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embed image php mail()

related question:

https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/27840780/image-opening-by-default.html

want to embed (not attach)
image
using
php mail (not phpmailer())

I also can not use a mailing list program (constant contact, sendgrid) for this project

gr8gonzo

With email and images, you can only do one of two things:

A. Insert a REFERENCE to an image that is hosted at a remote URL:

From: me@gr8gonzo.com
To: you@rgb192.com
Subject: An example of MIME email and remote images
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary="emailsectionseparator"; type="text/html"

--emailsectionseparator
Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII"

Here is some HTML content:
<img src="http://www.remotedomain.com/image.jpg">

--emailsectionseparator--

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or

B. Attach the image to the e-mail and display it using a local reference:

From: me@gr8gonzo.com
To: you@rgb192.com
Subject: An example of MIME email and embedded/attached images
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary="emailsectionseparator"; type="text/html"

--emailsectionseparator
Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII"

Here is some HTML content:
<IMG SRC="cid:my50kphoto">

--emailsectionseparator
Content-ID: <my50kphoto>
Content-Type: image/jpeg
Content-Transfer-Encoding: Base64

ABX1JKADFjkad91/291... 50k of base64 data here...

--emailsectionseparator--

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Those are your only two options with email.

rgb192

ASKER

I dont understand example B
could you put in code that I could run please

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Loganathan Natarajan

2nd link, http://www.devraju.com/php/how-to-embed-images-with-php-mailer-class/

gr8gonzo

Trying to do it raw from mail() is a little hard because of the order in which things happen. It -IS- possible, though. I wrote up a quick class to make it happen. The end result is that it goes out through mail(), though, so you can echo the parts if you want to see how you would write it:

<?php
$Mail = new Gr8GonzosMailWrapper("rgb192@somewhere.com","Test Subject");
$Mail->setBody("Hello! Image is below:<br>".$Mail->embedImage("php.gif")."Testing...<br>\n");
$Mail->setFrom("gr8gonzo@somewhereelse.com"); // Optional
$Mail->Send();


class Gr8GonzosMailWrapper
{
  public $from = "";
  public $to = "";
  public $subject = "";
  public $body = "";

  public $boundaryRelated = "";
  public $boundaryMessageTypes = "";
  public $parts = array();

  public function __construct($to,$subject)
  {
    $this->boundaryRelated       = "==========RELATED".time()."==";
    $this->boundaryMessageTypes  = "==========MSGTYPES".time()."==";
    $this->setTo($to);
    $this->setSubject($subject);
  }

  public function Send($displayCommand = true)
  {
    // Build $headers
    $headers = "";
    if($from) $headers .= "From: {$from}\n";
    $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
    $headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/related;\n  boundary=\"".$this->boundaryRelated."\"\n";

    // Build structure
    $newbody = "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n";
    $newbody .= "--".$this->boundaryRelated . "\n";

    // Build HTML content
    $newbody .= "Content-Type: multipart/alternative;\n  boundary=\"".$this->boundaryMessageTypes."\"\n";
    $newbody .= "MIME-Version 1.0\n\n";
    $newbody .= "--".$this->boundaryMessageTypes."\n";
    $newbody .= $this->body[0] . "\n";
    $newbody .= "MIME-Version 1.0\n\n";
    $newbody .= $this->body[1] . "\n\n";
    $newbody .= "--".$this->boundaryMessageTypes."--\n";

    // Add images
    foreach($this->parts as $part)
    {
      $contentHeader = $part[0];
      $content = $part[1];
      $newbody .= "--".$this->boundaryRelated."\n";
      $newbody .= $contentHeader . "\n\n";
      $newbody .= $content . "\n\n";
    }

    $newbody .= "--".$this->boundaryRelated."--";

    if($displayCommand)
    {
      echo "mail(\"".$this->to."\",\"".$this->subject."\",\"".$newbody."\",\"".$headers."\");\n";
    }

    mail($this->to,$this->subject,$newbody,$headers);
  }

  public function setTo($address) { $this->to = trim($address); }
  public function setFrom($address) { $this->from = trim($address); }
  public function setSubject($content) { $this->subject = trim($content); }
  public function setBody($content) { 
    $this->body = array("Content-Type: text/html; charset=\"UTF-8\"",trim($content));
  }

  public function embedImage($image,$cid = "")
  { 
    $data = file_get_contents($image);
    $name = basename($image);
    if($cid == "") $cid = preg_replace("/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/","_",$name);
    if(strpos($cid,"@") == false) $cid .= "@gr8gonzosmailwrapper";
    $this->parts[] = array(
      "Content-Type: ".mime_content_type($image)."; name=\"$name\"\n" . 
      "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n" . 
      "Content-ID: <{$cid}>\n" . 
      "Content-Disposition: attachment;\n" . 
      " filename=\"$name\"", 
      chunk_split( base64_encode($data), 68, "\n")); 
    return "<img src=\"cid:{$cid}\">"; 
  }
}

