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I am sending HTML emails using php. I want to use embedded images in the HTML. Is it possible? I have tried lot of different methods, but none are working. Is anyone able to help me please?
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I tried this one http://www.phpeveryday.com/articles/PHP-Email-Using-Embedded-Images-in-HTML-Email-P113.html – Ahammed K M Jan 14 '12 at 12:42
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@BenSwinburne : It can't send mail – Ahammed K M Jan 14 '12 at 12:44
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2@phpcochin: DO NOT write all that code on your own. Get some PHP class that deals with building multipart/MIME emails and supports file attachments. It will make your life **much** easier and probably save you hours of work. – ThiefMaster Jan 14 '12 at 12:48
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Send (from your normal email client) a HTML email to yourself and study the source code of the received message. This "example code" will really help you understand the theory. – Eugen Rieck Jan 14 '12 at 12:48
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@ThiefMaster can u share some examples? – Ahammed K M Jan 14 '12 at 12:53
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@EugenRieck The email not sending when it contains embedded images – Ahammed K M Jan 14 '12 at 12:54
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I know to send html email but i don't know how to embed images in html mail – Ahammed K M Jan 14 '12 at 12:57
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If you have no possibility to send yourself HTML email from your standard email client, you should use somtehing like mail.google.com, study the workings, review your code, then come back here – Eugen Rieck Jan 14 '12 at 12:58
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Actually i want images in cid format – Ahammed K M Jan 14 '12 at 13:00
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I find the best way to send images via email is to encode them with base64.
There are loads of links and tutorials on this but here is this code for Codeigniter should suffice:
/* Load email library and file helper */
$this->load->library('email');
$this->load->helper('file');
$this->email->from('whoever@example.com', 'Who Ever'); // Who the email is from
$this->email->to('youremailhere@example.com'); // Who the email is to
$image = "path/to/image"; // image path
$fileExt = get_mime_by_extension($image); // <- what the file helper is used for (to get the mime type)
$this->email->message('<img src="data:'.$fileExt.';base64,'.base64_encode(file_get_contents($image)).'" alt="Test Image" />'); // Get the content of the file, and base64 encode it
if( ! $this->email->send()) {
// Error message here
} else {
// Message sent
}
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You need to provide the whole url where your image resides example:
<img src='http://www.mydomain.com/imagefolder/image.jpg' alt='my-image' width='' height=''>
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Exactly the way i do it except for 1 thing. I always use style="display:block" on all my images to stop a gmail bug (adding space below some images). Consider adding it to your answer? :) – Undefined Jan 16 '12 at 09:37
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This post is embedding an image, not accessing it from the Internet – Salvi Pascual Aug 08 '15 at 12:20
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This isn't really trivial, but with a couple of tries doable.
First of all, learn how to build a multipart email, that has the correct images attached to it. If you can't attach the images, they obviously won't be in the email. Make sure to set the type to multipart/related.
Secondly, find out how to set the cid references, in particular the Content-ID header of the attachment.
Third, glue it all together.
At each step, do the following:
- look at the result
- send the email to yourself, and compare it to what you received
- compare it to a working example email
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Here is a way to get a string variable without having to worry about the coding.
If you have Mozilla Thunderbird, you can use it to fetch the html image code for you.
I wrote a little tutorial here, complete with a screenshot (it's for powershell, but that doesn't matter for this):
powershell email with html picture showing red x
And again:
