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IvenMS
IvenMS

Reputation: 535

How to show Embedded image in an HTML email as normal images (PHP)

I am creating an email client and going through many problems. Now the latest problem which I am facing is to show embedded images on the HTML email body.

My email body code looks similar to this:

<img alt="image001" src="cid:[email protected]" id="Picture_x0020_1" />

Few related posts are found, but they are not useful. Also looking for other possible similar problems while displaying mail contents.

I am using PHP IMAP with POP3 to fetch mails. Currently using gmail as mail server. Sending mails using SMTP (PhpMailer).

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4632

Answers (2)

131
131

Reputation: 3361

In HTML, images are standalones documents with a specific URI (used by src="" attribute). In your MIME boby, this src attribute refer to a relative MIME part. So, you'll need to write all MIME parts contents in a distinct file (i.e. /tmp/[md5_MIME_PART_ID]) Then use a CGI script to rewrite the email body and forward specific mime request :

readmail.php

<?
if($_GET['mime']) {
  readfile("/tmp/{$_GET['mime']}");
  die;
}    
$contents = preg_replace("/sid:/", "readmail.php?mime=$1", $contents);
echo $contents;

Of course, a proper database system will be more efficient here, but that's a start

Upvotes: 1

Derk Arts
Derk Arts

Reputation: 3460

Did you use:

$mail->AddEmbeddedImage(filename, cid, name);
//By using this function with this example's value above, results in this code:
$mail->AddEmbeddedImage('my-photo.jpg', 'my-photo', 'my-photo.jpg ');

If yes, what is going wrong? Why are you not happy.

Please note that by default, most email clients do not show embedded images, this is goes for Gmail and Outlook. You can not circumvent that. Its a security / bandwith saving feature. The user would first have to press 'Show images' before they appear.

Upvotes: 0

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