What is the correct way to generate an email attachment with PhpWord?
I tried multiple ways but I get a corrupt file with size 1kb. If I trigger a download of the file instead, the file is OK.
$fileName = 'file.docx';
$fileAttachment = tempnam(sys_get_temp_dir(), 'PHPWord');
$template->saveAs($fileAttachment);
$contentType = "application/octet-stream";
$notification
->setTemplate("template", $templateParams)
->setSubject($this->_("Email subject"))
->addRecipient("to", $email, $email)
->addAttachment($fileName, $fileAttachment, $contentType);
What am I doing wrong?
Thank you!
You could try to use file_get_contents function to read the contents of the file and then pass it as the second parameter to the addAttachment() method:
$fileAttachmentContent = file_get_contents($fileAttachment);
$notification
->setTemplate("template", $templateParams)
->setSubject($this->_("Email subject"))
->addRecipient("to", $email, $email)
->addAttachment($fileName, $fileAttachmentContent, $contentType);
PHPWord is for generating Word documents, but it does not send mails.
You can combine it with any PHP mailer library. This is a sample on how to do it using SwitfMailer:
<?php
require_once '[...]/phpword/src/PhpWord/Autoloader.php';
require_once '[...]/swiftmailer/lib/swift_required.php';
// create a new document with phpWord
$phpWord = new \PhpOffice\PhpWord\PhpWord();
$section = $phpWord->addSection();
$text = $section->addText("Here your text...");
// Use Swift Mailer to create an attachment object...
$attachment = new Swift_Attachment(
$phpWord->save(),
'file.docx',
'application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document'
);
// ...and send the email
$transport = Swift_SmtpTransport::newInstance('smtp.yoursmtp.com', 25);
$mailer = Swift_Mailer::newInstance($transport);
$message = Swift_Message::newInstance('Here your subject')
->setFrom(['sender#sdomain.net' => 'Sender Name'])
->setTo(['receiver#rdomain.org' => 'Receiver Name'])
->setBody('Here the body message...')
->attach($attachment);
$result = $mailer->send($message);
You can use any other mail library you like. Or even use the PHP mail() function, but is more tricky to set the mail headers properly.
Problem with sending Cyrillic Email with PHP.
My side:
Server IIS - Database MsSQL - email server: Exchange 2010 /communication via PHP EWS/
Reciever is UA Goverment owned company with their specific software for receiving emails. It is working with MS Outlook /manually send/.
I tried send it as text /not html/ or i tried PHP Mailer, i also already tried with C# /all are not working with this specific company /on gmail or hotmail it's working fine//.
$ews = new ExchangeWebServices($server, $username, $password);
$msg = new EWSType_MessageType();
$toAddresses = array();
$toAddresses[0] = new EWSType_EmailAddressType();
$toAddresses[0]->EmailAddress =;
$toAddresses[0]->Name =;
$msg->ToRecipients = $toAddresses;
$fromAddress = new EWSType_EmailAddressType();
$fromAddress->EmailAddress =;
$fromAddress->Name =;
$msg->From = new EWSType_SingleRecipientType();
$msg->From->Mailbox = $fromAddress;
$msg->Subject = "Test";
$msg->Body = new EWSType_BodyType();
$msg->Body->BodyType = 'HTML'; //Text HTML
$msg->Body->_ = $UAText;
$msgRequest = new EWSType_CreateItemType();
$msgRequest->Items = new EWSType_NonEmptyArrayOfAllItemsType();
$msgRequest->Items->Message = $msg;
$msgRequest->MessageDisposition = 'SendAndSaveCopy';
$msgRequest->MessageDispositionSpecified = true;
$response = $ews->CreateItem($msgRequest);
var_dump($response);
Thank You,
If its working with an normal Outlook client, however not with your solution my first check would be to compare the header from two example emails (one from outlook and one from your solution). I think that the content-type is set correctly with Outlook however not with your solution.
So you might wish to set the content encoding to UTF-8 in your solution. So I assume the content inside $UAText is some HTML stuff. You might therefore wish to flag that part as UTF-8 via:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
and see how it works.
