email with attachment

[misslilbit02]

Hi,

I'm trying to send an email with an attachment on a windows and I'm running into problems. I don't get any errors but the email is not being sent for sending the mail.

My code is below:

// Generate a boundary string
  $semi_rand = md5(time());
  $mime_boundary = "==Multipart_Boundary_x{$semi_rand}x";
  
  // Add the headers for a file attachment
  $headers .= "\nMIME-Version: 1.0\n" .
              "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;\n" .
              " boundary=\"{$mime_boundary}\"";

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


echo $message;

  // Base64 encode the file data
  $data = chunk_split(base64_encode($data));
  
  //echo $data;

  // Add file attachment to the message
  $message .= "--{$mime_boundary}\n" .
              "Content-Type: {$fileatt_type};\n" .
              " name=\"{$fileatt_name}\"\n" .
              //"Content-Disposition: attachment;\n" .
              //" filename=\"{$fileatt_name}\"\n" .
              "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n\n" .
              $data . "\n\n" .
              "--{$mime_boundary}--\n";
}

// Send the message 
$ok = @mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers); 


if ($ok) { 
 echo "<p>Mail sent! Yay PHP!</p>"; 
} else { 
 echo "<p>Mail could not be sent. Sorry!</p>"; 
} 

Can someone please help me resolve this issue.

[longneck]

any particular reason you're trying to reinvent the wheel re: MIME encoding? there are plenty of proven libraries out there for that. for example, PEAR.

[misslilbit02]

Well because I'm a novice and I can't really explain how to install things to my boss. It hard going back and forth with php.ini files and file installations especially since I don't have access to the server where everything is located and I constantly have to bother him when things aren't working. I do know this is the long way around but it's less a pain in the butt in that respect.

[Raju Gautam]

I will suggest you to download PHPMailer and use it. that will work for you perfectly which i am using since last 1 year. Simple steps are there to integrate too. But i have not worked yet with Windows servers.

[longneck]

you don't need access to the ini files and such to use PEAR.