php Mailing of gzip file

Regular Joined: Jan 24, 2008 Posts: 58

I have created scripts to automatically execute a set of php commands automatically at a time interval I specify. The function I would like to do when this automatic function is called is to create an email and attach a gzip file and send it to a gmail account.

In a nutshell what is the php code or commands required to send an email with attachment that is a gzip to a gmail account.

My server does not support mutt and since this is a backup file I can not afford bit loses that occur with the standard php mail command.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks

Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 11:07 am

The standard php mail() function doesn't lose bits, I'm not sure what you mean.

As for adding an attachment, I dunno, you might have to add a header to your message along with the properly encoded version of your attachment.

Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 11:18 am

If you google for "php mail attachments" a few interesting things turn up.

Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 4:55 pm

First thanks for the help Gremmie Very Happy

Gremmie wrote:

The standard php mail() function doesn't lose bits, I'm not sure what you mean.

My concern about bit loss is based on several references I have seen as I was trying to get up to speed on mail commands in php and cron

here is one from [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ]

base64_encode — Encodes data with MIME base64

Description
string base64_encode ( string $data )
Encodes the given data with base64.

This encoding is designed to make binary data survive transport through transport layers that are not 8-bit clean, such as mail bodies.

Base64-encoded data takes about 33% more space than the original data.

Sorry gremmie I could not get back to other examples of things I have read that made me believe that I need to makesure the mail protocal/command/options is consistent/compatible with the data I attach.

Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 5:23 pm

Oh okay. Yeah that is why you have to set the proper MIME header on your attachment. If you google, you'll see example scripts that do this.

Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 7:35 am

Gremmie,

I have achieved my objective (email gzip file via php) with the following script:

Code:

//  start send mail of backup


      $date = date('Y-m-d');


      $mail_from = "BIA auto";                                             // email from


      $mail_to = "your email";                                          // email destination


      $filename2 = "file location with filename";            // name of file to email


      


      $senddate = date("Y-m-d@h-ia");


      $subject = "Automatic Database Email of Cron Backup - $senddate";








      $fileatt_type = filetype($filename2);


      $fileatt_name = str_replace("/", "", strrchr($filename2, "/"));





      $file = fopen($filename2, 'rb');


      $data = fread($file,filesize($filename2));


      fclose($file);


      $data = chunk_split(base64_encode($data));





      $semi_rand = md5(time());


      $mime_boundary = "==Multipart_Boundary_x{$semi_rand}x";





      $headers = "From: $mail_from <$mail_from>\n";


      $headers.= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";


      $headers.= "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;\n";


      $headers.= " boundary=\"{$mime_boundary}\"";





      $message = "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n\n";


      $message.= "--{$mime_boundary}\n";


      $message.= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n";


      $message.= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n";


      $message.= "$dbres";


      $message. "\n\n";


      $message.= "--{$mime_boundary}\n";


      $message.= "Content-Type: {$fileatt_type};\n";


      $message.= " name=\"{$fileatt_name}\"\n";


      $message.= "Content-Disposition: attachment;\n";


      $message.= " filename=\"{$fileatt_name}\"\n";


      $message.= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n\n";


      $message.= $data . "\n\n";


      $message.= "--{$mime_boundary}--\n";





      // Send the message


      $check2 = @mail($mail_to, $subject, $message, $headers, "-f$mail_from");


             


      


//  end send mail of backup

Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 9:30 am

Nice research work! Awesome.