Re: [PHP] Sending email w/ attachments
Hi, > ... Sorry, quoted wrong email. Oopsy... -- Richard Heyes HTML5 graphing: RGraph - www.rgraph.net (updated 8th August) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Sending email w/ attachments
On Aug 10, 2009, at 11:22 PM, Skip Evans wrote: Bastien Koert wrote: Use PHPMailer or one of the other classes available...makes life so much easier Kick Ass!!! Yes! Wow! Was that a breeze! That class rocks! Thanks tons, Bastien! I have to admit when I first saw your reply I thought, "Oh, man, another class to learn? But I know this is so close to working." I look at the sample and thought, "This looks easy," and had it working in no time. Big thanks again! Attachments were a big deal here and this makes it a breeze, AND it looks like multiple attachments would be no problem? Very cool! Skip -- Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut Yep, I created a wrapper for the class and pass in attachments as an array. Then just loop thru the array with the attachment code. It's very easy. Bastien Sent from my iPod -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Sending email w/ attachments
Hi, > Very cool! I'll take that as a compliment... :-) -- Richard Heyes HTML5 graphing: RGraph - www.rgraph.net (updated 8th August) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Sending email w/ attachments
Check out this link http://www.learnphp-tutorial.com/Email.cfm On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Skip Evans wrote: > Bastien Koert wrote: > >> >> Use PHPMailer or one of the other classes available...makes life >> so much easier >> >> > >Kick Ass!!! > > > Yes! Wow! Was that a breeze! That class rocks! > > Thanks tons, Bastien! > > I have to admit when I first saw your reply I thought, "Oh, man, another > class to learn? But I know this is so close to working." > > I look at the sample and thought, "This looks easy," and had it working in > no time. > > Big thanks again! > > Attachments were a big deal here and this makes it a breeze, AND it looks > like multiple attachments would be no problem? > > Very cool! > > > Skip > > -- > > Skip Evans > Big Sky Penguin, LLC > 503 S Baldwin St, #1 > Madison WI 53703 > 608.250.2720 > http://bigskypenguin.com > > Those of you who believe in > telekinesis, raise my hand. > -- Kurt Vonnegut > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Devendra Jadhav
Re: [PHP] Sending email w/ attachments
Bastien Koert wrote: Use PHPMailer or one of the other classes available...makes life so much easier Kick Ass!!! Yes! Wow! Was that a breeze! That class rocks! Thanks tons, Bastien! I have to admit when I first saw your reply I thought, "Oh, man, another class to learn? But I know this is so close to working." I look at the sample and thought, "This looks easy," and had it working in no time. Big thanks again! Attachments were a big deal here and this makes it a breeze, AND it looks like multiple attachments would be no problem? Very cool! Skip -- Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Sending email w/ attachments
Funny, I just had to figure out today how to nicely do HTML e-mails. I
ended up using PEAR:Mail_mime, and it worked pretty well. It will also
work for your attachments. I believe that PHP itself recommends it on
their mail() function reference page.
Adam.
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Skip Evans wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Trying to send emails with attachments, first try at this. And am trying to
> adapt sample code I found here:
>
> http://www.webcheatsheet.com/PHP/send_email_text_html_attachment.php
>
> Trying this:
>
> ($data contains the contents of the file; I've verified this)
>
> $hash = md5(date('r', time()));
> $attachment = chunk_split(base64_encode($data));
> $body_attachment = "--PHP-mixed-$hash--\n" .
> "Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name=\"$filename\"\r\n" .
> "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n" .
> "Content-Disposition: attachment\n".
> $attachment . "\n" .
> "--PHP-mixed-$hash--\n";
>
> I then append $attachment this to the end of the email body and send it on.
> I've verified it is reading the file properly, in this test case it is a
> place text file. But I've tried a PDF and that did not work as well.
>
> What happens is the email comes through and shows an attachment paper clip
> icon in Thunderbird, but when the email is clicked on the icon disappears
> and the email is empty, even the body is not there and no attachment either.
>
> A final question I have is does the content-type value need to change for
> text files, Word Docs, PDFs, Excel files, etc, or is there one type that can
> handle any file type?
>
> Any help would be great. I'm rather stuck and floundering here.
>
> Thanks,
> Skip
>
> --
>
> Skip Evans
> Big Sky Penguin, LLC
> 503 S Baldwin St, #1
> Madison WI 53703
> 608.250.2720
> http://bigskypenguin.com
>
> Those of you who believe in
> telekinesis, raise my hand.
> -- Kurt Vonnegut
>
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Re: [PHP] Sending email w/ attachments
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Skip Evans wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Trying to send emails with attachments, first try at this. And am trying to
> adapt sample code I found here:
>
> http://www.webcheatsheet.com/PHP/send_email_text_html_attachment.php
>
> Trying this:
>
> ($data contains the contents of the file; I've verified this)
>
> $hash = md5(date('r', time()));
> $attachment = chunk_split(base64_encode($data));
> $body_attachment = "--PHP-mixed-$hash--\n" .
> "Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name=\"$filename\"\r\n" .
> "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n" .
> "Content-Disposition: attachment\n".
> $attachment . "\n" .
> "--PHP-mixed-$hash--\n";
>
> I then append $attachment this to the end of the email body and send it on.
> I've verified it is reading the file properly, in this test case it is a
> place text file. But I've tried a PDF and that did not work as well.
>
> What happens is the email comes through and shows an attachment paper clip
> icon in Thunderbird, but when the email is clicked on the icon disappears
> and the email is empty, even the body is not there and no attachment either.
>
> A final question I have is does the content-type value need to change for
> text files, Word Docs, PDFs, Excel files, etc, or is there one type that can
> handle any file type?
>
> Any help would be great. I'm rather stuck and floundering here.
>
> Thanks,
> Skip
>
> --
>
> Skip Evans
> Big Sky Penguin, LLC
> 503 S Baldwin St, #1
> Madison WI 53703
> 608.250.2720
> http://bigskypenguin.com
>
> Those of you who believe in
> telekinesis, raise my hand.
> -- Kurt Vonnegut
>
> --
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>
>
Use PHPMailer or one of the other classes available...makes life
so much easier
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