HTML Email Form; Image Attach

Corey Bryant · Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 8:55 am

Once the user has their e-mail opened, your coding has stopped from there. It will be up to the user to find the e-mail.

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tucker · Joined: 31 May 2008 Posts: 1

hello joined the forum today aftr reading this thread aftr a lot of reasearch i can now add a image to a contact form

html code is a simple form

html folder
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>
<form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="test.php" method = "post" >

<p>
<input type="file" name="attachment" />
</p>

<p> </p>
<p>

<input name="submit" type="submit" </form>
</body>
</html>

the php folder is
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
$mime_boundary = "<<<--==+X[".md5(time())."]";
$file = $_POST ['attachment'];
$headers .= "From: Automatic <chrisatdirectelitewebsites.co.uk>\r\n";
$headers .= "To:yourname<yournameatwebmail.co.uk>\r\n";

$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;\r\n";
$headers .= " boundary=\"".$mime_boundary."\"";

$message .= "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\r\n";
$message .= "\r\n";
$message .= "--".$mime_boundary."\r\n";

$message .= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\r\n";
$message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\r\n";
$message .= "\r\n";
$message .= "Email content and what not: \r\n";
$message .= "This is the file you asked for! \r\n";
$message .= "--".$mime_boundary."\r\n";

$message .= "Content-Type: application/octet-stream;\r\n";
$message .= "attachment=\"filename.extn\"\r\n";
$message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable\r\n";
$message .= "Content-Disposition: attachment;\r\n";
$message .= " filename=\"filename.extn\"\r\n";
$message .= "\r\n";
$message .= $file;
$message .= "\r\n";
$message .= "--".$mime_boundary."\r\n";

$ok = mail("yournameatwebsite.co.uk", "file by email", $message, $headers, $file);

?>
</body>
</html>

this will attach a image to an email the problem is its sending me a .dat extension that i carnt open and i am attaching a .jpg so its a start if any one can make this work please help me,i have only beeen learning php 2 weeks so dont think i have done to bad thank you