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Send E-mail with Attachment using PHP

Here’s a perfectly working snippet of PHP code which will send an e-mail with an attachment (of any file type).

This code has been updated to disable jumbled/garbage/corruption which showed up on gmail (while it was fine on Outlook).

//File settings
$fileatt = "../uploads/myLovelyFile.pdf";
$fileatttype = "application/octet-stream"; //Octet-stream is a file type to allow all types of files
$fileattname = "myLovelyFile";

//Read file contents
$file = fopen($fileatt, 'rb');
$data = fread($file, filesize($fileatt));
fclose($file);

//Prepare file contents for e-mail
$semi_rand = md5(time());
$mime_boundary = "==Multipart_Boundary_x{$semi_rand}x";
$data = chunk_split(base64_encode($data));

$subject = "My Lovely Subject";

$mainMessage = "Hello,"
. "

This is my lovely message."
. "
Please see the attached file."
. "

Best Regards,"
. "
Kim";

$from = "Sandy Sender ";

$to = "Randy Recipient ";

$headers = "From: $from" . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Reply-To: dispatcher@sender.com' . "\r\n"; //Optional
$headers .= "BCC: barbara@blindcopy.com\r\n"; //Optional

$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n" . "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;\n" . " boundary=\"{$mime_boundary}\"\n";
$headers .= "Importance: High\n"; //Optional
$message = "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n\n" . "–{$mime_boundary}\n"
. "Content-Type: text/html; charset=\"iso-8859-1\n"
. "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n" . $mainMessage . "\n\n";

//Attach file to e-mail
$message .= "–{$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";

// Send the email
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

 

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Remove PHP Mail Special Characters in Subject Field

Let’s say you’d like to insert special characters in the subject of HTML e-mails sent with the PHP mail() function.

You have an email subject which when extracted from my database looks like this..

Coffee & Laptop

Sample code..

$to = 'me@example.com';
$subject = 'Coffee & Laptop';
$message = 'HTML message...';

$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: Me <me@example.com>' . "\r\n";

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

Ofcourse, you won’t want the &amp; symbol showing when the email is sent to your client.

Add this line to change the html entities to the proper values:

$subject = '=?UTF-8?B?'.base64_encode($subject).'?=';

Your code becomes:

$to = 'me@example.com';
$subject = 'Coffee &amp; Laptop';
$subject = '=?UTF-8?B?'.base64_encode($subject).'?=';
$message = 'HTML message...'; 
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n"; $headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8' . "\r\n"; $headers .= 'From: Me <me@example.com>' . "\r\n"; mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

Here’s what the end user sees as the subject when they receive the email:

Coffee & Laptop