Send attachement with mail()?

Hi, I would like to send a blank email with an image attchment, but I can't figure out how to send an attachment.

 

Manually adding attachments on the mail() function will require you to read the contents and encode it to base64

So it looks somewhat like this:

Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n
Content-Type: application/zip; name="test_file.zip"\n
\n
BASE64 ENCODED DATA HERE

Code (markup):

http://www.php.net/function.mail (pretty much always useful comments at php.net for whatever you're trying to do with a function, just scroll down.) There's some examples there

If you don't have time for to bother about that I'd recommend using PHPMailer (phpmailer.sourceforge.net) instead which is much easier, example:

<?php
      require("class.phpmailer.php");
      $mail = new phpmailer();
      $mail->From = 'me@mydomain.com';
      $mail->FromName = "My Site's Name";
      $mail->Subject = 'Email Subject';
      $mail->Body = "Here you can enter the body text for the email.
      In fact it can:
      >Span
      >Multiple Lines just like that!";
       
      $mail->AddAddress("joe@brown.com","Joe Brown");
      $mail->AddAttachment("./picture.jpg");
      $mail->AddAttachment("./picture2.jpg");
      $mail->Send();
      ?>

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