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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

include("chilkat.php");

$success = false;

//  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 CkEmail();
$email->put_Subject('Attach from BinData');
$email->put_Body('Please see the attached file.');

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

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

print 'NumAttachments = ' . $email->get_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.

?>