RE: attach xml file to e-mail

["Oliver John Tibi" <ojtibi@xxxxxxx>]

hi!

the encoding-type header do not matter unless you really endcode the xml 
attachment. try to encode the xml file by using PHP's base64_encode() 
function.

HTH. Peace!



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> From: <emrahsen51@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: php-windows@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  attach xml file to e-mail
> Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 07:20:03 -0700 (PDT)
>
> Hi,
> i want to make a program that reads data from database
> and create a xml file. Then mail this file to someone
> else...
> there is no problem in creating file or mailing.
> but when i open the attachment in e-mail, some
> characters in xml tags disappear.
> so recipient can't parse xml file in attachment.
> for example in orijinal xml file
>
> <member>
>   <name>emrah</name>
>   <surname>sener</surname>
> </member>
>
> in the attachment
>
> <member>
>   <name>emrah</name>
>   <surname>sener</surame>(!!!)
> </member>
>
> is this problem about transfer encoding?
> i try 7bit, 8bit, base64 ... but nothing happens...
>
> $mime_boundary = "<<<--==+X[".md5(time())."]";
>
> $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
> $headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;\r\n";
> $headers .= " boundary=\"".$mime_boundary."\"";
>
> $message .= "This is a multi-part message in MIME
> format.\r\n";
> $message .= "\r\n";
> $message .= "--".$mime_boundary."\r\n";
>
> $message .= "Content-Type: text/plain;
> charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\r\n";
> $message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\r\n";
> $message .= "\r\n";
> $message .= "Transfer List: \r\n";
> $message .= "--".$mime_boundary."\r\n";
>
> $message .= "Content-Type: text/xml;
> charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\r\n";
> $message .= " name=".basename("transfer.xml")."\r\n";
> $message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\r\n";
> $message .= "Content-Disposition: attachment;\r\n";
> $message .= " filename=\"transfer.xml\"\r\n";
> $message .= "\r\n";
>
> $fp = fopen("transfer.xml","rb");
>
> $message .=  fread($fp, filesize("transfer.xml"));
>
> $message .= "\r\n";
> $message .= "--".$mime_boundary."\r\n";
>
> $go = mail("emrahsen51@xxxxxxxxx","XML Transfer",
> $message, $headers);
>
>
> thanks...
>
>
>
>
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