Programmer's Reference Guide

HTML E-Mail

Attachments

Files can be attached to an e-mail using the createAttachment() method. The default behavior of Zend_Mail is to assume the attachment is a binary object (application/octet-stream), that it should be transferred with base64 encoding, and that it is handled as an attachment. These assumptions can be overridden by passing more parameters to createAttachment():

Example #1 E-Mail Messages with Attachments

$mail = new Zend_Mail();
// build message...
$mail->createAttachment($someBinaryString);
$mail->createAttachment($myImage,
                        'image/gif',
                        Zend_Mime::DISPOSITION_INLINE,
                        Zend_Mime::ENCODING_BASE64);

If you want more control over the MIME part generated for this attachment you can use the return value of createAttachment() to modify its attributes. The createAttachment() method returns a Zend_Mime_Part object:

$mail = new Zend_Mail();
 
$at = $mail->createAttachment($myImage);
$at->type        = 'image/gif';
$at->disposition = Zend_Mime::DISPOSITION_INLINE;
$at->encoding    = Zend_Mime::ENCODING_BASE64;
$at->filename    = 'test.gif';
 
$mail->send();

An alternative is to create an instance of Zend_Mime_Part and add it with addAttachment():

$mail = new Zend_Mail();
 
$at = new Zend_Mime_Part($myImage);
$at->type        = 'image/gif';
$at->disposition = Zend_Mime::DISPOSITION_INLINE;
$at->encoding    = Zend_Mime::ENCODING_BASE64;
$at->filename    = 'test.gif';
 
$mail->addAttachment($at);
 
$mail->send();

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Comments

Posted by: Pavel Kostenko on: 2010-08-05 04:45:31 ⁋

Didn't understand what kind of data should be in variable $myImage

Posted by: Sam on: 2010-08-17 06:46:44 ⁋

@Pavel--
$myImage should be a binary string. A binary string can be obtained with file_get_contents() method. Here is an example:

$myImage = file_get_contents('logo.png');
$at = $mail->createAttachment($myImage);
$at->filename = 'logo.png';

Posted by: Sam on: 2010-08-17 06:47:18 ⁋

Posted by: Ivan on: 2011-01-10 05:37:11 ⁋

For multipart/mixed messages there is no difference of MIME part generated for attachment, in both case they are between mixed MIME boundary:
$at->disposition = Zend_Mime::DISPOSITION_INLINE;
and $at->disposition = Zend_Mime::DISPOSITION_ATTACHMENT;
so in Thunderbird html mail with embedded images are not displayed.

According to this art. http://www.phpeveryday.com/articles/PHP-Email-Using-Embedded-Images-in-HTML-Email-P113.html and some wiki art., for embedded images, Zend_Mime::DISPOSITION_INLINE must place image to be part of text/html related MIME boundary, wich is not case.
Is It a Bug or ?

Thank You

Posted by: Colin Guthrie on: 2011-01-20 14:40:10 ⁋

@Ivan: If I understand you correctly, I've implemented the missing functionality in ZF-10970

Posted by: Nguyễn Tiến Pa Ven on: 2011-07-06 05:58:16 ⁋

Hi All
khi tôi làm thế này mà vẫn khong send được mail không biết là có lỗi gì hoặc sai ở đâu ?

when I do this and still not send the mail does not know what error or wrong?

$at = new Zend_Mime_Part('/hoc/email/trunk/public/upload/uploads/GsNJNwuI-UM.gif');
$at->type = 'image/gif';
$at->disposition = Zend_Mime::DISPOSITION_INLINE;
$at->encoding = Zend_Mime::ENCODING_BASE64;
$at->filename = '/hoc/email/trunk/public/upload/uploads/GsNJNwuI-UM.gif';
$mail->addAttachment($at);

help me

Posted by: Nguyễn Tiến Pa Ven on: 2011-07-06 09:10:53 ⁋

Hi All
I have found a method and all references. The following is an example

$myImage = file_get_contents('upload/uploads/avatar.jpg');
$at = new Zend_Mime_Part($myImage);
$at->type = 'image/gif';
$at->disposition = Zend_Mime::DISPOSITION_INLINE;
$at->encoding = Zend_Mime::ENCODING_BASE64;
$at->filename = 'avatar.jpg';
$mail->addAttachment($at);