Comments on: Zend_Mail Obstacles

By: anty

anty — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:41:24 +0000

Thanks for the feedback Giannis, I’ll consider a white background next time I change my template!

By: Giannis

Giannis — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 07:52:53 +0000

Thank you so much! Didn’t know about the multipart/related type and that this is important for thunderbird to display properly inline images. Nice website but the black background makes it kind of hard to read

By: Johan de Vries

Johan de Vries — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:59:48 +0000

$mail->setType(Zend_Mime::MULTIPART_RELATED);

^ That was exactly what was missing from my emails. Thanks!

By: anty

anty — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:50:05 +0000

Thanks for the suggestion Ben. It’s actually the blogging software “WordPress” that strips all but a few styling tags. I would search for or write a plugin that replaces strip_tags() with htmlentities(), but that would take away the option to post formatted comments.
Thank you for your comments, Ben!

By: Ben W

Ben W — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:01:58 +0000

It seems that the HTML tags got removed from my last post.

I would suggest using htmlentities() instead of strip_tags()

By: Ben W

Ben W — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:00:09 +0000

I found this helpful but I think it's slightly simpler in Zend Framework 1.7. This seemed to work for me:

$mail = new Zend_Mail();
$msg = 'This image should be inline.';
$image = file_get_contents('image.gif');
$im = $mail->createAttachment($image, 'image/gif', Zend_Mime::DISPOSITION_INLINE, Zend_Mime::ENCODING_BASE64);
$im->id = 'someid';
$mail->setBodyHtml($msg)
       ->send();

By: Robert G.

Robert G. — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:03:20 +0000

Thank you for posting the hint about
$mail->setType(Zend_Mime::MULTIPART_RELATED);

I tried for hours to send a mail with inline images and this was the only thing I did not do.
After adding this line it worked perfectly, thanks again!

By: anty

anty — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:43:02 +0000

@Wayne: I try to extract the important things from my script for you. Here's how to determine the image type:

// getimagesize returns false, if the URL does not exist
if (file_exists($imagePath) || getimagesize($imagePath)) {
	$image = file_get_contents($imagePath);
	if (function_exists('exif_imagetype') && function_exists('image_type_to_mime_type')) {
		$imageType = image_type_to_mime_type(exif_imagetype($imagePath));
	}
}

I did this to replace all image-tags in my mail template with references to the attached images (cid):

if (!is_null($image)) {
	$cid = md5($image) .'.'. md5(microtime());
	$images[$cid] = array($image, $imageType);
	if (trim($src[1]) == '' && trim($src[2]) != '') {
		$templateMessageTemp = preg_replace('/(]*src=)(?:"' . preg_quote($src[2], '/') .'"|\\\''. preg_quote($src[2], '/') .'\\\')([^>]*>)/i', '${1}"cid:'. $cid .'"${2}', $templateMessage);
	} elseif (trim($src[1]) != '') {
		$templateMessageTemp = preg_replace('/(]*src=)(?:"' . preg_quote($src[1], '/') .'"|\\\''. preg_quote($src[1], '/') .'\\\')([^>]*>)/i', '${1}"cid:'. $cid .'"${2}', $templateMessage);
	}

	if ($templateMessageTemp == $templateMessage) {
		// nothing was replaced (duplicate images whas used), ignore this image
		unset($images[$cid]);
	}

	$templateMessage = $templateMessageTemp;
}

Here is how I attached the images with the right cid:

// attach images
foreach ($images as $cid => $image) {
	$imageData = $image[0];
	$imageType = $image[1];
	if ($imageType === false) {
		$at = $mail->createAttachment($imageData);
	} else {
		$at = $mail->createAttachment($imageData, $imageType, Zend_Mime::DISPOSITION_INLINE, Zend_Mime::ENCODING_BASE64);
	}

	$at->id = $cid;
}

I hope this helps you!

By: Wayne

Wayne — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:30:21 +0000

Thanks for your post on ‘Inline images are displayed as attachments’ … we have REALLY battled to find any help on attaching images inline with the zend_mail… do you by any chance have a full example of how you attached the images into the body, without the image showing as a jpeg?
thanks a mill!!

By: alban

alban — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 09:09:39 +0000

new Zend_Mail(‘utf-8′);
thank !!!