Send HTML mail with attachment using Pear’s Mail
To send proper HTML e-mails, with attachments and other features, it’s best to use PEAR’s Mail_Mime package. You can easily install this package using pear binary included in PHP distribution.
You might also have to install PEAR Mail package using the command pear install Mail_mime.
:~# pear install Mail_mime downloading Mail_Mime-X.Y.Z.tgz ... Starting to download Mail_Mime-X.Y.Z.tgz (31,337 bytes) .....done: 31,337 bytes install ok: channel://pear.php.net/Mail_Mime-X.Y.Z :~#
Mail_mime package is installed. In default PHP configuration, when you have PEAR installed, PEAR include directory will already be configured in include_path, so you can simply include Mail/mime.php script, and you have Mail_mime ready for use.
Here’s an example on how to compose HTML and plain text e-mail message with one Excel report as attachment (you might have created it with PHP Excel writer).
// require PEAR Mail and Mail_mime classes
require('Mail.php');
require('Mail/mime.php');
// define recipient
$recipient = 'boss@example.com';
// define local path to excel file
$xlsFilename = 'report_for_boss.xlsx';
// define mail headers
$headers = array('From' => 'Reporter <reporter@example.com>',
'To' => $recipient,
'Subject' => 'Report for boss'
);
$mime = new Mail_mime("\n");
// if client reading this mail, reads only text-part (or cannot read HTML messages),
// he'll see this text body message
$mime->setTXTBody('This is a text part of the message.');
// if client reading this email, reads HTML (multi-part) messages,
// he'll see this HTML body message
$mime->setHTMLBody('<html><body>This is the HTML part of the message</body></html>');
// now, we'll add local file as an attachment. Second argument is a mime type
// specification for XLSX filetype.
$mime->addAttachment($xlsFilename,
'application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet',
$xlsFilename);
// get body of the e-mail message from Mail_mime class.
$body = $mime->get();
// get headers
$hdrs = $mime->headers($headers);
// now, lets send e-mail using the PEAR Mail class.
$mail = Mail::factory('mail');
$mail->send($recipient, $hdrs, $body);
// that's it!
This is the basic all-in-one example on how to send multi-part e-mail messages. You can also add images to e-mail, etc. You can read more about PEAR Mail_mime class here.