Additional you might wish to set the encoding directly inside your code via:
$ews = new ExchangeWebServices($host, $user, $password, ExchangeWebServices::VERSION_2007_SP1);
$msg = new EWSType_MessageType();
$msg->MimeContent = new EWSType_MimeContentType();
$msg->MimeContent->_ = base64_encode("Mime-Version: 1.0\r\n"
. "From: michael#contoso.com\r\n"
. "To: amy#contoso.com\r\n"
. "Subject: nothing\r\n"
. "Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 22:06:21 -0000\r\n"
. "Message-ID: <{0}>\r\n"
. "X-Experimental: some value\r\n"
. "\r\n"
. "I have nothing further to say.\r\n");
$msg->MimeContent->CharacterSet = 'UTF-8';
Note: Here is a good starting point regarding the content-type encoding option. You also might wish to check the official Microsoft howto here.
Not sure what's the syntax of having html files rendered when added to Zend\Mail\Message?
Here's a piece of code I have:
$mail = new Mail\Message();
$html = file_get_contents('content.html');
$mail->setBody($html);
Is it sufficient to set it up like this or do I need to specify the type of content somehow?
Thanks.
You can attach it as a Mime part.
Example from the docs:
use Zend\Mail\Message;
use Zend\Mime\Message as MimeMessage;
use Zend\Mime\Part as MimePart;
$html = new MimePart($htmlMarkup);
$html->type = "text/html";
$body = new MimeMessage();
$body->setParts(array($text, $html, $image));
$message = new Message();
$message->setBody($body);
I've found and tried various solutions given in other questions about utf-encoding for special characters and other related problems, but without any success.
I have an html contact form that sends information to my mail address with a simple php script using PEAR Mail mime. I can send information containing special characters from my test site on localhost with no problems, but not after I uploaded to my server.
eg message:
Test special characters: é è ç à ô
after being sent from server becomes:
Test special characters: é è ç à ô
I am guessing it's an encoding problem from my web server, but am kinda stuck at how to resolve the problem.
The meta tags in file containing the form are set to:
<meta charset="utf-8">
and the form is specified to accept charset utf-8:
<form name="contact" method="post" action="assets/send_form.php" accept-charset="UTF-8">
I've also tried sending content from php file with:
header("Content-Type: text/html; charset= UTF-8");
as well as creating $headers for the message with 'Content-Type' = 'text/html; charset="UTF-8".
The relevant php code in my script:
//This section creates the email headers
$headerss=array();
$headerss['From']= $from_address;
$headerss['To']= $siteEmail;
$headerss['Subject']= $email_subject;
$headerss['Return-Path']= $contactEmail;
$headerss['Date']= date("r");
$headerss['Content-Type'] = 'text/html; charset="UTF-8"';
// This section creates the smtp inputs
$auth = array('host' => $host, 'port' => $port, 'auth' => true, 'username' => $username, 'password' => $password);
// create new Mail_mime instance, set utf-8 charset
$mail = new Mail_mime();
$mail -> setHTMLBody($email_message);
//CHECK THIS OUT FOR UTF-8 *****************************
$mimeparams=array();
$mimeparams['text_encoding']="7bit";
$mimeparams['text_charset']="UTF-8";
$mimeparams['html_charset']="UTF-8";
$mimeparams['head_charset']="UTF-8";
$mimeparams['eol']= "\n" ;
$body = $mail->get($mimeparams);
$headers = $mail->headers($headerss);
// This section send the email
$smtp = Mail::factory('smtp', $auth);
$sendmail = $smtp->send($siteEmail, $headers, $body);
Any help will be really appreciated. Thanks.
Try to put before
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
I experienced the same problem and my solution was to save the php file in same format, in UTF-8 as I had saved in ANSI format. That solved my problem anyway.
I am developing a PHP application that needs to retrieve arbitrary emails from an email server. Then, the message is completely parsed and stored in a database.
Of course, I have to do a lot of tests as this task is not really trivial with all that different mail formats under the sun. Therefore I started to "collect" emails from certain clients and with different contents.
I would like to have a script so that I can send out those emails automatically to my application to test the mail handling.
Therefore, I need a way to send the raw emails - so that the structure is exactly the same as they would come from the respective client. I have the emails stored as .eml files.
Does somebody know how to send emails by supplying the raw body?
