Send attachments with PHP Mail()?

Question

I need to send a pdf with mail, is it possible?

$to = "xxx";
$subject = "Subject" ;
$message = 'Example message with <b>html</b>';
$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: xxx <xxx>' . "\r\n";
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);

What am I missing?

Answer 1

I agree with @MihaiIorga in the comments – use the PHPMailer script. You sound like you're rejecting it because you want the easier option. Trust me, PHPMailer is the easier option by a very large margin compared to trying to do it yourself with PHP's built-in mail() function. PHP's mail() function really isn't very good.

To use PHPMailer:

• Download the PHPMailer script from here: http://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer
• Extract the archive and copy the script's folder to a convenient place in your project.
• Include the main script file -- require_once('path/to/file/class.phpmailer.php');

Now, sending emails with attachments goes from being insanely difficult to incredibly easy:

use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception;

$email = new PHPMailer();
$email->SetFrom('you@example.com', 'Your Name'); //Name is optional
$email->Subject   = 'Message Subject';
$email->Body      = $bodytext;
$email->AddAddress( 'destinationaddress@example.com' );

$file_to_attach = 'PATH_OF_YOUR_FILE_HERE';

$email->AddAttachment( $file_to_attach , 'NameOfFile.pdf' );

return $email->Send();

It's just that one line $email->AddAttachment(); -- you couldn't ask for any easier.

If you do it with PHP's mail() function, you'll be writing stacks of code, and you'll probably have lots of really difficult to find bugs.

Answer 2

You can try using the following code:

    $filename = 'myfile';
    $path = 'your path goes here';
    $file = $path . "/" . $filename;

    $mailto = 'mail@mail.com';
    $subject = 'Subject';
    $message = 'My message';

    $content = file_get_contents($file);
    $content = chunk_split(base64_encode($content));

    // a random hash will be necessary to send mixed content
    $separator = md5(time());

    // carriage return type (RFC)
    $eol = "\r\n";

    // main header (multipart mandatory)
    $headers = "From: name <test@test.com>" . $eol;
    $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0" . $eol;
    $headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"" . $separator . "\"" . $eol;
    $headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit" . $eol;
    $headers .= "This is a MIME encoded message." . $eol;

    // message
    $body = "--" . $separator . $eol;
    $body .= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"" . $eol;
    $body .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit" . $eol;
    $body .= $message . $eol;

    // attachment
    $body .= "--" . $separator . $eol;
    $body .= "Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name=\"" . $filename . "\"" . $eol;
    $body .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64" . $eol;
    $body .= "Content-Disposition: attachment" . $eol;
    $body .= $content . $eol;
    $body .= "--" . $separator . "--";

    //SEND Mail
    if (mail($mailto, $subject, $body, $headers)) {
        echo "mail send ... OK"; // or use booleans here
    } else {
        echo "mail send ... ERROR!";
        print_r( error_get_last() );
    }

Edit 14-June-2018

for more readability in some of email provider use

$body .= $eol . $message . $eol . $eol; and $body .= $eol . $content . $eol . $eol;

Answer 3

For PHP 5.5.27 security update

$file = $path.$filename;
$content = file_get_contents( $file);
$content = chunk_split(base64_encode($content));
$uid = md5(uniqid(time()));
$file_name = basename($file);

// header
$header = "From: ".$from_name." <".$from_mail.">\r\n";
$header .= "Reply-To: ".$replyto."\r\n";
$header .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$header .= "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"".$uid."\"\r\n\r\n";

// message & attachment
$nmessage = "--".$uid."\r\n";
$nmessage .= "Content-type:text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$nmessage .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\r\n\r\n";
$nmessage .= $message."\r\n\r\n";
$nmessage .= "--".$uid."\r\n";
$nmessage .= "Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name=\"".$filename."\"\r\n";
$nmessage .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n";
$nmessage .= "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"".$file_name."\"\r\n\r\n";
$nmessage .= $content."\r\n\r\n";
$nmessage .= "--".$uid."--";

if (mail($mailto, $subject, $nmessage, $header)) {
    return true; // Or do something here
} else {
  return false;
}

Answer 4

Swiftmailer is another easy-to-use script that automatically protects against email injection and makes attachments a breeze. I also strongly discourage using PHP's built-in mail() function.

