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Outlook Send Email with Attachments

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This example sends a plain-text email with attachments. Other examples exist for:
  • Sending plain-text email.
  • Sending HTML email.
  • Sending HTML email with embedded images.
  • Sending HTML email with embedded images and attachments.

This example applies to: Exchange Online | Office 365 | Hotmail.com | Live.com | MSN.com | Outlook.com | Passport.com

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<?php

include("chilkat.php");

$success = false;

// Important: This example requires Chilkat v9.5.0.68 or greater.

// This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
// See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

$http = new CkHttp();

// Use your previously obtained access token here:
// See the following examples for getting an access token:
//    Get Microsoft Graph OAuth2 Access Token (Azure AD v2.0 Endpoint).
//    Get Microsoft Graph OAuth2 Access Token (Azure AD Endpoint).
//    Refresh Access Token (Azure AD v2.0 Endpoint).
//    Refresh Access Token (Azure AD Endpoint).

$http->put_AuthToken('MICROSOFT_GRAPH_ACCESS_TOKEN');

// To send mail, we'll POST to the following endpoint:
// 
// POST /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/sendMail
// 
// (The special keyword "me" may be used in place of a principal name.)
// 

// Load the files to be attached.
$attach1 = new CkBinData();
$attach1->LoadFile('qa_data/pdf/fishing.pdf');
$attach2 = new CkBinData();
$attach2->LoadFile('qa_data/msword/sample.docx');

// The body of the POST request contains JSON that specifies the email subject, body,
// recipients, etc.  This example will build the following JSON plain-text email:
// 

// 	{
// 	  "message": {
// 	    "subject": "Sample Email with Attachments",
// 	    "body": {
// 	      "contentType": "Text",
// 	      "content": "This is the plain-text body..."
// 	    },
// 	    "toRecipients": [
// 	      {
// 	        "emailAddress": {
// 		  "name": "Chilkat Software",
// 	          "address": "admin@chilkat.io"
// 	        }
// 	      },
// 	      {
// 	        "emailAddress": {
// 	          "address": "chilkat.support@gmail.com"
// 	        }
// 	      }
// 	    ],
// 	    "ccRecipients": [
// 	      {
// 	        "emailAddress": {
// 		  "name": "Chilkat Blog",
// 		  "address": "admin@cknotes.com"
// 	        }
// 	      }
// 	    ],
// 	    "attachments": [
// 	       {
// 	         "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.fileAttachment",
// 	         "name": "fishing.pdf",
// 	         "contentType": "application/pdf",
// 	         "size": <theActualSize>,
// 	         "isInline": false,
// 	         "contentBytes": "base64_data_here"
// 	       },
// 	       {
// 	         "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.fileAttachment",
// 	         "name": "sample.docx",
// 	         "contentType": "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document",
// 	         "size": <theActualSize>,
// 	         "isInline": false,
// 	         "contentBytes": "base64_data_here"
// 	       }
// 	    ]
// 	  },
// 	  "saveToSentItems": true
// 	}
// 
// Build the above JSON.
$json = new CkJsonObject();
$json->UpdateString('message.subject','Sample Email with Attachments');
$json->UpdateString('message.body.contentType','Text');
$json->UpdateString('message.body.content','This is the plain-text body...');

$json->UpdateString('message.toRecipients[0].emailAddress.name','Chilkat Software');
$json->UpdateString('message.toRecipients[0].emailAddress.address','admin@chilkat.io');
$json->UpdateString('message.toRecipients[1].emailAddress.address','chilkat.support@gmail.com');
$json->UpdateString('message.ccRecipients[0].emailAddress.name','Chilkat Blog');
$json->UpdateString('message.ccRecipients[0].emailAddress.address','admin@cknotes.com');

$json->UpdateString('message.attachments[0].\'@odata.type\'','#microsoft.graph.fileAttachment');
$json->UpdateString('message.attachments[0].name','fishing.pdf');
$json->UpdateString('message.attachments[0].contentType','application/pdf');
$json->UpdateInt('message.attachments[0].size',$attach1->get_NumBytes());
$json->UpdateBool('message.attachments[0].isInline',false);
$json->UpdateBd('message.attachments[0].contentBytes','base64',$attach1);

$json->UpdateString('message.attachments[1].\'@odata.type\'','#microsoft.graph.fileAttachment');
$json->UpdateString('message.attachments[1].name','sample.docx');
$json->UpdateString('message.attachments[1].contentType','application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document');
$json->UpdateInt('message.attachments[1].size',$attach2->get_NumBytes());
$json->UpdateBool('message.attachments[1].isInline',false);
$json->UpdateBd('message.attachments[1].contentBytes','base64',$attach2);

$json->UpdateBool('saveToSentItems',true);

// -------------------------------------------------------------
// Important: This example requires Chilkat v9.5.0.68 or greater.
// -------------------------------------------------------------

// Send the HTTP POST (i.e. send the HTML email)
$resp = new CkHttpResponse();
$success = $http->HttpJson('POST','https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/sendMail',$json,'application/json',$resp);
if ($success == false) {
    print $http->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

// The send succeeded if the response status code = 202.
// In the success case, there is no response body.  (We just get the response code to know that it succeeded.)
if ($resp->get_StatusCode() != 202) {
    $json->Load($resp->bodyStr());
    $json->put_EmitCompact(false);
    print $json->emit() . "\n";
    print 'Failed, response status code = ' . $resp->get_StatusCode() . "\n";
}
else {
    print 'Outlook Mail with Attachments Sent.' . "\n";
}


?>