How to email a image in attachment

[wilson galaxy]

I create an image on the fly, and want to email it to the receiver.
But I can't. Since the php mail function needs string as message to
send the the message, but I only get my gd resource object, how can I
get the string presentation of the GD resourse.
BTW:I don't want to save it as a file first, then read from file.

[Alvaro G Vicario]

Re: How to email a image in attachment

*** wilson galaxy wrote/escribió (25 Oct 2004 08:46:02 -0700):[color=blue]
> I create an image on the fly, and want to email it to the receiver.
> But I can't. Since the php mail function needs string as message to
> send the the message, but I only get my gd resource object, how can I
> get the string presentation of the GD resourse.
> BTW:I don't want to save it as a file first, then read from file.[/color]

The mail() function is pretty simple. Unless you are willing to write all
code from scratch, you'd better find a class with support from MIME
attachments. Check here:

http://pear.php.net/packages.php?catpid=14&catname=Mail

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[Manuel Lemos]

Re: How to email a image in attachment

Hello,

On 10/25/2004 12:46 PM, wilson galaxy wrote:[color=blue]
> I create an image on the fly, and want to email it to the receiver.
> But I can't. Since the php mail function needs string as message to
> send the the message, but I only get my gd resource object, how can I
> get the string presentation of the GD resourse.
> BTW:I don't want to save it as a file first, then read from file.[/color]

You may want to try this class that lets you compose and send messages
with attached images or even embedded in HTML message body if you would
like that:

http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage

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[yiyongpan@yahoo.com]

Re: How to email a image in attachment

Thanks guy!!
My issue is I don't have a real file of this image, all I have is a gd
resource object, It seems all mail functions require either the file
name, or the string presentation of the image file. And I can not find
a way to get the string presentation of my gd resource. I am in php 4
not php 5 .

Thanks

[Manuel Lemos]

Re: How to email a image in attachment

Hello,

On 10/25/2004 04:38 PM, yiyongpan@yahoo .com wrote:[color=blue]
> Thanks guy!!
> My issue is I don't have a real file of this image, all I have is a gd
> resource object, It seems all mail functions require either the file
> name, or the string presentation of the image file. And I can not find
> a way to get the string presentation of my gd resource. I am in php 4
> not php 5 .[/color]

No, the MIME message can also take data in strings to add as
attachments. The example demonstrates that.

As for capturing the GD output as a string, try using output buffering:

ob_start()
ImageGIF($im);
$image_data=ob_ get_contents();

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