To use:

• Download Swiftmailer, and place the lib folder in your project
• Include the main file using require_once 'lib/swift_required.php';

Now add the code when you need to mail:

// Create the message
$message = Swift_Message::newInstance()
    ->setSubject('Your subject')
    ->setFrom(array('webmaster@mysite.com' => 'Web Master'))
    ->setTo(array('receiver@example.com'))
    ->setBody('Here is the message itself')
    ->attach(Swift_Attachment::fromPath('myPDF.pdf'));

//send the message          
$mailer->send($message);

More information and options can be found in the Swiftmailer Docs.

Answer 5

To send an email with attachment we need to use the multipart/mixed MIME type that specifies that mixed types will be included in the email. Moreover, we want to use multipart/alternative MIME type to send both plain-text and HTML version of the email.Have a look at the example:

<?php 
//define the receiver of the email 
$to = 'youraddress@example.com'; 
//define the subject of the email 
$subject = 'Test email with attachment'; 
//create a boundary string. It must be unique 
//so we use the MD5 algorithm to generate a random hash 
$random_hash = md5(date('r', time())); 
//define the headers we want passed. Note that they are separated with \r\n 
$headers = "From: webmaster@example.com\r\nReply-To: webmaster@example.com"; 
//add boundary string and mime type specification 
$headers .= "\r\nContent-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"PHP-mixed-".$random_hash."\""; 
//read the atachment file contents into a string,
//encode it with MIME base64,
//and split it into smaller chunks
$attachment = chunk_split(base64_encode(file_get_contents('attachment.zip'))); 
//define the body of the message. 
ob_start(); //Turn on output buffering 
?> 
--PHP-mixed-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>  
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>" 

--PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>  
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Hello World!!! 
This is simple text email message. 

--PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>  
Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" 
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

<h2>Hello World!</h2> 
<p>This is something with <b>HTML</b> formatting.</p> 

--PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>-- 

--PHP-mixed-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>  
Content-Type: application/zip; name="attachment.zip"  
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64  
Content-Disposition: attachment  

<?php echo $attachment; ?> 
--PHP-mixed-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>-- 

<?php 
//copy current buffer contents into $message variable and delete current output buffer 
$message = ob_get_clean(); 
//send the email 
$mail_sent = @mail( $to, $subject, $message, $headers ); 
//if the message is sent successfully print "Mail sent". Otherwise print "Mail failed" 
echo $mail_sent ? "Mail sent" : "Mail failed"; 
?>

As you can see, sending an email with attachment is easy to accomplish. In the preceding example we have multipart/mixed MIME type, and inside it we have multipart/alternative MIME type that specifies two versions of the email. To include an attachment to our message, we read the data from the specified file into a string, encode it with base64, split it in smaller chunks to make sure that it matches the MIME specifications and then include it as an attachment.

Taken from here.

Answer 6

This works for me. It also attaches multiple attachments too. easily

<?php

if ($_POST && isset($_FILES['file'])) {
    $recipient_email = "recipient@yourmail.com"; //recepient
    $from_email = "info@your_domain.com"; //from email using site domain.
    $subject = "Attachment email from your website!"; //email subject line

    $sender_name = filter_var($_POST["s_name"], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING); //capture sender name
    $sender_email = filter_var($_POST["s_email"], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING); //capture sender email
    $sender_message = filter_var($_POST["s_message"], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING); //capture message
    $attachments = $_FILES['file'];

    //php validation
    if (strlen($sender_name) < 4) {
        die('Name is too short or empty');
    }
    if (!filter_var($sender_email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) {
        die('Invalid email');
    }
    if (strlen($sender_message) < 4) {
        die('Too short message! Please enter something');
    }

