| Re: CLP - ON TOPIC! - Need PHP form email help, Please! [message #173135 is a reply to message #173104] |
Wed, 23 March 2011 19:08   |
The Natural Philosoph
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Tim wrote:
> In article <imbdle$g3p$1(at)news(dot)eternal-september(dot)org>, Jerry Stuckle
> <jstucklex(at)attglobal(dot)net> wrote:
>
>> On 3/22/2011 7:11 PM, Tim wrote:
>>> In article<im9v9g$jj9$1(at)news(dot)eternal-september(dot)org>, Jerry Stuckle
>>> <jstucklex(at)attglobal(dot)net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 3/22/2011 12:03 AM, Tim wrote:
>>>> > In article<im93gr$8bp$1(at)news(dot)eternal-september(dot)org>, Jerry Stuckle
>>>> > <jstucklex(at)attglobal(dot)net> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >> On 3/21/2011 6:31 PM, Tim wrote:
>>>> >>> I have a form in which the user can upload a photo, which is then sent
>>>> >>> to me along with the other data on the form. I have formatted the data
>>>> >>> into an HTML email with the photo attached. I would like the photo
>>>> >>> embedded in a specific place on the page, but I have not found the code
>>>> >>> to do this and don't know enough about it to write the code myself.
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> It would also be nice to be able to have the photo, once uploaded, to
>>>> >>> replace the upload button and associated text on the page in the place
>>>> >>> I want the photo to appear. Then maybe send the page as is as an HTML
>>>> >>> email?
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>>> >> And your PHP question is?
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Sounds more like you need to learn how to format the email correctly,
>>>> >> which is an email/HTML question. Try a more appropriate newsgroup
>>>> >> (maybe alt.html - I don't know).
>>>> > The problem is not formatting the email, the problem is getting the php
>>>> > to take the image, whose name I can't know, and embedding it into the
>>>> > email. The php code constructs the email using my template and the data
>>>> > input by the user. Since I don't know the name of the file, and it is
>>>> > stored in a temp directory, I need the code that will place the image
>>>> > where I want it. In other words: it needs to convert the filename into
>>>> > the appropriate "<img src" html.
>>>> >
>>>> > I'm sure this seems very simple to all the code gurus, but I have found
>>>> > nothing that even comes close to this in any of the tutorials I have
>>>> > read.
>>>> >
>>>> > I have thought about saving the images to a permanent directory and
>>>> > changing the name to make the html easier, but there are several
>>>> > reasons to keep the original name and I don't want to keep the images
>>>> > on the server. So I need some php to assemble the html using unknown
>>>> > values.
>>>> >
>>>> > So far I have the image attached to the email, but not embedded. My
>>>> > attempt at embedding it resulted in the filename being displayed where
>>>> > the image should be. So it is not just a matter of html formatting.
>>>> Well, you've got the image in the email; all you need is to get it to
>>>> work with the html. You already have the file name, etc - or you
>>>> wouldn't have been able to attack it to the email.
>>>>
>>>> So, what is the result you want? Not something nebulous such as
>>>> "convert the filename into the appropriate"<img src" html" - EXACTLY
>>>> what do you want? I.e. if I send you example.jpg, what does the
>>>> resultant raw html in your email look like?
>>>>
>>>> Once you can answer that, your PHP code is easy.
>>> OK. To be more clear, I have a form in which the user fills in some
>>> information and uploads a headshot. the email is formatted the same as
>>> the form except I want the image to appear next to the information
>>> instead of attached. The info is down the left side and the image on
>>> the right. There is more info under all of that.
>>>
>>> I used Forms to Go to create the original form handler. The id for the
>>> image is $FTGheadshot. Simply placing that into the html output section
>>> (like this: headshot : $FTGheadshot<br />) just gets me the file's name
>>> in the space for the image.
>>>
>>> Looking at the code, now that I have learned a little more about it, I
>>> am thinking that I should put this: $_FILES['headshot']['tmp_name']
>>> there instead. Would that be right? Isn't that the part that connects
>>> the actual file with the FTG assigned variable?
>>>
>>> Previously it said: $FTGheadshot = $_FILES['headshot']['name'];
>>>
>>> Am I on the right track with this?
>> No, you're not, and creating an html email with embedded images is not
>> easy - but it is NOT a PHP question.
>>
>> First of all you need to figure out how to create the email in the first
>> place. Then you can worry about the PHP code needed to create it.
>>
>> Get a working page in your favorite email program first and see what the
>> source looks like. That will help you.
>>
>> Right now you're trying to create something with no idea what you're
>> creating. You can keep using trial and error methods and maybe get
>> there. Or you can do as I first suggested and find out how to create
>> the email you want first, ignoring any language considerations.
>
> I looked at an email with images both attached and embedded: the same
> images in both. The line that placed the image inline looks like this:
>
> <IMG=20
> id=3DMA2.1289279864 border=3D0=20
> =
> src=3D"cid:4EDBE5C8B2CC44F8ADDD6F853B321989@desktop619"=20
> width=3D480 height=3D604=20
> =
> DATASIZE=3D"144908">
>
> Where "cid:4EDBE5C8B2CC44F8ADDD6F853B321989@desktop619" is the Content
> ID. Obviously this is something that is compiled by the email program
> when the email is sent. Since HTML can not create itself, I need some
> code to do it.
>
So write it.
You also need to look at the mail *headers*. Beause thats where the
parts are defined so that "cid:4EDBE5C8B2CC44F8ADDD6F853B321989@desktop619"
actually means something.
> I have created the email, as I said, and it works perfectly other than
> this image issue. The source for the emails from this form look like
> this:
>
Ok, Not sure if this works or not.
Create a message body as HTML and include in it, this
<img width= "480" src="cid:Logo2.gif" alt="logo"> where you want the
picture.
Now here is my function to create a multipart mime message and send it.
De wrap it because the exact syntax of the headers is crucial
Pass a proper HTML page to it, as $body but don't get smart. Outlook
understands Tables, but not Divs.
I think this more or less works: it should serve as a starting point anyway.
function mail_html_file($email, $subject,$from,$return_path,$body)
{
$attach=
chunk_split(base64_encode(file_get_contents('../Images/Logo2.gif')));
$boundary = md5( time() );
$headers = sprintf("From: %s\nMIME-Version: 1.0\nContent-Type:
multipart/related; boundary=\"%s\"",
$from, $boundary);
$message = sprintf("--%s\nContent-Type: text/html;
charset=\"iso-9959-1\"\nContent-Transfer-Encoding:
quoted-printable\n\n%s\n\n--%s\nContent-Type: Image/gif;
name=\"Logo.gif\"\nContent-ID: <Logo2.gif>\nContent-Transfer-Encoding:
base64\n\n%s\n\n--%s--\n",
$boundary,$body,$boundary,$attach,$boundary);
mail($email, $subject, $message, $headers, "-f ".$return_path );
}
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