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rgb192

ASKER

tried on two servers

Fatal error: Call to undefined function mime_content_type() on line 82

gr8gonzo

Throw this onto the end of the script:

if(!function_exists('mime_content_type')) {

    function mime_content_type($filename) {

        $mime_types = array(

            'txt' => 'text/plain',
            'htm' => 'text/html',
            'html' => 'text/html',
            'php' => 'text/html',
            'css' => 'text/css',
            'js' => 'application/javascript',
            'json' => 'application/json',
            'xml' => 'application/xml',
            'swf' => 'application/x-shockwave-flash',
            'flv' => 'video/x-flv',

            // images
            'png' => 'image/png',
            'jpe' => 'image/jpeg',
            'jpeg' => 'image/jpeg',
            'jpg' => 'image/jpeg',
            'gif' => 'image/gif',
            'bmp' => 'image/bmp',
            'ico' => 'image/vnd.microsoft.icon',
            'tiff' => 'image/tiff',
            'tif' => 'image/tiff',
            'svg' => 'image/svg+xml',
            'svgz' => 'image/svg+xml',

            // archives
            'zip' => 'application/zip',
            'rar' => 'application/x-rar-compressed',
            'exe' => 'application/x-msdownload',
            'msi' => 'application/x-msdownload',
            'cab' => 'application/vnd.ms-cab-compressed',

            // audio/video
            'mp3' => 'audio/mpeg',
            'qt' => 'video/quicktime',
            'mov' => 'video/quicktime',

            // adobe
            'pdf' => 'application/pdf',
            'psd' => 'image/vnd.adobe.photoshop',
            'ai' => 'application/postscript',
            'eps' => 'application/postscript',
            'ps' => 'application/postscript',

            // ms office
            'doc' => 'application/msword',
            'rtf' => 'application/rtf',
            'xls' => 'application/vnd.ms-excel',
            'ppt' => 'application/vnd.ms-powerpoint',

            // open office
            'odt' => 'application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text',
            'ods' => 'application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet',
        );

        $ext = strtolower(array_pop(explode('.',$filename)));
        if (array_key_exists($ext, $mime_types)) {
            return $mime_types[$ext];
        }
        elseif (function_exists('finfo_open')) {
            $finfo = finfo_open(FILEINFO_MIME);
            $mimetype = finfo_file($finfo, $filename);
            finfo_close($finfo);
            return $mimetype;
        }
        else {
            return 'application/octet-stream';
        }
    }
}

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rgb192

ASKER

same error

Fatal error: Call to undefined function mime_content_type() on line 82

Loganathan Natarajan

@ rgb192

Please do try with phpmailer with it. I gave ref. links how to do.

gr8gonzo

If you are still getting that error, then something went wrong when you pasted in that code. Can you show us the whole script so far?

rgb192

ASKER

<?php

$Mail = new Gr8GonzosMailWrapper("me@gmail.com","Test Subject");

$Mail->setBody("Hello! Image is below:<br>".$Mail->embedImage("php.gif")."Testing...<br>\n");

$Mail->setFrom("me@gmail.com"); // Optional

$Mail->Send();





class Gr8GonzosMailWrapper

{

  public $from = "";

  public $to = "";

  public $subject = "";

  public $body = "";



  public $boundaryRelated = "";

  public $boundaryMessageTypes = "";

  public $parts = array();



  public function __construct($to,$subject)

  {

    $this->boundaryRelated       = "==========RELATED".time()."==";

    $this->boundaryMessageTypes  = "==========MSGTYPES".time()."==";

    $this->setTo($to);

    $this->setSubject($subject);

  }



  public function Send($displayCommand = true)

  {

    // Build $headers

    $headers = "";

    if($from) $headers .= "From: {$from}\n";

    $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";

    $headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/related;\n  boundary=\"".$this->boundaryRelated."\"\n";



    // Build structure

    $newbody = "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n";

    $newbody .= "--".$this->boundaryRelated . "\n";



    // Build HTML content

    $newbody .= "Content-Type: multipart/alternative;\n  boundary=\"".$this->boundaryMessageTypes."\"\n";

    $newbody .= "MIME-Version 1.0\n\n";

    $newbody .= "--".$this->boundaryMessageTypes."\n";

    $newbody .= $this->body[0] . "\n";

