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PHP Email with attachment

by admin · May 9, 2016

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PHP Email With Attachment

Sending email with attachment from your website is really a great add on. Usually this is required if you have a contact us page where you need your users to attach any further information or a web page where users can attach files and send etc.,

This is a simple example, All you need is to create a HTML form with all the required entries as below. Let us name the file as mail.html

<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" /><title>PHP Mail With Attachment</title></head>
<body style="padding:3px; margin:0px;" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<form name="frm" method="POST" action="success.php" enctype="multipart/form-data">Name<input type="text" name="strname" class="textfield"><p> Address<textarea cols="16" name="straddress"></textarea><p>City<input type="text" name="strcity" class="textfield"><p> State<input type="text" name="strstate" class="textfield"><p>Contact No<input type="text" name="strno" class="textfield"><p>Email<input type="text" name="stremail" class="textfield"><p> Comments<textarea cols="16" name="strcomments"></textarea><p>Resume<input type="file" name="strresume"><p><input type="submit" value="Send" name="submit" onClick="return validate();"> <input type="reset" value="Reset" name="reset">  </form></body></html>

Next step is to create a PHP file to process the information from the HTML page.

Before we proceed some information regarding the functions and code used in the PHP script.

I have added 4 file types here. You are free to add any number of file types according to your convenience.

if($filetype=="application/octet-stream" or $filetype=="text/plain" or $filetype=="application/msword" or $filetype=="image/jpeg")

ucfirst() function in PHP returns a string with the first character of str capitalized

To avoid email landing in SPAM folder of your mail client include these headers (Not always helpful 🙁 ). There might be other reasons as well on why your emails land in SPAM . Make sure you modify the emails accordingly.

 $headers .= "Reply-To: The Sender <[email protected]>\r\n"; 
 $headers .= "Return-Path: The Sender <[email protected]>\r\n";
 $headers  = "From: Mistonline Demo< [email protected]>\r\n";      
 $headers  .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";

Let us name it as success.php and the entire code look like the one below

<?php
 $strname=ucfirst($_REQUEST&#91;"strname"&#93;);      
 $straddress=ucfirst($_REQUEST&#91;"straddress"&#93;);     
 $strcity=ucfirst($_REQUEST&#91;"strcity"&#93;);     
 $strstate=ucfirst($_REQUEST&#91;"strstate"&#93;);                      
 $phone=$_REQUEST&#91;"strno"&#93;;        
 if($phone != ""){ $strno=$phone; } else { $strno="-"; }               
 $stremail=$_REQUEST&#91;"stremail"&#93;;        
 $strcomments=ucfirst($_REQUEST&#91;"strcomments"&#93;);         
 $filename=$_FILES&#91;"strresume"&#93;&#91;"name"&#93;;    
 $filetype=$_FILES&#91;"strresume"&#93;&#91;"type"&#93;;     
 $filesize=$_FILES&#91;"strresume"&#93;&#91;"size"&#93;;     
 $filetemp=$_FILES&#91;"strresume"&#93;&#91;"tmp_name"&#93;;        
echo $filename; 
 if($filetype=="application/octet-stream" or $filetype=="text/plain" or $filetype=="application/msword" or $filetype=="image/jpeg")    
 {$message= 'Name'.$strname.'Address	'.$straddress.'City	'.$strcity.'State	'.$strstate.'Contact No.	'.$strno.'Email	'.$stremail.'Comments
'.$strcomments.'';     
// MAIL SUBJECT     
 $subject = "Mail with doc file attachment";        
 // TO MAIL ADDRESS             
 $to=$stremail; 
 // MAIL HEADERS                             
 $headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";     
 $headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n";       
 $fp = fopen($filetemp, "rb");     
 $file = fread($fp, $filesize);     
 $file = chunk_split(base64_encode($file));     
 $num = md5(time());             //Normal headers    
 $headers .= "Reply-To: The Sender <[email protected]>\r\n"; // Make sure to add your VALID EMAIL ID HERE
 $headers .= "Return-Path: The Sender <[email protected]>\r\n"; // Make sure to add your VALID EMAIL ID HERE
 $headers  = "From: Mistonline Demo< [email protected]>\r\n";   // Make sure to add your VALID EMAIL ID HERE   
 $headers  .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";        
 $headers  .= "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; ";        
 $headers  .= "boundary=".$num."\r\n"; 
 $headers  .= "--$num\r\n";         // This two steps to help avoid spam       
 $headers .= "Message-ID: [email protected]".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].">\r\n";    
 $headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP v".phpversion()."\r\n";                  // With message            
 $headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";       
 $headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\r\n";        
 $headers .= "".$message."\n";        
 $headers .= "--".$num."\n";          // Attachment headers    
 $headers  .= "Content-Type:".$filetype." ";        
 $headers  .= "name=\"".$filename."\"r\n";       
 $headers  .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n";        
 $headers  .= "Content-Disposition: attachment; ";       
 $headers  .= "filename=\"".$filename."\"\r\n\n";       
 $headers  .= "".$file."\r\n";        
 $headers  .= "--".$num."--";           
 // SEND MAIL                
 $from = ""; //Include your FROM EMAIL ID HERE
 mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);          
 fclose($fp);     
 echo ' Attachment has been sent Successfully.'; } else     
 {echo 'Wrong file format. Mail was not sent.';            
} 
?>

Note: This tutorial has been updated and all issues fixed. Previous submitted Sep 16, 2008. Bugs fixed on May 9, 2016

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tam says:

April 6, 2009 at 10:57 am

The script i was looking for….thanks bro..

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