Sending Email with attachment remotely hosted

[cancer10]

Hello,

I am trying to send an email using PHP with an attachment thats remotely hosted. I am trying the following script but it does not work with remote attachment but works with attachment with relative path i.e. file existing in the same directory. Can someone please tell me whats wrong in this script?

<?php
$fileatt = "http://www.freewebs.com/greenalternatives/chickureport_dahanu.PDF"; // Path to the file 
$fileatt_type = "application/pdf"; // File Type 
$fileatt_name = "chickureport_dahanu.PDF"; // Filename that will be used for the file as the attachment

$email_from = "me@mydomain.net"; // Who the email is from 
$email_subject = "Your attached file"; // The Subject of the email 
$email_message = "Thanks for visiting mysite.com! Here is your free file.
";
$email_message .= "Thanks for visiting.
"; // Message that the email has in it

$email_to = 'you@yourdomain.com'; // Who the email is to

$headers = "From: ".$email_from;

$file = fopen($fileatt,'rb'); 
$data = fread($file,filesize($fileatt)); 
fclose($file);

$semi_rand = md5(time()); 
$mime_boundary = "==Multipart_Boundary_x{$semi_rand}x"; 

$headers .= "\nMIME-Version: 1.0\n" . 
"Content-Type: multipart/mixed;\n" . 
" boundary=\"{$mime_boundary}\"";

$email_message .= "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n\n" . 
"--{$mime_boundary}\n" . 
"Content-Type:text/html; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n" . 
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n" . 
$email_message .= "\n\n";

$data = chunk_split(base64_encode($data));

$email_message .= "--{$mime_boundary}\n" . 
"Content-Type: {$fileatt_type};\n" . 
" name=\"{$fileatt_name}\"\n" . 
//"Content-Disposition: attachment;\n" . 
//" filename=\"{$fileatt_name}\"\n" . 
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n\n" . 
$data .= "\n\n" . 
"--{$mime_boundary}--\n";

$ok = @mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);

if($ok) { 
echo "You file has been sent
to the email address you specified.

Make sure to check your junk mail!

Click here to return to mysite.com.";

} else { 
die("Sorry but the email could not be sent. Please go back and try again!"); 
}

[Custard7A]

If it works with a relative path but not an absolute path then my first thought is your script is fine, but the server(s) aren't allowing absolute paths.

Run the special function phpinfo() (a blank page helps) and check the status of allow_url_fopen.

[cancer10]

What if the allow_url_fopen is false? Is there any alternate option to achieve this?

[tangoforce]

Not really no other than cURL which I don't think relies on that setting because it's an independant library.

Also try using file_get_contents() instead of fopen - it makes it a lot easier.

As for the email code, use PHPMailer instead. You won't need to worry about all the complex stuff you're doing.

[cancer10]

Thanks guys for your input. Appreciate it.