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PHP mail Function With Attachments


 

This code sends an html formatted email with attachments. This email sending script actually sends both a plaintext and an html body of the email, allowing the email client to choose which to display. The plaintext email is generated by stripping html tags from the html formatted body, and replacing
with newline characters.

One of the nice things about this script is that the attachments are stored in an array. If you want to add another attachment, all you have to do is copy and past an existing line in the attachment array, and change the filename.
For each attachment, it automatically looks up the corresponding mimetype.

$file1='test.pdf';
$file2='test2.tar.gz';
$head = array(
       'to'      =>array('email@email.net'=>'Admin',
                         'email2@email.net'=>'Admin2'),
       'from'    =>array('cron@55.66.77.88' =>'CronAgent'),
       'cc'      =>array('email3@email.net'=>'Admin'),
       'bcc'     =>array('email4@email.net'=>'Admin'),
       );
$subject = date("Ymd")." Weekly Report";
$body ='';
$body.="<div style='font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;'>";
$body.=    "<br>"."Admin,";
$body.=    "<br>"."";
$body.=    "<br>"."Attached are the files:";
$body.=    "<br>"."* ".$file1;
$body.=    "<br>"."* ".$file2;
$body.=    "<br>"."";
$body.=    "<br>"."-Cronagent";
$body.="</div>";
$files = array($file1,$file2);

mail::send($head,$subj,$body);//$files are optional param
mail::send($head,$subj,$body, $files);

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<?php

class mail
{

  static $mimetypes=array();

  /* @param $head required, assoc array: keys 'to','from','cc','bcc'
        $head = array(
            'to'      =>array('email@email.net'=>'Admin'), //arraysize: min 1, max any
            'from'    =>array('cron@55.66.77.88' =>'CronAgent'),//arraysize: min 1, max 1
            'cc'      =>array('email3@email.net'=>'Admin'),//arraysize:min 0, max any
            'bcc'     =>array('email4@email.net'=>'Admin'),//arraysize:min 0, max any
        );
        required: 'to','from'      optional: 'cc','bcc'
        multiple addresses allowed for 'to','cc','bcc'    not 'from'
   * @param $subject required,
   * @param $body required, body of email HTML only... use <br%gt; for newline
   * @param $attachments optional, array of filenames
   *
   * @return bool true|false depending on message send success
   */
  public static function send($head, $subject, $body, $attachments=array())
  {
    if (count($head['from'])!=1) return false;
    if (count($head['to'  ])==0) return false;
   

    $to='';
    foreach($head['to'] as $cc_addr=>$cc_name)
        $to.= $cc_name . "<" . $cc_addr . ">";
    $fromaddress = array_pop( array_keys  ($head['from']) );
    $fromname    = array_pop( array_values($head['from']) );
    $eol="\r\n";
    $mime_boundary=md5(time())."-2";
    $mime_boundary2= $mime_boundary."-3";

    # Common Headers
    $headers='';
    $headers .= "Message-ID: <".time()."-".$fromaddress.">".$eol;
    $headers .= "Date: ".date('r').$eol;
    $headers .= "From: ".$fromname."<".$fromaddress.">".$eol;
    if (isset($head['cc']))
        foreach($head['cc'] as $cc_address=>$cc_name)
            $headers .= "Cc: ".$cc_name."<".$cc_address.">".$eol;
    if (isset($head['bcc']))
        foreach($head['bcc'] as $cc_address=>$cc_name)
            $headers .= "Bcc: ".$cc_name."<".$cc_address.">".$eol;
    $headers .= "Reply-To: ".$fromname."<".$fromaddress.">".$eol;
    $headers .= "Return-Path: ".$fromname."<".$fromaddress.">".$eol;    // these two to set reply address
    //$headers .= "Message-ID: <".time()."-".$fromaddress.">".$eol;
    $headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP v".phpversion().$eol;          // These two to help avoid spam-filters

