[austinjackson]

Is there a way to attach an image generated by GD without first outputting the image to file?

Also, how does one link to the attached file from within the email body (HTML email)?

This has been racking my brain for weeks.

Aj

[larkost]

To get the data for the image just use fopen/fgets on a URL to request the image from a separate script (so you would have two scripts, and actually call one from the other as if it was a browser). You can find some quick documentation on the PHP site:

http://www.php.net/mailing-lists.php

I haven't created HTML email, so don't know the linking process, but the data is undoubtedly just part of the MIME/Mulitipart stream... You might want to make sure you get the encoding right... Hope that sends you in the right direction.

[austinjackson]

Originally posted by larkost:
To get the data for the image just use fopen/fgets on a URL to request the image from a separate script (so you would have two scripts, and actually call one from the other as if it was a browser). You can find some quick documentation on the PHP site:

http://www.php.net/mailing-lists.php

I haven't created HTML email, so don't know the linking process, but the data is undoubtedly just part of the MIME/Mulitipart stream... You might want to make sure you get the encoding right... Hope that sends you in the right direction.

OK, thanks, this is actually extremely helpful. I am doing that now when I display the image in a browser, I just did not know if the fopen or fgets on the URL would read the code from the php itself or the imaged generated by the function called within it. Thanks a bunch, I will post back if/when I get it working!

Aj

[austinjackson]

Problem solved!!! You need to use the output control functions to get it done, but it works splendidly!

Thank you for the assistance!