Edit:
To be more specific: I am searching for a way to send out multipart emails by using their source code. For example I would like to be able to use something like that (an email with plain and HTML part, HTML part has one inline attachment).
--Apple-Mail-159-396126150
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Type: text/plain;
The plain text email!
--=20
=20
=20
--Apple-Mail-159-396126150
Content-Type: multipart/related;
type="text/html";
boundary=Apple-Mail-160-396126150
--Apple-Mail-160-396126150
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Type: text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1
<html><head>
<title>Daisies</title>=20
</head><body style=3D"background-attachment: initial; background-origin: =
initial; background-image: =
url(cid:4BFF075A-09D1-4118-9AE5-2DA8295BDF33/bg_pattern.jpg); =
background-position: 50% 0px; ">
[ - snip - the html email content ]
</body></html>=
--Apple-Mail-160-396126150
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: inline;
filename=bg_pattern.jpg
Content-Type: image/jpg;
x-apple-mail-type=stationery;
name="bg_pattern.jpg"
Content-Id: <4BFF075A-09D1-4118-9AE5-2DA8295BDF33/tbg.jpg>
/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAgAAZABkAAD/7AARRHVja3kAAQAEAAAASAAA/+IFOElDQ19QUk9GSUxFAAEB
[ - snip - the image content ]
nU4IGsoTr47IczxmCMvPypi6XZOWKYz/AB42mcaD/9k=
--Apple-Mail-159-396126150--
Using PHPMailer, you can set the body of a message directly:
$mail->Body = 'the contents of one of your .eml files here'
If your mails contain any mime attachments, this will most likely not work properly, as some of the MIME stuff has to go into the mail's headers. You'd have to massage the .eml to extract those particular headers and add them to the PHPMailer mail as a customheader
You could just use the telnet program to send those emails:
$ telnet <host> <port> // execute telnet
HELO my.domain.com // enter HELO command
MAIL FROM: sender#address.com // enter MAIL FROM command
RCPT TO: recipient#address.com // enter RCPT TO command
<past here, without adding a newline> // enter the raw content of the message
[ctrl]+d // hit [ctrl] and d simultaneously to end the message
If you really want to do this in PHP, you can use fsockopen() or stream_socket_client() family. Basically you do the same thing: talking to the mailserver directly.
// open connection
$stream = #stream_socket_client($host . ':' . $port);
// write HELO command
fwrite($stream, "HELO my.domain.com\r\n");
// read response
$data = '';
while (!feof($stream)) {
$data += fgets($stream, 1024);
}
// repeat for other steps
// ...
// close connection
fclose($stream);
You can just use the build in PHP function mail for it. The body part doesnt have to be just text, it can also contain mixed part data.
Keep in mind that this is a proof of concept. The sendEmlFile function could use some more checking, like "Does the file exists" and "Does it have a boundry set". As you mentioned it is for testing/development, I have not included it.
<?php
function sendmail($body,$subject,$to, $boundry='') {
define ("CRLF", "\r\n");
//basic settings
$from = "Example mail<info#example.com>";
//define headers
$sHeaders = "From: ".$from.CRLF;
$sHeaders .= "X-Mailer: PHP/".phpversion().CRLF;
$sHeaders .= "MIME-Version: 1.0".CRLF;
//if you supply a boundry, it will be send with your own data
//else it will be send as regular html email
if (strlen($boundry)>0)
$sHeaders .= "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"".$boundry."\"".CRLF;
else
{
$sHeaders .= "Content-type: text/html;".CRLF."\tcharset=\"iso-8859-1\"".CRLF;
$sHeaders .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit".CRLF."Content-Disposition: inline";
}
mail($to,$subject,$body,$sHeaders);
}
function sendEmlFile($subject, $to, $filename) {
$body = file_get_contents($filename);
//get first line "--Apple-Mail-159-396126150"
$boundry = $str = strtok($body, "\n");
sendmail($body,$subject,$to, $boundry);
}
?>
Update:
After some more testing I found that all .eml files are different. There might be a standard, but I had tons of options when exporting to .eml. I had to use a seperate tool to create the file, because you cannot save to .eml by default using outlook.
You can download an example of the mail script. It contains two versions.