    # Boundry for marking the split & Multitype Headers
    $headers .= 'Mime-Version: 1.0'.$eol;
    $headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"".$mime_boundary."\"".$eol.$eol;
    #$headers .= "To: ".$to.$eol;
    #$headers .= "Subject: ".$subject.$eol.$eol;
    $headers .= "This is a MIME-formatted message.  If you see this text it means that your".$eol;
    $headers .= "E-mail software does not support MIME-formatted messages.".$eol.$eol;

    # Open the first part of the mail
    $msg ='';

    $msg .= "--".$mime_boundary.$eol;
    $msg .= "Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=\"$mime_boundary2\"".$eol.$eol;
    $msg .= "This is a MIME-formatted message.  IF you see this text it means that your".$eol;
    $msg .= "E-mail softare does not support MIME-formatted messages.".$eol.$eol;
    $msg .= "--".$mime_boundary2.$eol;
    $msg .= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed".$eol;
    $msg .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit".$eol;
    $msg .= "Content-Disposition: inline".$eol.$eol;
    $msg .= strip_tags(str_replace("<br>", "\n", $body ));
    $msg .= $eol.$eol;
    $msg .= "--".$mime_boundary2.$eol;
    $msg .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1;".$eol;
    $msg .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable".$eol;
    $msg .= "Content-Disposition: inline".$eol.$eol;
    $msg .= "<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN\">".$eol;
    $msg .= "<html>".$eol;
    $msg .= "<body>".$eol;
    $msg .= mail::mime_html_encode($body).$eol;
    $msg .= "</body>".$eol;
    $msg .= "</html>".$eol;
    $msg .= $eol.$eol;
    $msg .= "--".$mime_boundary2."--".$eol.$eol;

    for($i=0; $i < count($attachments); $i++)
    {
        if (is_file($attachments[$i]))
        {  
          # File for Attachment
          $file_name = basename($attachments[$i]);
         
          $handle=fopen($attachments[$i], 'rb');
          $f_contents=fread($handle, filesize($attachments[$i]));
          $f_contents=chunk_split(base64_encode($f_contents));    //Encode The Data For Transition using base64_encode();
          $f_type=filetype($attachments[$i]);
          fclose($handle);

          $mime_type = mail::get_mimetype( array_pop( explode(".", $attachments[$i] ) ) );
         
          # Attachment
          $msg .= "--".$mime_boundary.$eol;
          $msg .= "Content-Type: ".$mime_type."; name=\"".$file_name."\"".$eol;
          $msg .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64".$eol;
          $msg .= "Content-Description: inline; $eol filename=\"".$file_name."\"".$eol.$eol; // !! This line needs TWO end of lines !! IMPORTANT !!
          $msg .= $f_contents.$eol.$eol;
        }
    }
   

    # Finished
    $msg .= "--".$mime_boundary."--".$eol.$eol;  // finish with two eol's for better security. see Injection.
   
    # SEND THE EMAIL
    ini_set('sendmail_from',$fromaddress);  // the INI lines are to force the From Address to be used !
    $mail_sent = mail($to, $subject, $msg, $headers);
   
    ini_restore('sendmail_from');
   
    return $mail_sent;
  }


  public static function get_mimetype($ext)
  {
    if (count(mail::$mimetypes)==0)
        mail::$mimetypes = mail::mimelist();
    $ext_lower = strtolower(str_replace(".","",$ext));
    if (isset( mail::$mimetypes[$ext_lower] ))
        return mail::$mimetypes[$ext_lower];

