send email with attachment using php

I used this code to send email with attachment using php, but there is something error in the attachment since I receive an email and the attachment appears in the content. before I use the same code and it worked successfully. why???

<?php
// sending email with attachments

    function sendEmail($to,$from,$file,$ext){

      $to = "[email protected]";
     $from = "[email protected]";
      $subject = "Translation Request";

  $random_hash = md5(date('r', time()));

  $headers = "From: [email protected]\r\nReply-To: [email protected]";

  $headers .= "\r\nContent-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"PHP-mixed-".$random_hash."\"";

  $attachment = chunk_split(base64_encode(file_get_contents("Test.doc")));

  $output = "
        --PHP-mixed-$random_hash;
        Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary='PHP-alt-$random_hash'
        --PHP-alt-$random_hash
        Content-Type: text/plain; charset='iso-8859-1'
        Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

        Hello World!
        This is the simple text version of the email message.

        --PHP-alt-$random_hash
        Content-Type: text/html; charset='iso-8859-1'
        Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

        <h2>Hello World!</h2>
        <p>This is the <b>HTML</b> version of the email message.</p>

        --PHP-alt-$random_hash--

        --PHP-mixed-$random_hash
        Content-Type: application/doc; name=Test.doc
        Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
        Content-Disposition: attachment

        $attachment
        --PHP-mixed-$random_hash--";
      $send =  @mail($to, $subject, $output, $headers);
  return $send;
  }
?>

please help.

Solution 1:

for what reason no use phpmailer? example for an attachment:

function mandaMail ($nombredest, $maildest, $asunto, $cuerpo) {
require_once("mailer/class.phpmailer.php");
$mail = new PHPMailer(true);
$mail->IsSMTP();

try {
    $mail->Host = "xxxx"; $mail->Port = 25; // smtp server
    $mail->SMTPAuth = true;
    $mail->Username = "xxxx"; // smtp username
    $mail->Password = "xxxx"; // smtp pass
    $mail->AddReplyTo("xxxx", "xxxx"); // email & name
    $mail->SetFrom("xxxx", "xxxx"); // similar to up value

    $mail->AddAddress($maildest, $nombredest);
    $mail->Subject = $asunto;
    $mail->MsgHTML(file_get_contents($cuerpo));

    $mail->AddAttachment("xxxx", "xxxx"); // attachments directory, attachment name (ie: dir/blah.jpg, blah.jpg)
    $mail->Send();

} catch (phpmailerException $e) { echo $e->errorMessage();
} catch (Exception $e) { echo $e->getMessage(); }

Solution 2:

You can either do it the way this tutorial describes, or you can use one of the PEAR modules to send an email with an attachment the way this tutorial describes.

Using PEAR is probably a better option as it's easier to do. The only caveat is that PEAR isn't available on all hosts.