Send smtp mail in php with HTML page attach as a text

Question

Hello All....

I have a requirement of sending mail using smtp server in php.

Now I am able to send the mail using smtp for a plain text.

but I have a requirement where I need to attach an HTML page, which includes set of images.

Now for that I am trying the following code :

<?php
require_once "Mail.php";
$to      = '[email protected]';
$from    = '[email protected]';
$subject = $_POST['subject'];
$body = $_POST['message'];

$fileatt      = $_FILES['fileatt']['tmp_name'];
$fileatt_type = $_FILES['fileatt']['type'];
$fileatt_name = $_FILES['fileatt']['name'];

$headers = array ('From' => $from,
   'To' => $to,
   'Subject' => $subject);

if (is_uploaded_file($fileatt)) {
    echo("<p>Inside 1</p>");
    $file = fopen($fileatt,'rb');
    $data = fread($file,filesize($fileatt));
    fclose($file);

    // Generate a boundary string
    $semi_rand = md5(time());
    $mime_boundary = "==Multipart_Boundary_x{$semi_rand}x";

    array_push(&$headers, 'MIME-Version: 1.0');
    array_push(&$headers, 'Content-Type: multipart/mixed;');
    array_push(&$headers, " boundary=\"{$mime_boundary}\"");

    echo("<p>Inside 2</p>");

    $body = "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n\n" .
             "--{$mime_boundary}\n" .
             "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n" .
             "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n" .
    $body . "\n\n";

    echo("<p>Inside 3</p>");

    $data = chunk_split(base64_encode($data));

    echo("<p>Inside 4</p>");

    $body .= "--{$mime_boundary}\n" .
              "Content-Type: {$fileatt_type};\n" .
              " name=\"{$fileatt_name}\"\n" .
              "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n\n" .
    $data . "\n\n" .
              "--{$mime_boundary}--\n";

    echo("<p>Inside 5</p>");
}
$host = "[email protected]";
$username = "[email protected]";
$password = "user";
$smtp = Mail::factory('smtp',
    array ('host' => $host,
     'auth' => true,
     'username' => $username,
     'password' => $password));

$mail = $smtp->send($to, $headers, $body);
if (PEAR::isError($mail)) {
    echo("<p>" . $mail->getMessage() . "</p>");
} else {
    echo("<p>Message successfully sent!</p>");
}
?>

Now this code works fine for me, and it's sending the mail to the target email address.

But when I open this email in the inbox, it's showing me the following text in the mailbox:

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

--==Multipart_Boundary_x368d72fe1ff44518e90537abdb4bf029x
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

test 1011

--==Multipart_Boundary_x368d72fe1ff44518e90537abdb4bf029x
Content-Type: text/html;
 name="mailing.html"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

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--==Multipart_Boundary_x368d72fe1ff44518e90537abdb4bf029x--

So, it's clearly showing me the encoded data.

So, what should modify to send the proper html page that should be visible in targeted email's inbox?

Thanks in advance...

Answer 1

Why do you want to reinvent the wheel? There's lots of different implementations that allow you to send HTML mail with attachments, ie. Zend_Mail, PHPMailer, ... . Use one of these, and save yourself from headaches.