    $file_count = count($attachments['name']); //count total files attached
    $boundary = md5("specialToken$4332"); // boundary token to be used

    if ($file_count > 0) { //if attachment exists
        //header
        $headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
        $headers .= "From:" . $from_email . "\r\n";
        $headers .= "Reply-To: " . $sender_email . "" . "\r\n";
        $headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary = $boundary\r\n\r\n";

        //message text
        $body = "--$boundary\r\n";
        $body .= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n";
        $body .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n\r\n";
        $body .= chunk_split(base64_encode($sender_message));

        //attachments
        for ($x = 0; $x < $file_count; $x++) {
            if (!empty($attachments['name'][$x])) {

                if ($attachments['error'][$x] > 0) { //exit script and output error if we encounter any
                    $mymsg = array(
                        1 => "The uploaded file exceeds the upload_max_filesize directive in php.ini",
                        2 => "The uploaded file exceeds the MAX_FILE_SIZE directive that was specified in the HTML form",
                        3 => "The uploaded file was only partially uploaded",
                        4 => "No file was uploaded",
                        6 => "Missing a temporary folder");
                    die($mymsg[$attachments['error'][$x]]);
                }

                //get file info
                $file_name = $attachments['name'][$x];
                $file_size = $attachments['size'][$x];
                $file_type = $attachments['type'][$x];

                //read file 
                $handle = fopen($attachments['tmp_name'][$x], "r");
                $content = fread($handle, $file_size);
                fclose($handle);
                $encoded_content = chunk_split(base64_encode($content)); //split into smaller chunks (RFC 2045)

                $body .= "--$boundary\r\n";
                $body .= "Content-Type: $file_type; name=" . $file_name . "\r\n";
                $body .= "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=" . $file_name . "\r\n";
                $body .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n";
                $body .= "X-Attachment-Id: " . rand(1000, 99999) . "\r\n\r\n";
                $body .= $encoded_content;
            }
        }
    } else { //send plain email otherwise
        $headers = "From:" . $from_email . "\r\n" .
                "Reply-To: " . $sender_email . "\n" .
                "X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion();
        $body = $sender_message;
    }

    $sentMail = @mail($recipient_email, $subject, $body, $headers);
    if ($sentMail) { //output success or failure messages
        die('Thank you for your email');
    } else {
        die('Could not send mail! Please check your PHP mail configuration.');
    }
}
?>

Answer 7

After struggling for a while with badly formatted attachments, this is the code I used:

$email = new PHPMailer();
$email->From      = 'from@somedomain.com';
$email->FromName  = 'FromName';
$email->Subject   = 'Subject';
$email->Body      = 'Body';
$email->AddAddress( 'to@somedomain.com' );
$email->AddAttachment( "/path/to/filename.ext" , "filename.ext", 'base64', 'application/octet-stream' );
$email->Send();

Answer 8

None of the above answers worked for me due to their specified attachment format (application/octet-stream). Use application/pdf for best results with PDF files.

<?php

// just edit these 
$to          = "email1@domain.com, email2@domain.com"; // addresses to email pdf to
$from        = "sent_from@domain.com"; // address message is sent from
$subject     = "Your PDF email subject"; // email subject
$body        = "<p>The PDF is attached.</p>"; // email body
$pdfLocation = "./your-pdf.pdf"; // file location
$pdfName     = "pdf-file.pdf"; // pdf file name recipient will get
$filetype    = "application/pdf"; // type

// creates headers and mime boundary
$eol = PHP_EOL;
$semi_rand     = md5(time());
$mime_boundary = "==Multipart_Boundary_$semi_rand";
$headers       = "From: $from$eolMIME-Version: 1.0$eol" .
    "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;$eol boundary=\"$mime_boundary\"";

// add html message body
$message = "--$mime_boundary$eol" .
    "Content-Type: text/html; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"$eol" .
    "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit$eol$eol$body$eol";

// fetches pdf
$file = fopen($pdfLocation, 'rb');
$data = fread($file, filesize($pdfLocation));
fclose($file);
$pdf = chunk_split(base64_encode($data));

