Sending e-mail via PHPMailer with attachments from URL

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I'm using PHPMailer. I have to send two attachments and both are links (one is base64 image and the second one is url).

// Variables with images
$croped_img = 'data:image/jpg;base64,/extreme_long_code_here';
$photo_thumbnail_url = 'http://t2.ftcdn.net/jpg/00/76/44/75/400_F_76447580_gOWAV0P8APW0iC51OsW5huD6qoiEsh7O.jpg';

// PHPMailer
$mail->addAttachment('$photo_thumbnail_url', 'selected.jpg');
$mail->addAttachment('$croped_img', 'croped_img.jpg');

PHPMailer works because if I send e-mail in that form, attachments do not come. But if I link local image e.g. 'images/abc.jpg' then they comes.

What php functions should I use to send my variables as e-mail attachments?

But how to use this in my case? I'm still trying but It wont work for me. — Walter White
– Walter White, Commented Feb 23, 2015 at 12:43

mega6382 · Accepted Answer · 2023-05-16 23:33:11Z

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As always, make sure you're using a recent version of PHPMailer.

You need to use addStringAttachment, docs here:

$photo_thumbnail_url = 'http://t2.ftcdn.net/jpg/00/76/44/75/400_F_76447580_gOWAV0P8APW0iC51OsW5huD6qoiEsh7O.jpg';
$mail->addStringAttachment(file_get_contents($photo_thumbnail_url), 'selected.jpg');

The msgHTML function handles data URLs automatically, converting them to embedded images with automatic cid values, so if your image is already embedded in your HTML, you don't have to do anything for it to work.

If you want to handle data URL conversion yourself, you can see how it works here.

edited May 16, 2023 at 23:33

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answered Feb 23, 2015 at 13:59

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Synchro · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-23 13:40:27Z

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Make SURE that your PHPMailer library is up-to-date!

and then try this one,

$mail->AddEmbeddedImage($photo_thumbnail_url, 'selected.jpg');
$mail->AddEmbeddedImage($croped_img, 'croped_img.jpg');

edited Feb 23, 2015 at 13:40

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answered Feb 23, 2015 at 13:12

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Walter White Over a year ago

It's doesn't work. I would like to attach instead of embed. In documentation I found this: AddAttachment($path,$name,$encoding,$type); but It still won't work.

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