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Add an Attachment from a BinData Object

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.AddAttachmentBd method, which adds an attachment using the contents of a BinData object. The first argument is the attachment filename, the second is the BinData, and the third is the content type — if empty, it is inferred from the filename extension. This example loads a PDF into a BinData and attaches it.

Background: BinData is Chilkat's container for raw binary data. Attaching from a BinData is the right approach when the file's bytes are already in memory — generated on the fly, downloaded, or read from a database — rather than sitting on disk (which would use AddFileAttachment). Chilkat Base64-encodes the bytes into the message automatically.

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<?php

$success = 0;

//  Demonstrates the AddAttachmentBd method, which adds an attachment using the contents of a
//  BinData object.  The first argument is the attachment filename, the second is the BinData
//  object, and the third is the content type (inferred from the filename extension if empty).

$email = new COM("Chilkat.Email");
$email->Subject = 'Attach from BinData';
$email->Body = 'Please see the attached file.';

//  Load a file into a BinData object, then attach it.
$bd = new COM("Chilkat.BinData");
$success = $bd->LoadFile('qa_data/attachments/report.pdf');
if ($success == 0) {
    print $bd->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

$success = $email->AddAttachmentBd('report.pdf',$bd,'application/pdf');
if ($success == 0) {
    print $email->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

print '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.

?>