Email attachments not working

[Nodral]

Hi all

 

I'm trying to send an automated email of a zip file.  However it seems to be just reading the files into the body of the mail rather than attaching a single zip archive containing several files.

 

I receive the mails, but I effectively want a blank message body with a zip file attached.

 

Please see code below, any ideas why this is not working.  I'm a bit of a newbie and never used this before so any pointers would be good.

 

<?php
//Send Zip file as attachment

//Set Email and attachment details
$to = "me@123.com";
$from = "Visionnet <DO_NOT_REPLY>";
$subject = "Subject";
$message = "Please see attached file";
$fileatt = "wiki_zip.zip";
$fileatt_type = "application/zip";
$fileatt_name = "wiki_zip.zip";


//Read in the attachment
$file=fopen($fileatt,'rb');
$data=fread($file,filesize( $fileatt));
fclose($file);

//Add the MIME content

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

// Add the Headers for file attachment

$headers .= "\nMIME-Version: 1.0\n" . 
		"Content-Type: multipart/mixed;\n" . 
		" boundary=\"{$mime_boundary}\"";
$message = "This is a multipart message in MIME format.\n\n" . "--{$mime_boundary}\n" . "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n" . "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n" . $message . "\n\n";

//Base64 encode file data
$data = chunk_split(base64_encode($data));

//Add attachment to message

$message .= "--{mime_boundary}\n" . 
		"Content-Type: {$fileatt_type};\n" . 
		" name=\"{$fileatt_name}\"\n" . 
		"Content-Disposition: attachment;\n" . 
		" filename=\"{$fileatt_name}\"\n" . 
		"Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n\n" . 
		$data . "\n\n" . 
		"--{$mime_boundary}--\n";

//Send message
$ok = @mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers, "$from");
if($ok)
{
echo "mail sent";
}
else
{
echo "mail failed";
}

?>

[Rifts]

http://www.geekology.co.za/blog/2009/06/sending-emails-with-attachments-using-php-mail-function/

[BlueSkyIS]

i don't like messing with all that email attachments base 64 encoding whatchamacallit stuff. of course, it's nice to know how it works, but I suggest that you use an existing class to handle all the ugly stuff. i use rmail:

 

http://www.phpguru.org/downloads/Rmail/Rmail%20for%20PHP/

 

There is probably newer, but I can't imagine easier. for instance, here is example code to attach a file:

 

$mail->addAttachment(new fileAttachment('example.zip'));

 

wow! no content disposition mime boundary type whatisthat?

 

[Nodral]

Cheers Guys

 

If only I'd known about Rmail about 6 hours ago!!! lol

 

Works a treat!!