insert image in mail body

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How to insert image in mail body when user click on send button. I am using php mail

Are you using the php `mail()` function? If so, I think that it is HTML mail, which I believe could use the `` tag. — Ryan Leonard, Mar 22 '11 at 11:21
I will suggest you to go for phpmailer or swiftmailer for sending mails. — Shameer, Mar 22 '11 at 11:51
Don't you normally want to send the mail instead of add an image when clicking a "send mail" button? — Steve-o, Mar 22 '11 at 13:22
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1606588/how-to-attach-and-show-image-in-mail-using-php — random, Mar 22 '11 at 15:52
Does this answer your question? [base64 encoded images in email signatures](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9110091/base64-encoded-images-in-email-signatures) — EdChum, Mar 25 '20 at 07:30

score 32 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '13 at 04:51

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To create an HTML email you can do something like this:

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$message = "<html><head></head><body>";
$message .= "<img src='link-image.jpg' alt='' /></body></html>";

$headers = "From: $from_email";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html";

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

This should build an HTML email for you and you should then be able to insert just normal html.

edit You can read more about how to create HTML emails using PHP from here: http://css-tricks.com/sending-nice-html-email-with-php/

edited May 23 '13 at 04:51

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answered Mar 22 '11 at 11:40

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I tried this, and it worked however. You need to add the absolute path. Like http://www.example.com/image.jpg And nog just image.jpg – user3806549 Nov 01 '16 at 13:41

Catalin · Answer 2 · 2018-10-31T12:21:57.870

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If you are actually asking: How to attach and insert inline images in a html email? you can use this for guidance :) https://www.quora.com/What-is-meant-by-inline-images-in-HTML

In that example, pay extra attention to how the src attribute of the img tag is filled (the "cid" is actually the id given as "Content-ID:" for the image attachment header).

Hope this helps, all the best...

edited Oct 31 '18 at 12:21

answered Mar 22 '11 at 12:14

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I don't see any mention of "cid" or "Content-ID" on the linked page. For reference, see [`Content-ID` @ How to embed images in email](https://stackoverflow.com/a/4312865/924299). – showdev Mar 24 '20 at 20:18

score 4 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 22 '11 at 12:06

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To insert image in body of mail, you can use phpmailerclass which links are

http://www.phpclasses.org/package/264-PHP-Full-featured-email-transfer-class-for-PHP.html

http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmailer/

answered Mar 22 '11 at 12:06

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score 1 · Answer 4 · edited Mar 24 '20 at 20:23

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The correct is almost as the above marked answer. One most important part omitted is the absolute part of the image as indicated below:

$message = "<html><head></head><body>";
$message .= "<img src='http://example.com/images/link-image.jpg' alt='' /></body></html>";

$headers = "From: $from_email";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html";

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

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showdev

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answered Dec 16 '16 at 20:32

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