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mail with attachments problem 1

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speedyrudolf

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Hi. I have the following code:
Code:
else if(file_exists("site".$timp.".zip"))
	{$file=fopen("site".$timp.".zip", "rb");
	$data=fread($file, filesize("site".$timp.".zip"));
	fclose($file);
	$data=chunk_split(base64_encode($data));
	$message.="Content-Type:{\"application/octet-stream\"};\n"."name=
\"site".$timp.".zip\"\n"."Content-Disposition: attachment;\n"."filename=
\"site".$timp.".zip\"\n"."Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n\n".$data."
\n\n";
	$message.="--{{$mime_boundary}\n";
	unset($data);
	unset($file);
	if(mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers))
		{header("Location: comanda_primita.html");}
The problem with it is, there is no attachment. Instead, at the end of the mail I get:

--==Multipart_Boundary_x1074db4782f70d7323f462617b73ab9dx
Content-Type:{"application/octet-stream"};
name="site1256892830.zip"
Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename="site1256892830.zip"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

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--{==Multipart_Boundary_x1074db4782f70d7323f462617b73ab9dx

Does anyone know what's wrong with the code? Thank you in advance.

PS: This script also sends multiple attachments (if there are multiple files)...But since it doesn't send even one attachment....
 
the easiest way to send attachments by mail is to use phpmailer.

on your code it does not look like you have closed the boundary properly. and i cannot comment on the rest of it as you have not provided the whole code snip.

remember that you need to provide a multipart/mixed header in the mail headers

and also to specify the boundary in the headers.
 
The code for the header:
Code:
$headers="From: $from";
$semi_rand=md5(time());
$mime_boundary="==Multipart_Boundary_x{$semi_rand}x";
$header.="\nMIME-Version: 1.0\n"."Content-Type: multipart/mixed;\n"."boundary=\"{$mime_boundary}\"";
And for the boundary...how should I close it? Thank you.
 
use \r\n in place of \n. some servers are picky.

and i note that line 4 is assigning the information to $header and not $header[red]s[/red]. that's probably the cause.

for closing the boundary use the same as for opening the boundary. your closing boundary seemed to have a curly brace within it.
 
Yep...That did it...Sort of...
Now the entire message is sent as an attachment, and the original attachment is in that attachment (don't really know how to describe it better). And Yahoo doesn't even see the "attachment"...But that may just be an error on their part, cause gmail sees it just fine.
Anyway...Thanks a lot...and if you help me figure this final part out...
 
i know it's nice to do these things on your own, but i really would recommend using phpmailer. i've never had a problem with it and the API is dead simple.
 
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