The simple version has two files, one is the index.php file that sends the test.eml file. This is just a file where i pasted in the example code you posted in your question.
The advanced version sends an email using an actual .eml file I created. it will get the required headers from the file it self. Keep in mind that this also sets the To and From part of the mail, so change it to match your own/server settings.
The advanced code works like this:
<?php
function sendEmlFile($filename) {
//define a clear line
define ("CRLF", "\r\n");
//eml content to array.
$file = file($filename);
//var to store the headers
$headers = "";
$to = "";
$subject = "";
//loop trough each line
//the first part are the headers, until you reach a white line
while(true) {
//get the first line and remove it from the file
$line = array_shift($file);
if (strlen(trim($line))==0) {
//headers are complete
break;
}
//is it the To header
if (substr(strtolower($line), 0,3)=="to:") {
$to = trim(substr($line, 3));
continue;
}
//Is it the subject header
if (substr(strtolower($line), 0,8)=="subject:") {
$subject = trim(substr($line, 8));
continue;
}
$headers .= $line . CRLF;
}
//implode the remaining content into the body and trim it, incase the headers where seperated with multiple white lines
$body = trim(implode('', $file));
//echo content for debugging
/*
echo $headers;
echo '<hr>';
echo $to;
echo '<hr>';
echo $subject;
echo '<hr>';
echo $body;
*/
//send the email
mail($to,$subject,$body,$headers);
}
//initiate a test with the test file
sendEmlFile("Test.eml");
?>
You could start here
http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/36108-send-emails-using-php-smtp-direct/
I have no idea how good that code is, but it would make a starting point.
What you are doing is connecting direct to port 25 on the remote machine, as you would with telnet, and issuing smtp commands. See eg http://www.yuki-onna.co.uk/email/smtp.html for what's going on (or see Jasper N. Brouwer's answer).
Just make a quick shell script which processes a directory and call it when you want e.g. using at crontab etc
for I in ls /mydir/ do cat I | awk .. | sendmail -options
http://www.manpagez.com/man/1/awk/
You could also just talk to the mail server using the script to send the emls with a templated body..
Edit: I have added the code to Github, for ease of use by other people. https://github.com/xrobau/smtphack
I realise I am somewhat necro-answering this question, but it wasn't answered and I needed to do this myself. Here's the code!
<?php
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\SMTP;
class SMTPHack
{
private $phpmailer;
private $smtp;
private $from;
private $to;
/**
* #param string $from
* #param string $to
* #param string $smtphost
* #return void
*/
public function __construct(string $from, string $to, string $smtphost = 'mailrx')
{
$mail = new PHPMailer(true);
$mail->isSMTP();
$mail->SMTPDebug = SMTP::DEBUG_SERVER;
$mail->SMTPAutoTLS = false;
$mail->Host = $smtphost;
$this->phpmailer = $mail;
$this->from = $from;
$this->to = $to;
}
/**
* #param string $helo
* #return SMTP
*/
public function getSmtp(string $helo = ''): SMTP
{
if (!$this->smtp) {
if ($helo) {
$this->phpmailer->Helo = $helo;
}
$this->phpmailer->smtpConnect();
$this->smtp = $this->phpmailer->getSMTPInstance();
$this->smtp->mail($this->from);
$this->smtp->recipient($this->to);
}
return $this->smtp;
}
/**
* #param string $data
* #param string $helo
* #param boolean $quiet
* #return void
* #throws \PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception
*/
public function data(string $data, string $helo = '', bool $quiet = true)
{
$smtp = $this->getSmtp($helo);
$prev = $smtp->do_debug;
if ($quiet) {
$smtp->do_debug = 0;
}
$smtp->data($data);
$smtp->do_debug = $prev;
}
}
Using that, you can simply beat PHPMailer into submission with a few simple commands:
$from = 'xrobau#example.com';
$to = 'fred#example.com';
$hack = new SMTPHack($from, $to);
$smtp = $hack->getSmtp('helo.hostname');
$errors = $smtp->getError();
// Assuming this is running in a phpunit test...
$this->assertEmpty($errors['error']);
$testemail = file_get_contents(__DIR__ . '/TestEmail.eml');
$hack->data($testemail);