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Emailing with enclosures from a web page
Further Web Page and Network Handling example from a Well House Consultants training course
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Source code: phpemenc Module: H112
# Code sample / snippet. /* In the right circumstances, emailing from a web server is useful. In the wrong circumstances, it's annoying to the recipient and it may also be illegal. See module A213 for some further guidance on this under British (and specifically English) law. If in any doubt, check with a qualified law firm (which we are NOT) */ $f = "/etc/httpd/logs/access_log"; $boundary = md5(uniqid(time())); $handle = fopen($f,"r"); $content = chunk_split(base64_encode(fread($handle, filesize($f)))); $head = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n". "Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"$boundary \"". "\r\n\r\nThis is a multipart message in MIME format". "\r\n\r\n"; $msg = "--$boundary\n". "Content-type: text/plain; charset=ascii\r\n". "Content-transfer-encoding: 8 bit\r\n\r\n". "Access Log file from PHP - sample\r\n". "--$boundary\r\n". "Content-type: application/octet-stream; name=access_log\r\n". "Content-transfer-encoding: base64\r\n\r\n". "$content". "--$boundary--\r\n"; mail("graham@wellho.net","Access Logs",$msg,$head); /* uniqid ... provides a unique ID based on the time md5 ... calculates the md5 hash of a string base64_encode ... encodes a string to the base 64 standard chunk_split ... divides a line of text into 76 character chunks, separating each with a new line sequence The $boundary variable is set to be a unique 32-character string which acts as a separator between each of the multiple parts in the document. Each document part has a header stating the content type and the encoding method, followed by a body of data. The boundary is repeated at the very end, with -- on the end of it to tell the mail reader that it's done. */ Learn about this subject
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