    return "application/octet-stream";
  }


  private static function mimelist()
  {
    $arr['323'  ]='text/h323';
    $arr['acx'  ]='application/internet-property-stream';
    $arr['ai'   ]='application/postscript';
    $arr['aif'  ]='audio/x-aiff';
    $arr['aifc' ]='audio/x-aiff';
    $arr['aiff' ]='audio/x-aiff';
    $arr['asf'  ]='video/x-ms-asf';
    $arr['asr'  ]='video/x-ms-asf';
    $arr['asx'  ]='video/x-ms-asf';
    $arr['au'   ]='audio/basic';
    $arr['avi'  ]='video/x-msvideo';
    $arr['axs'  ]='application/olescript';
    $arr['bas'  ]='text/plain';
    $arr['bcpio']='application/x-bcpio';
    $arr['bin'  ]='application/octet-stream';
    $arr['bmp'  ]='image/bmp';
    $arr['c'    ]='text/plain';
    $arr['cat'  ]='application/vnd.ms-pkiseccat';
    $arr['cdf'  ]='application/x-cdf';
    $arr['cer'  ]='application/x-x509-ca-cert';
    $arr['class']='application/octet-stream';
    $arr['clp'  ]='application/x-msclip';
    $arr['cmx'  ]='image/x-cmx';
    $arr['cod'  ]='image/cis-cod';
    $arr['cpio' ]='application/x-cpio';
    $arr['crd'  ]='application/x-mscardfile';
    $arr['crl'  ]='application/pkix-crl';
    $arr['crt'  ]='application/x-x509-ca-cert';
    $arr['csh'  ]='application/x-csh';
    $arr['css'  ]='text/css';
    $arr['dcr'  ]='application/x-director';
    $arr['der'  ]='application/x-x509-ca-cert';
    $arr['dir'  ]='application/x-director';
    $arr['dll'  ]='application/x-msdownload';
    $arr['dms'  ]='application/octet-stream';
    $arr['doc'  ]='application/msword';
    $arr['docx' ]='application/msword';
    $arr['dot'  ]='application/msword';
    $arr['dvi'  ]='application/x-dvi';
    $arr['dxr'  ]='application/x-director';
    $arr['eps'  ]='application/postscript';
    $arr['etx'  ]='text/x-setext';
    $arr['evy'  ]='application/envoy';
    $arr['exe'  ]='application/octet-stream';
    $arr['fif'  ]='application/fractals';
    $arr['flr'  ]='x-world/x-vrml';
    $arr['gif'  ]='image/gif';
    $arr['gtar' ]='application/x-gtar';
    $arr['gz'   ]='application/x-gzip';
    $arr['h'    ]='text/plain';
    $arr['hdf'  ]='application/x-hdf';
    $arr['hlp'  ]='application/winhlp';
    $arr['hqx'  ]='application/mac-binhex40';
    $arr['hta'  ]='application/hta';
    $arr['htc'  ]='text/x-component';
    $arr['htm'  ]='text/html';
    $arr['html' ]='text/html';
    $arr['htt'  ]='text/webviewhtml';
    $arr['ico'  ]='image/x-icon';
    $arr['ief'  ]='image/ief';
    $arr['iii'  ]='application/x-iphone';
    $arr['ins'  ]='application/x-internet-signup';
    $arr['isp'  ]='application/x-internet-signup';
    $arr['jfif' ]='image/pipeg';
    $arr['jpe'  ]='image/jpeg';
    $arr['jpeg' ]='image/jpeg';
    $arr['jpg'  ]='image/jpeg';
    $arr['js'   ]='application/x-javascript';
    $arr['latex']='application/x-latex';
    $arr['lha'  ]='application/octet-stream';
    $arr['lsf'  ]='video/x-la-asf';
    $arr['lsx'  ]='video/x-la-asf';
    $arr['lzh'  ]='application/octet-stream';
    $arr['m13'  ]='application/x-msmediaview';
    $arr['m14'  ]='application/x-msmediaview';
    $arr['m3u'  ]='audio/x-mpegurl';
    $arr['man'  ]='application/x-troff-man';
    $arr['mdb'  ]='application/x-msaccess';
    $arr['me'   ]='application/x-troff-me';
    $arr['mht'  ]='message/rfc822';
    $arr['mhtml']='message/rfc822';
    $arr['mid'  ]='audio/mid';
    $arr['mny'  ]='application/x-msmoney';
    $arr['mov'  ]='video/quicktime';
    $arr['movie']='video/x-sgi-movie';
    $arr['mp2'  ]='video/mpeg';
    $arr['mp3'  ]='audio/mpeg';
    $arr['mpa'  ]='video/mpeg';
    $arr['mpe'  ]='video/mpeg';
    $arr['mpeg' ]='video/mpeg';
    $arr['mpg'  ]='video/mpeg';
    $arr['mpp'  ]='application/vnd.ms-project';
    $arr['mpv2' ]='video/mpeg';
    $arr['ms'   ]='application/x-troff-ms';
    $arr['mvb'  ]='application/x-msmediaview';
