Add File Attachments to an Email

Demonstrates how to add one or more file attachments to an email.

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<?php

$email = new COM("Chilkat.Email2");

$email->Subject = 'This is a test';
$email->Body = 'This is a test';
$email->From = 'support@chilkatsoft.com';
$email->AddTo('Chilkat Admin','admin@chilkatsoft.com');

//  To add file attachments to an email, call AddFileAttachment
//  once for each file to be attached.  The method returns
//  the content-type of the attachment if successful, otherwise
//  returns cknull

$contentType = $email->addFileAttachment('something.pdf');
if (is_null($contentType)) {
    print $email->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

$contentType = $email->addFileAttachment('something.xml');
if (is_null($contentType)) {
    print $email->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

$contentType = $email->addFileAttachment('something.zip');
if (is_null($contentType)) {
    print $email->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

$success = $email->SaveEml('email.eml');
if ($success == false) {
    print $email->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

print 'Saved EML!' . "\n";
?>