Application Code - PHPIn this article we will look at the protocol that is involved in sending email messages. We will also examine the thorny issue of how to send an attachment with an email message. This article is the second of two parts.
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In our application we will be creating a form that will collect the mail data for us, then we will process and send the data over to the mail function, which will then send the mail message. Below is the code that makes up our very simple demonstration application: <? //is form submitted if(isset($_POST['key'])){ //collect the information $from=$email; $cc=$_POST['cc']; $bcc=$_POST['bcc']; if(empty($_POST['tos'])){ $error=true; }else{ $to=$_POST['tos']; } if(empty($_POST['sub'])){ $error=true; }else{ $subject=$_POST['sub']; } if(empty($_POST['msg'])){ $error=true; }else{ $msg=$_POST['msg']; } //check if the an attachment is present if(isset($_FILES['userfile']['name'])){ $attachment = $_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'], $_FILES['userfile']['name']; $headers ="Content-disposition: attachment; $filename=.$attachment."n"; $headers=.Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64n"; } if(!$error){ $res=mail($to,$subject,$msg,$headers); } if(!$res){ echo "Mail error occurred"; } } ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <title>Untitled Document</title> </head> <body> <span class="style2">Sending Mail With PHP</span> <form name="form1" method="post" action="newmsg.php"> <table width="100%" border="0" class="block"> <tr> <td width="10%" valign="top"><strong>To</strong></td> <td width="90%"><input name="tos" type="text" id="to" size="70" value="esme@holidays.com"/></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><strong>Cc</strong></td> <td><input name="cc" type="text" id="cc" size="70" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><strong>Bcc</strong></td> <td><input name="bcc" type="text" id="bcc" size="70" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><strong>Subject</strong></td> <td><input name="sub" type="text" id="sub" size="70" /> <input type="hidden" name="hkey" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><strong>Attachment</strong></td> <td> <input name="userfile" type="file" id="userfile" size="70" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><strong>Message:</strong></td> <td><label> <textarea name="msg" cols="50" rows="10"></textarea> </label></td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Send Message" /> </td> </tr> </table> </form> </body> </html> The code above produces the following form:
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