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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

//  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 COM("Chilkat.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.
$contentType = $email->addFileAttachment('qa_data/attachments/report.pdf');
if ($email->LastMethodSuccess == 0) {
    print $email->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

print 'Attached content type = ' . $contentType . "\n";
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.

?>