// attaches pdf to email
$message .= "--$mime_boundary$eol" .
    "Content-Type: $filetype;$eol name=\"$pdfName\"$eol" .
    "Content-Disposition: attachment;$eol filename=\"$pdfName\"$eol" .
    "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64$eol$eol$pdf$eol--$mime_boundary--";

// Sends the email
if(mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers)) {
    echo "The email was sent.";
}
else {
    echo "There was an error sending the mail.";
}

Answer 9

Working Concept :

if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
    $mailto = $_POST["mailTo"];
    $from_mail = $_POST["fromEmail"];
    $replyto = $_POST["fromEmail"];
    $from_name = $_POST["fromName"];
    $message = $_POST["message"];
    $subject = $_POST["subject"];

    $filename = $_FILES["fileAttach"]["name"];
    $content = chunk_split(base64_encode(file_get_contents($_FILES["fileAttach"]["tmp_name"])));

    $uid = md5(uniqid(time()));
    $name = basename($file);
    $header = "From: " . $from_name . " <" . $from_mail . ">\r\n";
    $header .= "Reply-To: " . $replyto . "\r\n";

    $header .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
    $header .= "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"" . $uid . "\"\r\n\r\n";
    $header .= "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\r\n";
    $header .= "--" . $uid . "\r\n";

// You add html "Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8\n" or for Text "Content-type:text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n" by I.khan
    $header .= "Content-type:text/html; charset=utf-8\n";
    $header .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\r\n\r\n";

// User Message you can add HTML if You Selected HTML content
    $header .= "<div style='color: red'>" . $message . "</div>\r\n\r\n";

    $header .= "--" . $uid . "\r\n";
    $header .= "Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name=\"" . $filename . "\"\r\n"; // use different content types here
    $header .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n";
    $header .= "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"" . $filename . "\"\r\n\r\n"; // For Attachment
    $header .= $content . "\r\n\r\n";
    $header .= "--" . $uid . "--";
    if (mail($mailto, $subject, "", $header)) {
        echo "<script>alert('Success');</script>"; // or use booleans here
    } else {
        echo "<script>alert('Failed');</script>";
    }
}

Answer 10

HTML Code:

<form enctype="multipart/form-data" method="POST" action=""> 
    <label>Your Name <input type="text" name="sender_name" /> </label> 
    <label>Your Email <input type="email" name="sender_email" /> </label> 
    <label>Your Contact Number <input type="tel" name="contactnumber" /> </label>
    <label>Subject <input type="text" name="subject" /> </label> 
    <label>Message <textarea name="description"></textarea> </label> 
    <label>Attachment <input type="file" name="attachment" /></label> 
    <label><input type="submit" name="button" value="Submit" /></label> 
</form> 

PHP Code:

<?php
if($_POST['button']){
{
    //Server Variables
    $server_name = "Your Name";
    $server_mail = "your_mail@domain.com";

    //Name Attributes of HTML FORM
    $sender_email = "sender_email";
    $sender_name = "sender_name";
    $contact = "contactnumber";
    $mail_subject = "subject";
    $input_file = "attachment";
    $message = "description";

    //Fetching HTML Values
    $sender_name = $_POST[$sender_name];
    $sender_mail = $_POST[$sender_email];
    $message = $_POST[$message];
    $contact= $_POST[$contact];
    $mail_subject = $_POST[$mail_subject];

    //Checking if File is uploaded
    if(isset($_FILES[$input_file])) 
    { 
        //Main Content
        $main_subject = "Subject seen on server's mail";
        $main_body = "Hello $server_name,<br><br> 
        $sender_name ,contacted you through your website and the details are as below: <br><br> 
        Name : $sender_name <br> 
        Contact Number : $contact <br> 
        Email : $sender_mail <br> 
        Subject : $mail_subject <br> 
        Message : $message.";

        //Reply Content
        $reply_subject = "Subject seen on sender's mail";
        $reply_body = "Hello $sender_name,<br> 
        \t Thank you for filling the contact form. We will revert back to you shortly.<br><br>
        This is an auto generated mail sent from our Mail Server.<br>
        Please do not reply to this mail.<br>
        Regards<br>
        $server_name";

