email an attachment 1

[jianbo]

I want to email a pdf file as attachment. I read the thread in FAQ.
His code is :
$filename = "myfile.jpg";
$content_type = "image/jpeg";
$fd = fopen($filename, "r");
$data = fread($fd, filesize($filename));
fclose($fd);

While I don't know $content_type of pdf, so I left it empty. Then code doen't work. What should I put it in $content_type?

 

[sleipnir214]

You might try "application/pdf".


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[jianbo]

Unfortunately, I found even jpg file doesn't work for that source code? Who has tried to send attachment?
I tried to give $filename a real path, but it doesn't work either.
I wonder problem is on
$data = fread($fd, filesize($filename));
When I give a wrong $filename here, I got the email with a empty attchment.
Thanks.

 

[ericbrunson]

I'd look at using one of the mailer classes, like PEAR/Mail. You have to set up your mime headers and properly encode the file to be compatible with the mail RFCs.

 

[sleipnir214]

I have found PHPMailer to be uniformly excellent at sending complex emails.


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[sleipnir214]

To flesh out my answer more...

The problem is that SMTP is a 7-bit protocol and you're trying to send 8-bit data. You must use base-64 (or something similar) to encode your attachment, then place that attachment in a MIME content-block.

Don't make yourself crazy -- use some library to handle all this for you.


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[ingresman]

it might come later but you don't appear to be outputing the data you've read any where.
try an echo $data just before the close.
If that doesn't work look as fpassthru()

 

[jianbo]

Thanks All. Especially to Sleipnir214.
I tried PHPMail, it is very powerful and easy to use. When I finish my work, I am going to dive into its code to discover how mail works.