Muddy_Funster Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 Hi, is there a way to generate attachemtns for php's mail() function on the fly, without first saving a file. I have an html page stored in a variable and would like to send it as both the body of the mail and as an attachment in it (well actualy I would like to just send it in the body....). Can I push the variable as an attachement or do I need to generate a temp file from it first? Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muddy_Funster Posted January 13, 2012 Author Share Posted January 13, 2012 OK, I got the attachment working on the fly. Now however my message boddy has completly vanished from the mail. It's in the variable when I print_r($mail), which is the return from the following function, everything is in there, looking how I expect it should. Can anyone see what I've done wrong here? function buildMessage($fieldArray, $attachment, $bound){ $fname = $fieldArray[0][0].'.xml'; $at_con = chunk_split(base64_encode($attachment)); $mailBody = ""; $mailBody .= "--".$bound."\r\n"; $mailBody .= "Content-Type: application/xml name =\"$fname\"\r\n"; $mailBody .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 \r\n"; $mailBody .= "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$fname\""."\r\n"."\r\n"; $mailBody .= $at_con."\r\n"."\r\n"; $mailBody .= "--".$bound."\r\n"; $mailBody .="Content-Type: multipart/alternative \r\n"; $mailBody .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"; $mailBody .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit"."\r\n"; $mailBody .= "<html><body><br><center><h3>Names Changed to protect the guilty</h3></center><br>"; $mailBody .="<table border='1'><tr><th>Service Provider Name :</th><td>Not Here</td><th>Customer Ref Number:</th><td>{$fieldArray[0][0]}</td></tr>"; $mailBody .="<tr><th>Contact Name :</th><td>{$fieldArray[0][1]}</td><th>Customer :</th><td>{$fieldArray[0][2]}</td></tr>"; $mailBody .="<tr><th>Contact No :</th><td>{$fieldArray[0][3]}</td><th>Target ID :</th><td>{$fieldArray[0][4]}</td></tr>"; $mailBody .= "<tr><th>Query Date :</th><td>{$fieldArray[0][5]}</td><th>Job Date :</th><td>{$fieldArray[0][6]}</td></tr>"; $mailBody .= "<tr><td colspan='4'>QUERY TYPE :</td></tr>"; $mailBody .= "<tr><th>QUERY INFO :</th><td colspan='3'>{$fieldArray[0][7]}</td></tr>"; $mailBody .= "<tr><td colspan='4'>DETAILS OF THE ISSUE :</td></tr>"; $mailBody .= "<tr><td colspan='4'>{$fieldArray[0][8]}</td></tr>"; $mailBody .= "</table><p>Please do not reply to this email unless there is a technical issue.</p></body></html>"."\r\n"."\r\n" ; $mailBody .= "--".$bound."--"."\r\n"."\r\n"; return $mailBody; The attachment, from, reply-to and subject are all coming through spot on, but the body of the message is empty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zane Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Where is the code where you are actually mail()ing this information? Furthermore, your headers (Subject, From, Attachment, etc) should not be within the body, they should be in a variable of their own. For instance, for your current code. $mailBody = null; $mailHeaders = null; //Headers $mailHeaders .= "--".$bound."\r\n"; $mailHeaders .= "Content-Type: application/xml name =\"$fname\"\r\n"; $mailHeaders .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 \r\n"; $mailHeaders .= "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$fname\""."\r\n"."\r\n"; $mailHeaders .= $at_con."\r\n"."\r\n"; $mailHeaders .= "--".$bound."\r\n"; $mailHeaders .="Content-Type: multipart/alternative \r\n"; $mailHeaders .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"; $mailHeaders .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit"."\r\n"; // Body $mailBody .= " Names Changed to protect the guilty "; $mailBody .="</pre> <table border="'1'">Service Provider Name :Not HereCustomer Ref Number:{$fieldArray[0][0]}"; $mailBody .="Contact Name :{$fieldArray[0][1]}Customer :{$fieldArray[0][2]}"; $mailBody .="Contact No :{$fieldArray[0][3]}Target ID :{$fieldArray[0][4]}"; $mailBody .= "Query Date :{$fieldArray[0][5]}Job Date :{$fieldArray[0][6]}"; $mailBody .= "QUERY TYPE :"; $mailBody .= "QUERY INFO :{$fieldArray[0][7]}"; $mailBody .= "DETAILS OF THE ISSUE :"; $mailBody .= "{$fieldArray[0][8]}"; $mailBody .= "</table> <p>Please do not reply to this email unless there is a technical issue.</p>"."\r\n"."\r\n" ;<br>$mailBody .= "--".$bound."--"."\r\n"."\r\n Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muddy_Funster Posted January 13, 2012 Author Share Posted January 13, 2012 here's the headers and the actual mail() calll function postMail($message, $bound){ $to = "user@your.net"; $subject = 'Query Management Sheet'; $headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n"; $headers .= 'Content-type: multipart/related; boundary="'.$bound.'"'."\r\n"; $headers .= 'From: Company Name' . "\r\n"; $headers .= 'Reply-To: user@your.net'. "\r\n"; mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers); } and here is the function calls, just in case $bound = md5(time()); $mail = buildMessage($res, $xmlFile, $bound); print_r($mail); postMail($mail, $bound); Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muddy_Funster Posted January 13, 2012 Author Share Posted January 13, 2012 so the attachment needs to go in the headers...I'm gonna give that a shot just now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muddy_Funster Posted January 13, 2012 Author Share Posted January 13, 2012 didn't help. Still nothing in the body of the mail, and the attachment is now remaining encoded even after reciept, where before it was openable (this could be due to the encode not peing parsed if it doesn't work as part of the body though - unsure on that one) is there a reason for nulling the mail variables at the top of your code? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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