POST['firstname'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
//define the receiver of the email
$to = $email;
//define the subject of the email
$subject = "$firstname, thanks for using the One Minute Leveller";
//create a boundary string. It must be unique
//so we use the MD5 algorithm to generate a random hash
$random_hash = md5(date('r', time()));
//define the headers we want passed. Note that they are separated with \r\n
$headers = "From: The Xenon Group\r\nReply-To: no-reply@xenongroup.co.uk";
//add boundary string and mime type specification
$headers .= "\r\nContent-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"PHP-mixed-".$random_hash."\"";
//read the atachment file contents into a string,
//encode it with MIME base64,
//and split it into smaller chunks
$attachment = chunk_split(base64_encode(file_get_contents('Level3info.pdf')));
//define the body of the message.
ob_start(); //Turn on output buffering
?>
--PHP-mixed-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>"
--PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
TEXT E-MAIL GOES HERE. ACTUAL CONTENT REMOVED
--PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>
Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
<html><h1>HTML CONTENT GOES HERE. ACTUAL CONTENT REMOVED</h1></html>
--PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>--
--PHP-mixed-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>
Content-Type: application/pdf; name="Level3info.pdf"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment
<?php echo $attachment; ?>
--PHP-mixed-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>--
<?php
//copy current buffer contents into $message variable and delete current output buffer
$message = ob_get_clean();
//send the email
mail( $to, $subject, $message, $headers );
Can anyone help?!
3 answers
solution1
2 ACCPTED 2012-01-31 15:30:50
First thing, don't re-invent the wheel - use a library such as Pear Mail http://pear.php.net/package/Mail/redirected
Secondly, you have whitespace between your headers and that isn't allowed.
From the Mail RFC:
There are several places in this standard where comments and FWS may be freely inserted. To accommodate that syntax, an additional token for "CFWS" is defined for places where comments and/or FWS can occur. However, where CFWS occurs in this standard, it MUST NOT be inserted in such a way that any line of a folded header field is made up entirely of WSP characters and nothing else.
Kind regards,
John
solution2
1 2012-01-31 15:42:58
Here's what I use that works. It doesn't take into account text version vs. HTML version...just an HTML version only, but perhaps it will guide you toward an answer:
<?php
$mime_boundary = md5(uniqid(time()));
// to
$to = $_REQUEST["to"];
if (is_array($to)) $to = implode(", ", $to);
// from
$header = "From:". ($_REQUEST["fromName"] == "" ? $_REQUEST["fromAddress"] : "{$_REQUEST["fromName"]} <{$_REQUEST["fromAddress"]}>") ."\r\n";
$header .= "MIME-Version:1.0\r\n";
$header .= "Content-Type:multipart/mixed; boundary=\"{$mime_boundary}\"\r\n\r\n";
// message
$header .= "--{$mime_boundary}\r\n";
$header .= "Content-Type:text/html; charset=\"ISO-8859-1\"\r\n";
$header .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding:7bit\r\n\r\n";
$header .= "<html><head><style type=\"text/css\">body { font:10pt Arial; }</style></head><body>". str_replace("\r", "", str_replace("\n", "<br />", $_REQUEST["message"])) ."</body></html>\r\n\r\n";
// attachment
$attachments = (array)$_REQUEST["attachment"];
$attachmentNames = (array)$_REQUEST["attachmentName"];
for ($i = 0; $i < count($attachments); $i++)
{
if (empty($attachmentNames[$i]))
$attachmentNames[$i] = "attachment". ($i+1) .".txt";
if (!base64_decode($attachments[$i], true))
$attachments[$i] = base64_encode($attachments[$i]);
else
$attachments[$i] = str_replace("\r", "", str_replace("\n", "", str_replace(" ", "+", $attachments[$i])));
$header .= "--{$mime_boundary}\r\n";
$header .= "Content-Type:application/octet-stream; name=\"{$attachmentNames[$i]}\"\r\n";
$header .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding:base64\r\n";
$header .= "Content-Disposition:attachment; filename=\"{$attachmentNames[$i]}\"\r\n";
$header .= "{$attachments[$i]}\r\n\r\n";
}
if (mail($to, $_REQUEST["subject"], "", $header))
echo "SUCCESS";
else
echo "FAIL";
?>
solution3
1 2012-01-31 15:53:29
Maybe you want to take a look on PHPmailer . It offers all the functionality you want to use, but in a much cleaner and uptodate-standard way than the build-in mail() function. And there are some good tutorials out there.
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