getting attachment from the mail using mime type

Question posted by: realin (Familiar Sight) on May 12th, 2008 07:35 AM

hiya all,

I searched for a script and now i m able to receive the email from the server. Now the issue left is how to i download the attachments(if any) with that email. google led to me a wonderful link and i was able to download class called MimeDecode, which lets me parse headers into different array according to the content type.

Well i get the attachment in the form of array, but the problem is now, how do i store/display it in browser. I know i have set the content-type in headers, but still it is not working can any one help me.

http://pastebin.com/m61e9e752

i have pasted the output of the array on above link..

Cheers !!
Realin !

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Atli

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2,028 Posts

May 12th, 2008
10:40 AM
#2

Re: getting attachment from the mail using mime type

Hi.

If you have the mime/type and the data, you could try storing the data in a temp file and call it from another PHP script that uses the correct headers.

realin

Familiar Sight

242 Posts

May 12th, 2008
01:13 PM
#3

Re: getting attachment from the mail using mime type

Quote:

Originally Posted by Atli

Hi.

If you have the mime/type and the data, you could try storing the data in a temp file and call it from another PHP script that uses the correct headers.

this is what i am planning how do i do it,
i m planning to make some cases for different headers like text/plain,image/jpg etc
then how do i store these ??
i mean storing an image can be done using imagefromjpg() function, but is that the right way to do it ??

Thanks for the reply :)
Realin !

Atli

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2,028 Posts

May 13th, 2008
07:12 AM
#4

Re: getting attachment from the mail using mime type

You could simply use the file_put_contents function to store it in a temporary file and pass the name of that file to your second PHP file.

Something like:

Code: ( text )

// Get the file data and mime type
$fileData = "This would be the data from your email array";
$fileMime = "image/jpeg"; // Or whatever
// Set file path and create the file name
$filePath = "/path/to/your/tmp/dir/";
$fileName = "temp_file_". microtime(true) .".tmp";
// Save file and print link, or error if it fails
if(file_put_contents($filePath . $fileName, $fileData)) {
echo "Click <a href='readFile.php?fName={$fileName}&mime={$fileMime}'>here</a> to download</a>";
else {
echo "Failed to save the file! Make sure you have write permission.";
}

And then in the readFile.php:

Code: ( text )

<?php
// Get the values
$filePath = "/path/to/your/tmp/dir/";
$fileName = $_GET['fName'];
$mime = $_GET['mime'];
// Make sure the file exists
if(!file_exists($filePath . $fileName)) {
die("Invalid file name provided");
}
// Set headers
header("Content-Type: ". $mime);
header("Content-Length: ".filesize($filename));
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"".basename($fileName)."\";" );
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
// Print file data
readfile($filePath . $fileName);
// Delete file, if you want that
unlink($filePath . $fileName);
exit();
?>

Thats at least the general idea.
Good luck :)

realin

Familiar Sight

242 Posts

May 13th, 2008
08:22 AM
#5

Re: getting attachment from the mail using mime type

hiya atil,

gonna try this now..
Well wat should i say.. ummm..
THANKSSSSSSSS :p
Heheheh..

Will surely paste my working code, if it will work

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