php mail() : attachments sent but not body text - php

Question

I have seen similar questions, but nothing directly on topic...
I have a multi part mail script with attachments. The attachments get sent fine, but the main body text, which is populated from a form, isn't sent. I tried sending with the attachment function commented out and the form elements went through. My code is:
if (empty($_POST['RadioGroup1'])){
echo "PLease select a version of message";
} else {$selected_msg = $_POST['RadioGroup1'];}
if (isset($_FILES) && (bool) $_FILES){
$files = array();
// Check for attachments
$questions = $_POST['questions'];
//loop through all the files
foreach($_FILES as $name=>$file){
// define the variables
$file_name = $file['name'];
$temp_name = $file['tmp_name'];
//check if file type allowed
$path_parts = pathinfo($file_name);
//move this file to server
$server_file = "reports/$path_parts[basename]";
move_uploaded_file($temp_name, $server_file);
//add file to array of file
array_push($files,$server_file);
}
// define mail var
$to = $email;
$from = "[server]";
$subject = "Closed Case: $case_id $casename";
$headers = "From: $from";
//define boundary
$semi_rand = md5(time());
$mime_boundary = "==Multipart_Boundary_x{$semi_rand}x";
// Header know about boundary
$headers .= "\nMIME-Version: 1.0\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;\n";
$headers .= " boundary=\"{$mime_boundary}\"";
// Define plain text mail
$message .= "--{$mime_boundary}\n";
$message .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n";
$message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\r\n" . $message . "\r\n";
$message .= "--{$mime_boundary}\n";
// preparing attachments
foreach($files as $file){
$aFile = fopen($file, "rb");
$data = fread($aFile,filesize($file));
fclose($aFile);
$data = chunk_split(base64_encode($data));
$message .= "Content-Type: {\"application/octet-stream\"}\n";
$message .= " name=\"$file\"\n";
$message .= "Content-Disposition: attachment;\n";
$message .= " filename=\"$file\"\n";
$message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n\n" . $data . "\n\n";
$message .= "--{$mime_boundary}\n";
} // END foreach attachment
$message .= $questions;
$message .= $selected_msg;
$ok = #mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
if ($ok) {
echo "<p class=\"success\">mail sent to $to!</p>";
The script runs without errors and does sent the file attachments OR the body text. Any insight would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Instead of calling the form variables from within --- $message .= $questions;. $message .= $selected_msg; Hard code the variables into the $message.=
Like-- $message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\r\n" . $questions . "\r\n" . $selected_msg . "\r\n";

Answer 2

If you like add both text and attachment in email, then used bellow code
$bodyMeaasge = 'Your Body Meaasge';
$filename = yourfile.pdf;
$path = '../';
$mpdf->Output($path.$filename,'F');
$file = $path . "/" . $filename;
$to = "senderemail#gmail.com";
$subject = "My Subject";
$random_hash = md5(date('r', time()));
$headers = "From:your#domain.com\r\n" .
"X-Mailer: PHP" . phpversion() . "\r\n" .
"MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary = $random_hash\r\n\r\n";
if(file_exists($file))
{
$content = file_get_contents($file);
$content = chunk_split(base64_encode($content));
//plain text
$body = "--$random_hash\r\n";
$body .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n";
$body .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n\r\n";
$body .= chunk_split(base64_encode($bodyMeaasge));
//attachment
$body .= "--$random_hash\r\n";
$body .="Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name=".$filename."\r\n";
$body .="Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=".$filename."\r\n";
$body .="Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n";
$body .="X-Attachment-Id: ".rand(1000,99999)."\r\n\r\n";
$body .= $content;
}else{
//plain text
$body = "--$random_hash\r\n";
$body .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8\r\n"; // use different content types here
$body .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n\r\n";
$body .= chunk_split(base64_encode($bodyMeaasge));
}
if (mail($to,$subject,$body,$headers)) {
header("Location:".$url.'&success=successfully mail send.');
} else {
header("Location:".$url.'&error=There was a problem sending the email.');
}