Inline Image in Emails as Attachment

[miriam_t]

Hello all!

I tried to send my email header as an inline image, so customers may not need to download the image seperately. This works for a lot of newsletters and looks far more professional to me.

I know that the image must be attached to the email by a base64-enconding and a cid no. I created a little function in php to send my logo-file via email in this mime-coding and received that well.

In my search to include this file with its encoding to zen-carts email functions I found that in class.phpmailer.php there is already such a function to base64-encode an attachment.

How do I use this?

I tried to put in my values like this:

function AddEmbeddedImage($path="email/", $cid, $name = "rr-h1.gif", $encoding = "base64",
  $type = "image/gif") {

    if(!@is_file($path))
    {
      $this->SetError($this->Lang("file_access") . $path);
      return false;
    }

    $filename = basename($path);
    if($name == "")
    $name = $filename;

    // Append to $attachment array
    $cur = count($this->attachment);
    $this->attachment[$cur][0] = $path;
    $this->attachment[$cur][1] = $filename;
    $this->attachment[$cur][2] = $name;
    $this->attachment[$cur][3] = $encoding;
    $this->attachment[$cur][4] = $type;
    $this->attachment[$cur][5] = false; // isStringAttachment
    $this->attachment[$cur][6] = "inline";
    $this->attachment[$cur][7] = $cid;

    return true;
  } 

But my image doesn't come in my inbox...

Does anybody use this and knows a HowTo?

[DrByte]

Skip the changes you posted above. That's the wrong approach.

Instead, replace your /includes/functions/functions_email.php file with the (experimental) one in the attached zip file.
Then edit your /email/email*.html template files and for any IMG tag you want the image to be embedded for, simply add embed="yes" inside the IMG tag, like this:

<img src="email/header.jpg" embed="yes" />

You can do similarly in newsletters if you manually edit the raw HTML before sending and set the embed attribute appropriately.

[miriam_t]

That's working!

Thank you very much!

Will this be part of a future version ?

[DrByte]

Yes, that code comes from the unreleased v1.3.9 files.