//#############################DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE#############################
        $filename= $_FILES[$input_file]['name'];
        $file = chunk_split(base64_encode(file_get_contents($_FILES[$input_file]['tmp_name'])));
        $uid = md5(uniqid(time()));
        //Sending mail to Server
        $retval = mail($server_mail, $main_subject, "--$uid\r\nContent-type:text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\nContent-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\r\n\r\n $main_body \r\n\r\n--$uid\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream; name=\"$filename\"\r\nContent-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\nContent-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$filename\"\r\n\r\n$file\r\n\r\n--$uid--", "From: $sender_name <$sender_mail>\r\nReply-To: $sender_mail\r\nMIME-Version: 1.0\r\nContent-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"$uid\"\r\n\r\n");
        //Sending mail to Sender
        $retval = mail($sender_mail, $reply_subject, $reply_body , "From: $server_name<$server_mail>\r\nMIME-Version: 1.0\r\nContent-type: text/html\r\n");
//#############################DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING ABOVE THIS LINE#############################

        //Output
        if ($retval == true) {
            echo "Message sent successfully...";
            echo "<script>window.location.replace('index.html');</script>";
        } else {
            echo "Error<br>";
            echo "Message could not be sent...Try again later";
            echo "<script>window.location.replace('index.html');</script>";
        }
    }else{
        echo "Error<br>";
        echo "File Not Found";
    }
}else{
    echo "Error<br>";
    echo "Unauthorised Access";
}

Answer 11

I ended up writing my own email sending/encoding function. This has worked well for me for sending PDF attachments. I have not used the other features in production.

Note: Despite the spec being quite emphatic that you must use \r\n to separate headers, I found it only worked when I used PHP_EOL. I have only tested this on Linux. YMMV

<?php
# $args must be an associative array
#     required keys: from, to, body
#          body can be a string or a [tree of] associative arrays. See examples below
#     optional keys: subject, reply_to, cc, bcc
# EXAMPLES:
#    # text-only email:
#    email2(array(
#        'from' => 'noreply@foo.com',
#        'to' => 'jason@jasonwoof.com',
#        'subject' => 'test',
#        # body will be text/plain because we're passing a string that doesn't start with '<'
#        'body' => 'Hi, testing 1 2 3',
#    ));
#
#    # html-only email
#    email2(array(
#        'from' => 'noreply@foo.com',
#        'to' => 'jason@jasonwoof.com',
#        'subject' => 'test',
#        # body will be text/html because we're passing a string that starts with '<'
#        'body' => '<h1>Hi!</h1>I like <a href="http://cheese.com">cheese</a>',
#    ));
#
#    # text-only email (explicitly, in case first character is dynamic or something)
#    email2(array(
#        'from' => 'noreply@foo.com',
#        'to' => 'jason@jasonwoof.com',
#        'subject' => 'test',
#        # body will be text/plain because we're passing a string that doesn't start with '<'
#        'body' => array(
#            'type' => 'text',
#            'body' => $message_text,
#        )
#    ));
#
#    # email with text and html alternatives (auto-detected mime types)
#    email2(array(
#        'from' => 'noreply@foo.com',
#        'to' => 'jason@jasonwoof.com',
#        'subject' => 'test',
#        'body' => array(
#            'type' => 'alternatives',
#            'body' => array(
#                "Hi!\n\nI like cheese",
#                '<h1>Hi!</h1><p>I like <a href="http://cheese.com">cheese</a></p>',
#            )
#        )
#    ));
#
#    # email with text and html alternatives (explicit types)
#    email2(array(
#        'from' => 'noreply@foo.com',
#        'to' => 'jason@jasonwoof.com',
#        'subject' => 'test',
#        'body' => array(
#            'type' => 'alternatives',
#            'body' => array(
#                array(
#                    'type' => 'text',
#                    'body' => "Hi!\n\nI like cheese",
#                ),
#                array(
#                    'type' => 'html',
#                    'body' => '<h1>Hi!</h1><p>I like cheese</p>',
#                ),
#            )
#        )
#    ));
#
#    # email with an attachment
#    email2(array(
#        'from' => 'noreply@foo.com',
#        'to' => 'jason@jasonwoof.com',
#        'subject' => 'test',
#        'body' => array(
#            'type' => 'mixed',
#            'body' => array(
#                "Hi!\n\nCheck out this (inline) image",
#                array(
#                    'type' => 'image/png',
#                    'disposition' => 'inline',
#                    'body' => $image_data, # raw file contents
#                ),
#                "Hi!\n\nAnd here's an attachment",
#                array(
#                    'type' => 'application/pdf; name="attachment.pdf"',
#                    'disposition' => 'attachment; filename="attachment.pdf"',
#                    'body' => $pdf_data, # raw file contents
#                ),
#                "Or you can use shorthand:",
#                array(
#                    'type' => 'application/pdf',
#                    'attachment' => 'attachment.pdf', # name for client (not data source)
#                    'body' => $pdf_data, # raw file contents
#                ),
#            )
#        )
#    ))
function email2($args) {
    if (!isset($args['from'])) { return 1; }
    $from = $args['from'];
    if (!isset($args['to'])) { return 2; }
    $to = $args['to'];
    $subject = isset($args['subject']) ? $args['subject'] : '';
    $reply_to = isset($args['reply_to']) ? $args['reply_to'] : '';
    $cc = isset($args['cc']) ? $args['cc'] : '';
    $bcc = isset($args['bcc']) ? $args['bcc'] : '';

