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Re: Email attachment 0bytes using php4

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On Fri, 16 Aug 2013 12:09:36 -0700 (PDT), Dave Drekter wrote:
> Ok, don't holler at me, I understand php4 is no longer.  That said, for many reasons it's not possible to upgrade to php5 and use phpMailer - as much as I'd like to. I've searched around and there's no other answer presented. So, here's the problem. I create a text file /tmp2/tmporder2 
>
> The code below sends the email fine with the attachment, but the attachment contains 0 bytes, NADA.
>
><?php
> $path = '/tmp2';
> $filename = 'tmporder2';
> $mailto = 'dave@powerfulhosting.com';
> $from_mail = 'estore order receipt';
>  $from_name = 'bagelworks order';
>  $replyto = '';
>  $subject = 'TESTING EMAIL ATTACHMENT';
>
>     $file = $path.$filename;
No slash here? What's in '/tmp2tmporder2'?

>     $file_size = filesize($file);
>     $handle = fopen($file, "r");
>     $content = fread($handle, $file_size);
>     fclose($handle);
>     $message=$handle;
What's this supposed to do? It looks like you're trying to put the same
text file into the text plain part *and* as a base64 encoded version of
the same thing. Maybe you are, but that just seems like a fantastic way
to add a lot of obscure redundancy.

>
>     $content = chunk_split(base64_encode($content));
>     $uid = md5(uniqid(time()));
>     $name = basename($file);
>     $header = "From: ".$from_name." <".$from_mail.">\r\n";
>     $header .= "Reply-To: ".$replyto."\r\n";
>     $header .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
>     $header .= "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"".$uid."\"\r\n\r\n";
>     $header .= "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\r\n";
>     $header .= "--".$uid."\r\n";
>     $header .= "Content-type:text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
>     $header .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\r\n\r\n";
>     $header .= $message."\r\n\r\n";
>     $header .= "--".$uid."\r\n";
>     $header .= "Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name=\"".$filename."\"\r\n"; // use different content types here
>     $header .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n";
>     $header .= "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"".$filename."\"\r\n\r\n";
>     $header .= $content."\r\n\r\n";
>     $header .= "--".$uid."--";
>     if (mail($mailto, $subject, "", $header)) {
>         echo "mail send ... OK"; // or use booleans here
>     } else {
>         echo "mail send ... ERROR!";
>     }
> ?>
>
> Any ideas why the attached file is blank? 


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Email attachment 0bytes using php4 Dave Drekter <powerfulhosting@gmail.com> - 2013-08-16 12:09 -0700
  Re: Email attachment 0bytes using php4 Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2013-08-16 21:26 +0200
    Re: Email attachment 0bytes using php4 Dave Drekter <powerfulhosting@gmail.com> - 2013-08-16 12:37 -0700
  Re: Email attachment 0bytes using php4 Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-08-16 15:32 -0400
  Re: Email attachment 0bytes using php4 "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> - 2013-08-16 14:42 -0500
  Re: Email attachment 0bytes using php4 Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2013-08-16 21:57 +0200
  Re: Email attachment 0bytes using php4 The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-08-16 21:50 +0100

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