    $arr['nws'  ]='message/rfc822';
    $arr['oda'  ]='application/oda';
    $arr['p10'  ]='application/pkcs10';
    $arr['p12'  ]='application/x-pkcs12';
    $arr['p7b'  ]='application/x-pkcs7-certificates';
    $arr['p7c'  ]='application/x-pkcs7-mime';
    $arr['p7m'  ]='application/x-pkcs7-mime';
    $arr['p7r'  ]='application/x-pkcs7-certreqresp';
    $arr['p7s'  ]='application/x-pkcs7-signature';
    $arr['pbm'  ]='image/x-portable-bitmap';
    $arr['pdf'  ]='application/pdf';
    $arr['pfx'  ]='application/x-pkcs12';
    $arr['pgm'  ]='image/x-portable-graymap';
    $arr['pko'  ]='application/ynd.ms-pkipko';
    $arr['pma'  ]='application/x-perfmon';
    $arr['pmc'  ]='application/x-perfmon';
    $arr['pml'  ]='application/x-perfmon';
    $arr['pmr'  ]='application/x-perfmon';
    $arr['pmw'  ]='application/x-perfmon';
    $arr['pnm'  ]='image/x-portable-anymap';
    $arr['pot'  ]='application/vnd.ms-powerpoint';
    $arr['ppm'  ]='image/x-portable-pixmap';
    $arr['pps'  ]='application/vnd.ms-powerpoint';
    $arr['ppt'  ]='application/vnd.ms-powerpoint';
    $arr['pptx' ]='application/vnd.ms-powerpoint';
    $arr['prf'  ]='application/pics-rules';
    $arr['ps'   ]='application/postscript';
    $arr['pub'  ]='application/x-mspublisher';
    $arr['qt'   ]='video/quicktime';
    $arr['ra'   ]='audio/x-pn-realaudio';
    $arr['ram'  ]='audio/x-pn-realaudio';
    $arr['ras'  ]='image/x-cmu-raster';
    $arr['rgb'  ]='image/x-rgb';
    $arr['rmi'  ]='audio/mid';
    $arr['roff' ]='application/x-troff';
    $arr['rtf'  ]='application/rtf';
    $arr['rtx'  ]='text/richtext';
    $arr['scd'  ]='application/x-msschedule';
    $arr['sct'  ]='text/scriptlet';
    $arr['sh'   ]='application/x-sh';
    $arr['shar' ]='application/x-shar';
    $arr['sit'  ]='application/x-stuffit';
    $arr['snd'  ]='audio/basic';
    $arr['spc'  ]='application/x-pkcs7-certificates';
    $arr['spl'  ]='application/futuresplash';
    $arr['src'  ]='application/x-wais-source';
    $arr['sst'  ]='application/vnd.ms-pkicertstore';
    $arr['stl'  ]='application/vnd.ms-pkistl';
    $arr['stm'  ]='text/html';
    $arr['svg'  ]='image/svg+xml';
    $arr['swf'  ]='application/x-shockwave-flash';
    $arr['t'    ]='application/x-troff';
    $arr['tar'  ]='application/x-tar';
    $arr['tcl'  ]='application/x-tcl';
    $arr['tex'  ]='application/x-tex';
    $arr['texi' ]='application/x-texinfo';
    $arr['tgz'  ]='application/x-compressed';
    $arr['tif'  ]='image/tiff';
    $arr['tiff' ]='image/tiff';
    $arr['tr'   ]='application/x-troff';
    $arr['trm'  ]='application/x-msterminal';
    $arr['tsv'  ]='text/tab-separated-values';
    $arr['txt'  ]='text/plain';
    $arr['uls'  ]='text/iuls';
    $arr['ustar']='application/x-ustar';
    $arr['vcf'  ]='text/x-vcard';
    $arr['vrml' ]='x-world/x-vrml';
    $arr['wav'  ]='audio/x-wav';
    $arr['wcm'  ]='application/vnd.ms-works';
    $arr['wdb'  ]='application/vnd.ms-works';
    $arr['wks'  ]='application/vnd.ms-works';
    $arr['wmf'  ]='application/x-msmetafile';
    $arr['wps'  ]='application/vnd.ms-works';
    $arr['wri'  ]='application/x-mswrite';
    $arr['wrl'  ]='x-world/x-vrml';
    $arr['wrz'  ]='x-world/x-vrml';
    $arr['xaf'  ]='x-world/x-vrml';
    $arr['xbm'  ]='image/x-xbitmap';
    $arr['xla'  ]='application/vnd.ms-excel';
    $arr['xlc'  ]='application/vnd.ms-excel';
    $arr['xlm'  ]='application/vnd.ms-excel';
    $arr['xls'  ]='application/vnd.ms-excel';
    $arr['xlsx' ]='application/vnd.ms-excel';
    $arr['xlt'  ]='application/vnd.ms-excel';
    $arr['xlw'  ]='application/vnd.ms-excel';
    $arr['xof'  ]='x-world/x-vrml';
    $arr['xpm'  ]='image/x-xpixmap';
    $arr['xwd'  ]='image/x-xwindowdump';
    $arr['z'    ]='application/x-compress';
    $arr['zip'  ]='application/zip';
    return $arr;
  }