    #FIXME should allow many more characters here (and do Q encoding)
    $subject = isset($args['subject']) ? $args['subject'] : '';
    $subject = preg_replace("|[^a-z0-9 _/#'.:&,-]|i", '_', $subject);

    $headers = "From: $from";
    if($reply_to) {
        $headers .= PHP_EOL . "Reply-To: $reply_to";
    }
    if($cc) {
        $headers .= PHP_EOL . "CC: $cc";
    }
    if($bcc) {
        $headers .= PHP_EOL . "BCC: $bcc";
    }

    $r = email2_helper($args['body']);
    $headers .= PHP_EOL . $r[0];
    $body = $r[1];

    if (mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers)) {
        return 0;
    } else {
        return 5;
    }
}

function email2_helper($body, $top = true) {
    if (is_string($body)) {
        if (substr($body, 0, 1) == '<') {
            return email2_helper(array('type' => 'html', 'body' => $body), $top);
        } else {
            return email2_helper(array('type' => 'text', 'body' => $body), $top);
        }
    }
    # now we can assume $body is an associative array
    # defaults:
    $type = 'application/octet-stream';
    $mime = false;
    $boundary = null;
    $disposition = null;
    $charset = false;
    # process 'type' first, because it sets defaults for others
    if (isset($body['type'])) {
        $type = $body['type'];
        if ($type === 'text') {
            $type = 'text/plain';
            $charset = true;
        } elseif ($type === 'html') {
            $type = 'text/html';
            $charset = true;
        } elseif ($type === 'alternative' || $type === 'alternatives') {
            $mime = true;
            $type = 'multipart/alternative';
        } elseif ($type === 'mixed') {
            $mime = true;
            $type = 'multipart/mixed';
        }
    }
    if (isset($body['disposition'])) {
        $disposition = $body['disposition'];
    }
    if (isset($body['attachment'])) {
        if ($disposition == null) {
            $disposition = 'attachment';
        }
        $disposition .= "; filename=\"{$body['attachment']}\"";
        $type .= "; name=\"{$body['attachment']}\"";
    }
    # make headers
    $headers = array();
    if ($top && $mime) {
        $headers[] = 'MIME-Version: 1.0';
    }
    if ($mime) {
        $boundary = md5('5sd^%Ca)~aAfF0=4mIN' . rand() . rand());
        $type .= "; boundary=$boundary";
    }
    if ($charset) {
        $type .= '; charset=' . (isset($body['charset']) ? $body['charset'] : 'UTF-8');
    }
    $headers[] = "Content-Type: $type";
    if ($disposition !== null) {
        $headers[] = "Content-Disposition: {$disposition}";
    }

