PHP ActiveX
Send HTML Email with Attachments

Demonstrates how to send an HTML email with file attachments.
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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.

$mailman = new COM("Chilkat.MailMan");

$mailman->SmtpHost = 'smtp.my-starttls-mail-server.com';

$mailman->SmtpUsername = 'MY-SMTP-USERNAME';
$mailman->SmtpPassword = 'MY-SMTP-PASSWORD';

$mailman->StartTLS = 1;
$mailman->SmtpPort = 587;

// Create a new email object
$email = new COM("Chilkat.Email");
$email->Subject = 'Test SMTP API to Send HTML Email with Attachments';
$email->From = 'Joe Programmer <joe@my-starttls-mail-server.com>';
$email->AddTo('Chilkat Support','support@chilkatsoft.com');

// Add a plain-text alternative body, which will likely never be seen.
// (It is shown if the receiving email client is incapable of displaying HTML email.)
$email->AddPlainTextAlternativeBody('This is a plain-text alternative body...');

// Our HTML will include an image, so add the related image here.
$contentIdStarfish = $email->addRelatedFile('qa_data/jpg/starfish.jpg');
if ($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);

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

// Finally, add some attachments to the email.
// Add a file attachment.
$success = $email->AddFileAttachment2('qa_data/pdf/fishing.pdf','application/pdf');
if ($success != 1) {
    print $email->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

// Add an attachment where the content is contained in a string.
$content = 'This is the content of the 2nd attached file.';
$email->AddStringAttachment('someText.txt',$content);

// Send the HTML email.
$success = $mailman->SendEmail($email);
if ($success != 1) {
    print $mailman->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

$success = $mailman->CloseSmtpConnection();
if ($success != 1) {
    print 'Connection to SMTP server not closed cleanly.' . "\n";
}

print 'HTML email with attachments sent!' . "\n";

?>