How To Send Email With Attachments in PHP

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//Send Email With Attachment in PHP - Veewom
<?php

//receiver of the email
$to = 'username@example.com';

//subject of the email
$subject = 'Send email with attachment';

$random_hash = md5(date('r', time()));

//define the headers.
$headers = "From: Veewom Reply-To: noreply@veewom.com";

//mime type specification
$headers .= "rnContent-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="PHP-mixed-".$random_hash.""";

//read the atachment file contents into a string,

//encode the contents with MIME base64,

//and split the contents  into smaller chunks using given below function

$attachments = chunk_split(base64_encode(file_get_contents('file.zip')));

//define the body of the message.
ob_start(); //Turn on output buffering
?>
Hello!!!
This is simple text email message.
--PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?> 
Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
<h2>Hello!</h2>
<p>This is something with <b>HTML</b> formatting.</p>
--PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>--
--PHP-mixed-<?php echo $random_hash; ?> 
Content-Type: application/zip; name="file.zip" 
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 
Content-Disposition: attachment 

<?php echo $attachment; ?>
--PHP-mixed-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>--

<?php
//copy current buffer contents into $message
$message = ob_get_clean();
//send the email
$mail_sent = @mail( $to, $subject, $message, $headers );
//if the message is sent successfully print "Mail sent". Otherwise print "Mail failed"
echo $mail_sent ? "Mail sent" : "Mail failed";
?>

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