Perl

Set the Email Body from a BinData

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.SetBodyBd method, which sets the main email body from the binary data in a BinData object. The second argument is the MIME Content-Type, the third is the disposition (may be empty, inline, or attachment), and the fourth is the filename. This example loads HTML content into a BinData and sets it as the body.

Background: SetBodyBd gives low-level control over the body when you already have its bytes and want to specify the exact Content-Type and MIME disposition yourself. It suits content that is generated or stored as binary — for example an EDI payload, a pre-rendered HTML fragment, or any custom content type — where the convenience of SetHtmlBody / SetTextBody does not apply.

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use chilkat();

$success = 0;

#  Demonstrates the SetBodyBd method, which sets the main email body from the binary data in
#  a BinData object.  The second argument is the MIME Content-Type, the third is the
#  disposition (may be empty, "inline", or "attachment"), and the fourth is the filename.

$email = chilkat::CkEmail->new();
$email->put_Subject("Body from BinData");

#  Load the body content from a file into a BinData object.
$bd = chilkat::CkBinData->new();
$success = $bd->LoadFile("qa_data/html/body.html");
if ($success == 0) {
    print $bd->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

#  Set the main body from the binary data as text/html.
$success = $email->SetBodyBd($bd,"text/html","","");
if ($success == 0) {
    print $email->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

print "HasHtmlBody: " . $email->HasHtmlBody() . "\r\n";

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