PHP send an email with image attachment

Question

I\'m trying to create a script that will send an image uploaded from an iphone app I\'m developing to me in an email.

I\'ve been able to get the script to send me an

Answer 1

While there are canned functions for this, what a fantastic exercise for a junior programmer!

Very well written mti2935. It would do folks good to actually read and not just cut-and-paste. If you're sending email with php, you should understand these fundamental concepts.

Probably some oversights from masking your real code:

Line 23 should be:

$data = fread($file,filesize($filename));

That is, $fname should be $filename.

Line 26 should be:

$message .= "Content-Type: {\"application/octet-stream\"};\n" . " name=\"".$fname."\"\n" .

Neither $x nor $files[$x] are defined.

@Thomas Spade: I'd like to remind that you should always sanitize input (email address).