Perl

Attach a File to an Email

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.AddFileAttachment method, which attaches a file read from the filesystem. It returns the content type Chilkat assigned to the attachment (inferred from the file extension). This example attaches a PDF and prints its detected content type.

Background: Each attachment carries a Content-Type (MIME type) such as application/pdf or image/png that tells the receiving client how to handle it. Chilkat gets this from the file's extension. Because attachment bytes are binary, they are Base64-encoded for transport, which is handled automatically — you simply point AddFileAttachment at a path and the file is read, encoded, and packaged into the message.

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use chilkat();

#  Demonstrates the AddFileAttachment method, which attaches a file read from the
#  filesystem.  It returns the content type Chilkat assigned to the attachment (based on
#  the file extension), or returns failure if the file could not be read.

$email = chilkat::CkEmail->new();
$email->put_Subject("Email with a file attachment");
$email->put_Body("Please see the attached file.");

#  Attach a file.  The return value is the auto-detected content type.
$contentType = $email->addFileAttachment("qa_data/attachments/report.pdf");
if ($email->get_LastMethodSuccess() == 0) {
    print $email->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

print "Attached content type = " . $contentType . "\r\n";
print "NumAttachments = " . $email->get_NumAttachments() . "\r\n";

#  Note: The path "qa_data/attachments/report.pdf" is a relative local filesystem path,
#  relative to the current working directory of the running application.