Mail_Mime::addHTMLImage()

Mail_Mime::addHTMLImage() – add image to message

Synopsis

require_once 'Mail/mime.php';

boolean addHTMLImage ( string $file , string $c_type = 'application/octet-stream' , string $name = '' , boolean $isfile = true , string $content_id = null )

Description

If sending an HTML message with embedded images, use this function to add the image.

Parameter

  • string $file - The image file name or the image data itself

  • string $c_type - The content type of the image or file.

  • string $name - The filename of the image. Only used, if $file contains the image data.

  • boolean $isfile - Whether $file is a filename or not.

  • string $content_id - The Content-ID value to use for the embedded image. A NULL value will generate a suitably unique Content-ID. When referencing the embedded image with an <img> tag, set the "src" attribute to be "cid:whatever", where "whatever" is the Content-ID.

Return value

boolean - Returns TRUE on success, PEAR_Error on failure.

Throws

Possible PEAR_Error values
Error code Error message Reason Solution
NULL "File is not readable file_name" The file was not found or the script has not enough rights to access the file. Check the file name and path. Check user and file permissions.
NULL "Could not open file_name" The file is already opened and exclusivly locked by another application. In the most cases a programm opens the file for writing. addHTMLImage() does no file locking, so this problem is not caused by competitve callings of this function.

Note

This function can not be called statically.

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User Notes:

Note by: public@cloman.com
2011-10-21 23:35 UTC
Most of you guys have this wrong. The reason your images will only display if you use the correct relative path is because it's actually loading the image file from your website.

The correct way to reference an inline image is to have the "src" attribute specify a "cid", like so:
<img src="cid:whatever">
where "whatever" is the Content-ID field for the attached image.

You can specify the Content-ID by using a fifth, undocumented parameter to AddHTMLImage(). See the source code for more information.
Note by: epommate@gmail.com
2010-07-09 09:21 UTC
I use the code above with success :
$mimeMessage->addHTMLImage(file_get_contents($image),mime_content_type($image),basename($image),false);
Note by: paulh@attik.com
2010-07-02 01:26 UTC
If you must use a file location that you can't (or would rather not) put into your html, just read it in and specify the file name.

$mime->addHTMLImage(file_get_contents('/root/server/path/img/image.jpg'),'image/jpeg','img/image.jpg',false);

Now my html template refers to the image as <img src="img/image.jpg"/> but I can read the image from wherever I need to store it.
Note by: ryan@ohioconnect.net
2010-06-07 22:35 UTC
I recommend this function be renamed to addInlineAttachment() since it doesn't specifically apply to images. You can also use this to embed style sheets etc. So far i've only seen Thunderbird support embedded style sheets but i hope more mail clients start to.

I'd also like the ability to set the encoding type like you can with AddAttachment()
Note by: erwin@darwine.nl
2009-02-27 16:59 UTC
I had troubles using INLINE IMAGES in HTML mail.
It seems a lot of people were confused (judging by the many posts in all kind of fora)
I couldn't use inline images untill I found out that the image must use the same path in the HTML as in the functioncall addhtmlimage().

So:
WRONG:
$mail->setHTMLBody('<html><body><img src="myImg.gif"> <p>You don't see this image.</p></body></html>');
$mail->addHTMLImage('./images/myImg.gif', 'image/gif');

RIGHT:
$mail->setHTMLBody('<html><body><img src="images/myImg.gif"> <p>You don't see this image.</p></body></html>');
$mail->addHTMLImage('images/myImg.gif', 'image/gif');

This was a little confusing for me since I expected the addHTMLImage() to simply fetch the image from source, but appearantly it is also using that same path in the actual source of the email.

Great package!
Regards,
Erwin
Note by: Lawrence
2008-09-16 11:12 UTC
Re: Joseph's and jlang's notes about the filename -- I believe you just have to use the *same* full filename in both your HTML and in the call to addHTMLImage(). If you pass a relative path to addHTMLImage(), you need to use the relative path as the URL in the HTML. I.e.:

----
$mime->addHTMLImage("../../img_dir/butterfly.gif");
----
<img src="../../img_dir/butterfly.gif">
----

If you pass a full path to addHTMLImage(), you need to use the full path in your HTML:

----
$mime->addHTMLImage("/home/lawrence/img_dir/butterfly.gif");
----
<img src="/home/lawrence/img_dir/butterfly.gif">
----
Note by: lech.jonczyk@gmail.com
2008-02-15 05:04 UTC
This is how it worked for me:

In the code:

$mime = new Mail_mime($crlf);
$mime->addHTMLimage('mail_templates/img/bg.png', 'image/png');

In the html part of mail body:

<img src="mail_templates/img/bg.png"/>

Cheers
Note by: nwalter@easymailing.eu
2007-12-29 07:49 UTC
How can i get Mime_mail to replace my HTML-Image-Tags by CID strings?
Note by: Joseph@ppool.de
2007-08-18 04:07 UTC
Post #1 is wrong for me it is exactly the opposit:
You must not use an absolute system path but must flatten the file name in the SRC="" tag to contain no folder names or slashes.
Note by: jlang
2007-07-20 15:58 UTC
If you want to add inline images and reference them in your HTML you must use the fully qualified system path.

That means year image should look like this:
<img src="/home/public_html/image.gif">
not
<img src="image.gif">

Mail_Mime will replace your src with the appropriate CID value
Note by: info@roxlu.com
2007-06-26 08:57 UTC
I found out that when you are adding html images inline you need to make sure what kind of transport you use. When using the default "mail" function my images weren't shown in some clients. When I switched to "smtp" everything worked perfectly