Send an Email Attachment with PHP

This work great, just fine for me! I test it... Thanks!

Code sends email (great) also includes pdf attachment... but when i try to open the pdf, it says: "Adobe Reader could not open xxxx.pdf because it is either not a supported file type or because the file has been damaged (for exampte, it was sent as an email attachment and wasn't correctly decoded)" ... any suggestions?
(adobe reader version 9)

Hmmmm. So Coll !!. I was in a very big problem. now every think ok. actualyi was using some other code. it some time working some time not working. i have to send attachment for my clients. so cool

Ignore my comments. Peter has the right idea. You need to define $message after $subject. This variable is what will be visible in the body of the e-mail. The "This is a multi-part message in MIME format" string in the code above isn't actually put in the body of the e-mail, but it appears that some sort of string needs to be there to make the MIME boundary happy.

In other words,


$message = "Visible body of e-mail";
$message = "PDF-This message will not be seen in the body\n\n".
"--{$mime_boundary}\n" .
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n" .
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n".
$message. "\n\n";

Looks like Peter ran into the same issue, but solved it a different way.

In the code snippet "Code: Add the MIME content", you probably need to get rid of the concatenation of $message to itself ...

"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n" .
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n" .
$message . "\n\n";

should be


"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n" .
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n";

One of my good friends/coding buddies caught this.

Great ressource, but I found an error. After the $subject= line, there should be a line, e.g.:

$message = "Here is your text message.";

Tusilla It should work. Well it does for me, The file size maybe an issue (coding) and form data. Might be easier to submit the PDF as XML which you can set sending options.

PHP Warning: fopen(/public_html/pdfs/mypdf.pdf) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream
This should be the path to your PDF file to correct this open sendmailattachment.php and edit on line 29

Warning: filesize mail transport has a max file size to send over the net.

Try correcting the line 29,30,31

This is great thank you for the step by step explanation too. I really needed this exact script for something I'm trying to do at work.

Any ideas on how to do this with a fillable PDF form? I want the user to download the form, fill it in, and then submit the form. The filled form will then be sent as an attachment to an email address. I am using adobe lifecycle to create the form.

Sir
I cannot send the messages.This section will be blank But i am able to send and receive attachments Why Please help me....

thanking you
raghavendra M

Thanks for this -- it worked like a charm. Next step is to learn how to do an html/plain text version -- but this is good enough for now!

I can't get this code to work for me... for some reason I get the following message/warning:
The email was sent.
PHP Warning: fopen(/public_html/pdfs/mypdf.pdf) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in D:\domains\nctventures.com\wwwroot\sendmailattachment.php on line 29 PHP Warning: filesize() [function.filesize]: stat failed for /public_html/pdfs/mypdf.pdf in D:\domains\nctventures.com\wwwroot\sendmailattachment.php on line 30 PHP Warning: fread(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in D:\domains\nctventures.com\wwwroot\sendmailattachment.php on line 30 PHP Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in D:\domains\nctventures.com\wwwroot\sendmailattachment.php on line 31

please help.

I can't get this code to work for me... for some reason I get the following message/warning:
The email was sent.
PHP Warning: fopen(/public_html/pdfs/mypdf.pdf) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in D:\domains\nctventures.com\wwwroot\sendmailattachment.php on line 29 PHP Warning: filesize() [function.filesize]: stat failed for /public_html/pdfs/mypdf.pdf in D:\domains\nctventures.com\wwwroot\sendmailattachment.php on line 30 PHP Warning: fread(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in D:\domains\nctventures.com\wwwroot\sendmailattachment.php on line 30 PHP Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in D:\domains\nctventures.com\wwwroot\sendmailattachment.php on line 31

please help.

Remove the { } around $fileattname and $fileatttype and it works fine :)

Code is working fine. But while sending pdf file i could not able to open the attachment and it says error message called document damaged or properly decoded

Thank u so much its working well...

Thank you so much,I've been trying for two day to send an attachment through php. This code works.

Thank you so much,I've been trying for two day to send an attachment through php. This code works.

The code works but doesnt post a static html..

I cannot download this code. Please help me.

How do I make this work in a mail form?

p.s.a to barnaby@waterpigs.co.uk

When I use this script on my local machine, everything works fine. When I put the script online, I get an 'attachmentless' email that prints the header like a message without an attachment . Is there specification for the server? I am sending a text file (it's actually a comma delimited file) and I am using a "text/plain" content-type.

... about my lasta question, already solved it.

If anyone wants to know, all you have to do is repeat the statemente:

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

without the "--{$mime_boundary}--\n" in the beggining.

Thanks.

Works Exellent.. thanks!!

One more question.. what if I need to attach more than one file?

Thanks again.

Would a word document be document/doc?

please send answer to bagman002@gmail.com

Would a word document be document/doc?

please send answer to bagman002@gmail.com

Perfect.. worked a treat

the file you are sending is supposed to be at the same map as the file with the mail function -- this works for me fine

Very easy to use, worked perfectly first time.

Really impressed and happy with it, thank you very much.

Spending 4hrs with various code, here i got the ultimate result.

Great script-works fine.

it won't work for me

I'm sorry to tell you that he wont word by me.. Please can somebody help me?

itis very simple script,thank for this.

Great Code, thanks a lot!!

2 slight changes I had to make were..
i) Remove last brace to prevent parse error.
ii) Change $to to email address only to get SMTP server to send.

Thanks again!!

The code works perfectly! THANK YOU! I've been struggling to get another person's code to work without any luck. I plugged this in and Voila! It worked the first time!

Thanks for this great resource!

easy script that you study a bit to fully understand. great work. i was lucky that i wanted to attach a pdf :P so i didnt have to change that much

thanks, thanks, thanks!!!

still i did not check it when i check it i will post my comment

your code doesn't work
it transmits and display pdf as sum dumped text
not as an attachement and does not make sense

how can we apply this setting to zip file? i mean application/pdf, what do we have to write for that ?

what im receiving is garbage, its the 7-bit ASCII conversion of the file. how do i solve this problem?

Thanks

thanks a lot - very helpful & accurate.

Cool!!! I really solution for me...

Thanks, really really thanks

This script is sexy... deffinatly wouldn't say no. Good work!

This worked perfectly . Thank you

Great.

How attach 2 or more pdf files

Thank you

it is very good tutorial and I get a good advantage from it
Thank you very much