PHP ActiveX

Send HTML Email with Embedded Image Loaded from Memory

Demonstrates how to compose an HTML email with an embedded image where the image data is loaded directly from memory.

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<?php

$success = 0;

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

// First load image data into memory.
// This example loads image data from a file.
// However, your application could get the image data from any other source, such as
// from a database.
$fac = new COM("Chilkat.FileAccess");

$imageBytes = $fac->ReadEntireFile('qa_data/jpg/starfish.jpg');

// The mailman object is used for sending and receiving email.
$mailman = new COM("Chilkat.MailMan");

// Use your SMTP server hostname.  This example uses office365, but it could be any SMTP server..
$mailman->SmtpHost = 'outlook.office365.com';
$mailman->SmtpPort = 587;
$mailman->StartTLS = 1;

// Set the SMTP login/password
$mailman->SmtpUsername = 'OFFICE365-SMTP-LOGIN';
$mailman->SmtpPassword = 'OFFICE365-SMTP-PASSWORD';

// Create a new email object
$email = new COM("Chilkat.Email");
$email->Subject = 'HTML Email with Image Loaded from In-Memory Bytes';
$email->From = 'Chilkat Support <my-office365-user@mydomain.com>';
$email->AddTo('Chilkat Support','support@chilkatsoft.com');

$contentIdStarfish = $email->addRelatedData('starfish.jpg',$imageBytes);
if ($email->LastMethodSuccess != 1) {
    print $email->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

// The src attribute for the image tag is set to the contentIdStarfish:
$sbHtml = new COM("Chilkat.StringBuilder");
$sbHtml->Append('<html><body><p>This is an HTML email with an embedded image.</p>');
$sbHtml->Append('<p><img src=\'cid:CONTENT_ID_STARFISH\' /></p></body></html>');
$numReplacements = $sbHtml->Replace('CONTENT_ID_STARFISH',$contentIdStarfish);

$email->SetHtmlBody($sbHtml->getAsString());

$success = $mailman->SendEmail($email);
if ($success != 1) {
    print $mailman->LastErrorText . "\n";
}
else {
    print 'Mail Sent!' . "\n";
}


?>