Make PHP send an email with an inline image attachment - php

Question

WITHOUT using PHPMailer, Swiftmailer, PEAR, Zend_mail, or any other libraries at all, I want to send an email with an image attachment inline.
The important part here is attaching it inline: I already am able to do everything else.
Inline meaning that it is able to be used by the HTML in the email in an image tag.
I really don't want to use PHPMailer or anything like that--I am not the only one who has tried to figure out how to do this on stackoverflow, and so far all the questions I've seen get nothing but arguments about why they should be using PEAR or Zend_mail or something. I don't want to do that, and I don't want to argue about it.

Answer 1

is this what you are looking for??
<?php
//define the receiver of the email
$to = 'youraddress#example.com';
//define the subject of the email
$subject = 'Test email with attachment';
//create a boundary string. It must be unique
//so we use the MD5 algorithm to generate a random hash
$random_hash = md5(date('r', time()));
//define the headers we want passed. Note that they are separated with \r\n
$headers = "From: webmaster#example.com\r\nReply-To: webmaster#example.com";
//add boundary string and mime type specification
$headers .= "\r\nContent-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"PHP-mixed-".$random_hash."\"";
//read the atachment file contents into a string,
//encode it with MIME base64,
//and split it into smaller chunks
$attachment = chunk_split(base64_encode(file_get_contents('attachment.zip')));
//define the body of the message.
ob_start(); //Turn on output buffering
?>
--PHP-mixed-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>"
--PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Hello World!!!
This is simple text email message.
--PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>
Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
<h2>Hello World!</h2>
<p>This is something with <b>HTML</b> formatting.</p>
--PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>--
--PHP-mixed-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>
Content-Type: application/zip; name="attachment.zip"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment
<?php echo $attachment; ?>
--PHP-mixed-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>--
<?php
//copy current buffer contents into $message variable and delete current output buffer
$message = ob_get_clean();
//send the email
$mail_sent = #mail( $to, $subject, $message, $headers );
//if the message is sent successfully print "Mail sent". Otherwise print "Mail failed"
echo $mail_sent ? "Mail sent" : "Mail failed";
?>

Answer 2

I don't know if this is what you want, but is easy to send an email with mail() function in PHP, in HTML format:
http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php
In the examples, there's one with HTML