  private function mime_html_encode($input , $line_max = 76)
  {
   
    $eol    = "\r\n";//MAIL_MIMEPART_CRLF
    $output = '';
    $line   = '';
    $intag  = false;
   
   
    for($i=0; $i<strlen($input); $i++)
    {
      $ip=$input{$i};
      $op='';
         
      if ($intag)
      {
          if ($ip=="=") $op="=3D";
          else $op= $ip;
      }
      else
      {
          if ($ip=="\"") $op='"';//'
          else if ($ip=="&") $op="&";
          else if ($ip=="'") $op="'";
          else $op= $ip;
      }


      if ((strlen($line)+strlen($op))>=$line_max)
      {
          $output.=$line.'='.$eol;
          //if ($intag) $output.=$line.'='.$eol;
          //else  $output.=$line.$eol;
          $line='';
      }
      $line.=$op;

      if($ip=='<')
          $intag=true;
      else if ($ip=='>')
          $intag=false;
    }
    return $output.$line.$eol;
  }
}
?>
 

Tags: php, sendmail
 
AlfaTrion on Oct 2nd, 2009 4:04 pm said:
This helped me a lot! Thank you!
 

Rick Torzynski on Apr 17th, 2010 2:52 pm said:
Thanks! The ONLY place that presented a simple and complete example.
 

icebox on Jul 20th, 2010 5:12 am said:
Hey, thanks, works great, just one thing. In your example you define $subject, but then call $subj.
 

Deepak on Jul 25th, 2010 12:30 pm said:
Thx you very much from bottem of my heart really this is really a good script God Bless You
 

Steve on May 11th, 2011 9:39 pm said:
Very nice of you to offer, and thank you. This was my last attempt to solve an error, but I still get a failure with an attachment > 750KB. Have adjusted all php.ini memory limits up to 20M to no effect. Since it's obvious that you are expert in this arena, do you have any clues ? Thanks again for your fine routine.
 

ATR on Jul 16th, 2011 10:00 am said:
Thanks for providing a readily re-usable function! Tired of finding scripts that require modification...
 

sankari on Nov 8th, 2011 6:58 am said:
i get this error Line 236: $mail_sent = mail($to, $subject, $msg, $headers); Warning: mail() [function.mail]: SMTP server response: 451 See http://pobox.com/~djb/docs/smtplf.html. in
 

Clayton on Nov 28th, 2011 3:25 pm said:
For some reason, I can't get this to show as an attachment when Outlook receives it. I just get a bunch of junk and it says "This is a MIME-formatted message. If you see this text it means that your E-mail software does not support MIME-formatted messages." Any idea how to fix that?
 

John on Nov 30th, 2011 7:36 pm said:
Thanks so much for the code. When I use Microsoft Outlook I get a bunch of = in the text. Any Ideas?
 

Anthony on Jan 19th, 2012 10:52 pm said:
I am not able to attache a file in MS Outlook
 

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