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PHPMailer and Inline Images

Been trying to find out how to send inline image attachments in a HTML email this afternoon, and my plodding eventually lead me to try PHPMailer after mucking about with some other class thing that didn’t do as I wanted.

After much stumbling about (a lot, considering I only wanted to do one thing) I came up with this:

<?

  include(‘class.phpmailer.php’);


  $mail=new phpmailer();

  $mail->From    =’sender@domain.com’;

  $mail->FromName=’D';

  $mail->Host    =’localhost’;

  $mail->Subject =’Testy testy test – YAY!’;

  $mail->AddAddress(‘recipient@domain.com’);


  $mail->IsHTML(true);

  $mail->AddEmbeddedImage(‘bean.gif’,'beanimage’,'bean.gif’);

  $mail->Body    =’<HTML><BODY><IMG SRC=”cid:beanimage”></BODY></HTML>’;


  $mail->Mailer  =’mail’;

  $mail->Send();

?>
Which seemed to do the job nicely. The end result is an email that contains an image but [a] doesn’t download it from a remote server and [b] doesn’t have an attachment. All this just to send out some spam promotional material!

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2 Responses to “PHPMailer and Inline Images”

  1. Severin says:
    September 30, 2004 at 16:51

    This is a very practical and useful example I have found. Thank you so much.

  2. Peminator says:
    March 9, 2010 at 09:20

    It seems like webmails like roundcube do not display the inline in the message sent by phpmailer, while it displays ok in normal clients like thunderbird, macosxmail etc, but i have seen messages where the inline image displays ok even in this webmail client, so I believe there is something that could be made better in phpmailer to enhance the compatibility :-)
    /if somone has been fihting the same compatibility issue and found solution, please let me know/

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