    $data = '';
    # return array, first el is headers, 2nd is body (php's mail() needs them separate)
    if ($mime) {
        foreach ($body['body'] as $sub_body) {
            $data .= "--$boundary" . PHP_EOL;
            $r = email2_helper($sub_body, false);
            $data .= $r[0] . PHP_EOL . PHP_EOL; # headers
            $data .= $r[1] . PHP_EOL . PHP_EOL; # body
        }
        $data .= "--$boundary--";
    } else {
        if(preg_match('/[^\x09\x0A\x0D\x20-\x7E]/', $body['body'])) {
            $headers[] = "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64";
            $data .= chunk_split(base64_encode($body['body']));
        } else {
            $data .= $body['body'];
        }
    }
    return array(join(PHP_EOL, $headers), $data);
}

Answer 12

            $to = "to@gmail.com";
            $subject = "Subject Of The Mail";
            $message = "Hi there,<br/><br/>This is my message.<br><br>";

            $headers = "From: From-Name<from@gmail.com>";
// boundary
            $semi_rand = md5(time());
            $mime_boundary = "==Multipart_Boundary_x{$semi_rand}x";

// headers for attachment
            $headers .= "\nMIME-Version: 1.0\n" . "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;\n" . " boundary=\"{$mime_boundary}\"";

// multipart boundary
            $message = "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n\n" . "--{$mime_boundary}\n" . "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\"\n" . "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n" . $message . "\n\n";

                $message .= "--{$mime_boundary}\n";
                $filepath = 'uploads/'.$_FILES['image']['name'];
                move_uploaded_file($_FILES['image']['tmp_name'], $filepath); //upload the file
                $filename = $_FILES['image']['name'];
                $file = fopen($filepath, "rb");
                $data = fread($file, filesize($filepath));
                fclose($file);
                $data = chunk_split(base64_encode($data));
                $message .= "Content-Type: {\"application/octet-stream\"};\n" . " name=\"$filename\"\n" .
                        "Content-Disposition: attachment;\n" . " filename=\"$filename\"\n" .
                        "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n\n" . $data . "\n\n";
                $message .= "--{$mime_boundary}\n";

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

Answer 13

you can send regular or attachment emails using this class that I created.

here is the link with examples of how to use it.

https://github.com/Nerdtrix/EZMAIL

Answer 14

ContactRequestSubmitted
Name:'.$name.'
Email:'.$email.'
Subject:'.$subject.'
Message:
'.$message.'
';$headers="From:$fromName"."";if(!empty($uploadedFile)&&file_exists($uploadedFile)){$semi_rand=md5(time());$mime_boundary="==Multipart_Boundary_x{$semi_rand}x";$headers.="\nMIME-Version:1.0\n"."Content-Type:multipart/mixed;\n"."boundary=\"{$mime_boundary}\"";$message="--{$mime_boundary}\n"."Content-Type:text/html;charset=\"UTF-8\"\n"."Content-Transfer-Encoding:7bit\n\n".$htmlContent."\n\n";if(is_file($uploadedFile)){$message.="--{$mime_boundary}\n";$fp=@fopen($uploadedFile,"rb");$data=@fread($fp,filesize($uploadedFile));@fclose($fp);$data=chunk_split(base64_encode($data));$message.="Content-Type:application/octet-stream;name=\"".basename($uploadedFile)."\"\n"."Content-Description:".basename($uploadedFile)."\n"."Content-Disposition:attachment;\n"."filename=\"".basename($uploadedFile)."\";size=".filesize($uploadedFile).";\n"."Content-Transfer-Encoding:base64\n\n".$data."\n\n";}$message.="--{$mime_boundary}--";$returnpath="-f".$email;$mail=mail($toEmail,$emailSubject,$message,$headers,$returnpath);@unlink($uploadedFile);}else{$headers.="\r\n"."MIME-Version:1.0";$headers.="\r\n"."Content-type:text/html;charset=UTF-8";$mail=mail($toEmail,$emailSubject,$htmlContent,$headers);}if($mail){$statusMsg='Yourcontactrequesthasbeensubmittedsuccessfully!';$msgClass='succdiv';$postData='';}else{$statusMsg='Yourcontactrequestsubmissionfailed,pleasetryagain.';}}}}else{$statusMsg='Pleasefillallthefields.';}}?>">"placeholder="Name"required="">"placeholder="Emailaddress"required="">"placeholder="Subject"required="">[Source][1]