    $newbody .= "MIME-Version 1.0\n\n";

    $newbody .= $this->body[1] . "\n\n";

    $newbody .= "--".$this->boundaryMessageTypes."--\n";



    // Add images

    foreach($this->parts as $part)

    {

      $contentHeader = $part[0];

      $content = $part[1];

      $newbody .= "--".$this->boundaryRelated."\n";

      $newbody .= $contentHeader . "\n\n";

      $newbody .= $content . "\n\n";

    }



    $newbody .= "--".$this->boundaryRelated."--";



    if($displayCommand)

    {

      echo "mail(\"".$this->to."\",\"".$this->subject."\",\"".$newbody."\",\"".$headers."\");\n";

    }



    mail($this->to,$this->subject,$newbody,$headers);

  }



  public function setTo($address) { $this->to = trim($address); }

  public function setFrom($address) { $this->from = trim($address); }

  public function setSubject($content) { $this->subject = trim($content); }

  public function setBody($content) { 

    $this->body = array("Content-Type: text/html; charset=\"UTF-8\"",trim($content));

  }



  public function embedImage($image,$cid = "")

  { 

    $data = file_get_contents($image);

    $name = basename($image);

    if($cid == "") $cid = preg_replace("/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/","_",$name);

    if(strpos($cid,"@") == false) $cid .= "@gr8gonzosmailwrapper";

    $this->parts[] = array(

      "Content-Type: ".mime_content_type($image)."; name=\"$name\"\n" . 

      "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n" . 

      "Content-ID: <{$cid}>\n" . 

      "Content-Disposition: attachment;\n" . 

      " filename=\"$name\"", 

      chunk_split( base64_encode($data), 68, "\n")); 

    return "<img src=\"cid:{$cid}\">"; 

  }

}







if(!function_exists('mime_content_type')) {



    function mime_content_type($filename) {



        $mime_types = array(



            'txt' => 'text/plain',

            'htm' => 'text/html',

            'html' => 'text/html',

            'php' => 'text/html',

            'css' => 'text/css',

            'js' => 'application/javascript',

            'json' => 'application/json',

            'xml' => 'application/xml',

            'swf' => 'application/x-shockwave-flash',

            'flv' => 'video/x-flv',



            // images

            'png' => 'image/png',

            'jpe' => 'image/jpeg',

            'jpeg' => 'image/jpeg',

            'jpg' => 'image/jpeg',

            'gif' => 'image/gif',

            'bmp' => 'image/bmp',

            'ico' => 'image/vnd.microsoft.icon',

            'tiff' => 'image/tiff',

            'tif' => 'image/tiff',

            'svg' => 'image/svg+xml',

            'svgz' => 'image/svg+xml',



            // archives

            'zip' => 'application/zip',

            'rar' => 'application/x-rar-compressed',

            'exe' => 'application/x-msdownload',

            'msi' => 'application/x-msdownload',

            'cab' => 'application/vnd.ms-cab-compressed',



            // audio/video

            'mp3' => 'audio/mpeg',

            'qt' => 'video/quicktime',

            'mov' => 'video/quicktime',



            // adobe

            'pdf' => 'application/pdf',

            'psd' => 'image/vnd.adobe.photoshop',

            'ai' => 'application/postscript',

            'eps' => 'application/postscript',

            'ps' => 'application/postscript',



            // ms office

            'doc' => 'application/msword',

            'rtf' => 'application/rtf',

            'xls' => 'application/vnd.ms-excel',

            'ppt' => 'application/vnd.ms-powerpoint',



            // open office

            'odt' => 'application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text',

            'ods' => 'application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet',

        );



        $ext = strtolower(array_pop(explode('.',$filename)));

        if (array_key_exists($ext, $mime_types)) {

            return $mime_types[$ext];

        }

        elseif (function_exists('finfo_open')) {

            $finfo = finfo_open(FILEINFO_MIME);

            $mimetype = finfo_file($finfo, $filename);

            finfo_close($finfo);

            return $mimetype;

        }

        else {

            return 'application/octet-stream';

        }

    }

}





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>>
Please do try with phpmailer with it. I gave ref. links how to do.

I can not use phpmailer because shared hosting companies (godaddy and 1and1 will not work with gmail authentication). I would like to send phpmailer without username,password

$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com"; // sets GMAIL as the SMTP server
$mail->Port = 465; // set the SMTP port for the GMAIL server
$mail->Username = "gmail@gmail.com"; // GMAIL username
$mail->Password = "password"; // GMAIL password

rgb192

ASKER

i am still getting the error with php mail()

rgb192

ASKER

when I do not use gmail,
this works, thanks