[nitro4file]

Hi All,

am trying to email an image created on fly, i can email any image file etc but dunno how to do it for an image i php create.

my current code for email with attach.

PHP Code:

<?

$file = "address.gif";

$fp = fopen($file, "r");

$file2 = fread($fp, filesize($file));



$file2 = chunk_split(base64_encode($file2));



$subject ="Image Email";

$sender = "***@****.***";





$formsend = mail("***@*****.***", "$subject", "$file2", "From: $sender\r\nMIME-Version: 1.0\r\nContent-type: image/gif; name=address\r\nReply-to:$sender\r\nContent-Transfer-Encoding: base64"); 





?>

Okay the above code work and send my email with attached (address.gif),
Now i have a php suppose dynamicAddress.php, which work as follows:

dynamicAddress.php?town=20&city=10&address=somewhe re+road+etc

dynamicAddress.php fetch data from mysql and output a custom image on the screen,

Now how do i give user the possibility to email them this image which has just been created??

Thanks in advance for your reponse

Cheers
Nitro

[Alli]

you can store the image in server and send a html mail containing the address, or send it as an attachment. i read a great article explaining both methods wih this title "advanced mail in php" (maybe)

[nitro4file]

That's what am trying to do, but aint finding a suitable solution,

Anyone can direct me to some solution to his issue?? Thanks

Cheers
Nitro

[nitro4file]

OK, let me simplify my question, at which stage of an image creation can i obtain binary code of same??? should i by all means save it by supplying the 3rd argument like

Imagegif($im,'img.gif',100);

then use fopen() and fread() to obtain binary data, then use chunk_split(base64_encode() to include it in my email.

Is there another means of getting the binary data without saving my image first?? if yes how to do so!

Thanks for your help

Cheers
Nitro

[mab]

The following should work -

PHP Code:

ob_start(); // turn on or start a new output buffer

Imagegif($im); // output the image to the buffer

$image_data = ob_get_contents(); // get the buffer into a variable

ob_end_clean(); // discard the buffer 

You can then process the $image_data variable the same as if you had read if from a file.

[nitro4file]

Mab,

I have just one word! Perfect!!

Thanks alot for your help

Cheers
Nitro