PHP

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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<?php

use Chilkat2\Email;

// 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 = new Email();
$email->Subject = 'Email with a file attachment';
$email->Body = 'Please see the attached file.';

// Attach a file.  The return value is the auto-detected content type.
try {
    $contentType = $email->AddFileAttachment('qa_data/attachments/report.pdf');
} catch (\Chilkat2\Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage(), "\n";
    exit;
}

echo 'Attached content type = ', $contentType, "\n";
echo 'NumAttachments = ', $email->NumAttachments, "\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.