https://www.findinall.com/blog/how-to-test-mail-and-send-attachment-in-mail/

Answer 15

100% working Concept to send email with attachment in php :

if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
  extract($_POST);
  require_once('mail/class.phpmailer.php');

  $subject = "$name Applied For - $position";
  $email_message = "<div>Thanks for Applying ....</div> ";

  $mail = new PHPMailer;
  $mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP
  $mail->Host = "mail.companyname.com"; // SMTP server
  $mail->SMTPDebug = 0;
  $mail->SMTPAuth = true;
  $mail->SMTPSecure = "ssl";
  $mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com";
  $mail->Port = 465;
  $mail->IsHTML(true);
  $mail->Username = "info@companyname.com";  // GMAIL username
  $mail->Password = "mailPassword";          // GMAIL password

  $mail->SetFrom('info@companyname.com', 'new application submitted');
  $mail->AddReplyTo("name@yourdomain.com","First Last");
  $mail->Subject = "your subject";

  $mail->AltBody = "To view the message, please use an HTML compatible email viewer!"; // optional, comment out and test

  $mail->MsgHTML($email_message);

  $address = 'info@companyname.com';
  $mail->AddAddress($address, "companyname");

  $mail->AddAttachment($_FILES['file']['tmp_name'], $_FILES['file']['name']);      // attachment

  if (!$mail->Send()) {
    /* Error */
    echo 'Message not Sent! Email at info@companyname.com';
  } else {
    /* Success */
    echo 'Sent Successfully! <b> Check your Mail</b>';
  }
}

I used this code for google smtp mail sending with Attachment....

Note: Download PHPMailer Library from here -> https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer

Answer 16

Copying the code from this page - works in mail()

He starts off my making a function mail_attachment that can be called later. Which he does later with his attachment code.

<?php
function mail_attachment($filename, $path, $mailto, $from_mail, $from_name, $replyto, $subject, $message) {
    $file = $path.$filename;
    $file_size = filesize($file);
    $handle = fopen($file, "r");
    $content = fread($handle, $file_size);
    fclose($handle);
    $content = chunk_split(base64_encode($content));
    $uid = md5(uniqid(time()));
    $header = "From: ".$from_name." <".$from_mail.">\r\n";
    $header .= "Reply-To: ".$replyto."\r\n";
    $header .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
    $header .= "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"".$uid."\"\r\n\r\n";
    $header .= "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\r\n";
    $header .= "--".$uid."\r\n";
    $header .= "Content-type:text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
    $header .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\r\n\r\n";
    $header .= $message."\r\n\r\n";
    $header .= "--".$uid."\r\n";
    $header .= "Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name=\"".$filename."\"\r\n"; // use different content types here
    $header .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n";
    $header .= "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"".$filename."\"\r\n\r\n";
    $header .= $content."\r\n\r\n";
    $header .= "--".$uid."--";
    if (mail($mailto, $subject, "", $header)) {
        echo "mail send ... OK"; // or use booleans here
    } else {
        echo "mail send ... ERROR!";
    }
}

//start editing and inputting attachment details here
$my_file = "somefile.zip";
$my_path = "/your_path/to_the_attachment/";
$my_name = "Olaf Lederer";
$my_mail = "my@mail.com";
$my_replyto = "my_reply_to@mail.net";
$my_subject = "This is a mail with attachment.";
$my_message = "Hallo,\r\ndo you like this script? I hope it will help.\r\n\r\ngr. Olaf";
mail_attachment($my_file, $my_path, "recipient@mail.org", $my_mail, $my_name, $my_replyto, $my_subject, $my_message);
?>

He has more details on his page and answers some problems in the comments section.