Send Email with Attachment in PHP, Send Attachment in Email in PHP

Send Email Attachment in PHP

Hello friends today i am going to provide a tutorial regarding how to send email attachment in PHP. For a normal mail sending you can visit my previous article in which you will learn how to send mail in php how to send email in php In this tutorial you will get the whole code and its really a very short code to send the attachment. Sending an email attachment in php is not an easy task many time you will get the errors like file is of 0 kb, file name is something else, email is delivered but no you dont get the mail etc. In this tutorial / Example you will get he procedure of how to send the email attachment in php.

Demo Link

Things we need to send email attachment in php

• HTML Form
• PHP Code

Email sending HTML Form

First we will start with the html for. In html form we will use the these text fields

• To – On which mail is delivered
• Message – Message which is to be delivered
• Subject – Subject for the Email
• Attachment – Email attachment which you want to send

Below is the HTML code for email sending

<form id="attach" name="attach" method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]; ?>" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<table>
<tr>
<td>To</td><td>:</td><td><input type="text" name="to" id="to"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Subject</td><td>:</td><td><input type="text" name="subject" id="subject"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Message</td><td>:</td><td><input type="text" name="msg" id="msg"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Attachment<span class="imp">*</span></td><td>:</td><td><input type="file" name="upload" id="upload"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td><td></td><td><input type="submit" value="Submit" id="send" name="send"></td>
</tr>
</table>
 </form>

Now we have finished with our html form. Lets move to our PHP code

Email attachment php code

Here will write the PHP code for the attachment sending with the help of php.


First we will receive our data and retain that data below is the code

$upload_name=$_FILES["upload"]["name"];
$upload_type=$_FILES["upload"]["type"];
$upload_size=$_FILES["upload"]["size"];
$upload_temp=$_FILES["upload"]["tmp_name"];
$message=$_POST["msg"];
$subject = $_POST["subject"];
$to=$_POST["to"];

Now we will send the email with attachment in php

if(isset ($_POST["send"]))
 {
    $upload_name=$_FILES["upload"]["name"];
    $upload_type=$_FILES["upload"]["type"];
    $upload_size=$_FILES["upload"]["size"];
    $upload_temp=$_FILES["upload"]["tmp_name"];
    $message=$_POST["msg"];
    $subject = $_POST["subject"];
    $to=$_POST["to"];

    if($message==""||$subject==""||$to=="")
    {
        echo '<font style="font-family:Verdana, Arial; font-size:11px; color:#F3363F; font-weight:bold">Please fill all fields</font>';
    }
    else
    {
        $fp = fopen($upload_temp, "rb");
    $file = fread($fp, $upload_size);

    $file = chunk_split(base64_encode($file));
    $num = md5(time());

        //Normal headers

    $headers  = "From: Info Mail<vivek@simplyitsols.com>\r\n";
       $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

    $headers .= "Message-ID: <".gettimeofday()." TheSystem@".$_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

    $headers  .= "Content-Type:".$upload_type." ";
       $headers  .= "name=\"".$upload_name."\"r\n";
       $headers  .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n";
       $headers  .= "Content-Disposition: attachment; ";
       $headers  .= "filename=\"".$upload_name."\"\r\n\n";
       $headers  .= "".$file."\r\n";
       $headers  .= "--".$num."--";
    // SEND MAIL
       @mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
     fclose($fp);

    echo '<font style="font-family:Verdana, Arial; font-size:11px; color:#333333; font-weight:bold">Attachment has been sent Successfully.<br /></font>';
 }
 }

From the above demo you can check this or click the below link to check it on separate page. Below is the working code you can download it also.