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if file exists

May 6th, 2008

i am trying to get an image file to display in an email, the file is stored on the server but it will not send the file with the email. i have been working on this code now for a few days and i cannot get it to work.

the files that i need displaying change so i have incorporated an array to get the file extension, the email is sent with all the text and images which have been coded in using the absolute file path but the images i want to get from the if file exists function will no show.

here is the code for the file exist if anyone can see why this is not working please show me.

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$image = "";
$web_image_folder = 'http://www.acmeart.co.uk/mercury/image/thumbs';
$exts = array('jpg', 'png', 'gif', 'jpeg');
$image_name = 'thumb_image1';
 
 
// check for each extension
foreach($exts as $ext) {
   if (file_exists($web_image_folder.'/'.$image_name.'.'.$ext)) {
     $image = $image_name.'.'.$ext;
   }
}
 
// check if we have an image
if ($image != "") {
    // ok we have the image
    $broad_img1='<img src="' . $web_image_folder."/".$image . '" />';
} else {
    // error, we can't find the image.
}
$image = "";
$web_image_folder = 'http://www.acmeart.co.uk/mercury/image/thumbs';
$exts = array('jpg', 'png', 'gif', 'jpeg');
$image_name = 'thumb_image1';


// check for each extension
foreach($exts as $ext) {
   if (file_exists($web_image_folder.'/'.$image_name.'.'.$ext)) {
     $image = $image_name.'.'.$ext;
   }
}

// check if we have an image
if ($image != "") {
    // ok we have the image
    $broad_img1='<img src="' . $web_image_folder."/".$image . '" />';
} else {
    // error, we can't find the image.
}

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Re: if file exists

May 6th, 2008

Hey Kevin,

Just to clarify, are you saying that the images are not found when executing the file_exists command?? If so, have you tried putting a relative file path in, instead of the absolute path?

Beyond that, I cannot see any issues with the code. I might be inclined to change the section if ($image != "") { for and use is_readable instead, with the relative path passed in again. Just because a file exists, it doesn't mean it is readable.

Best,
R.

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Re: if file exists

May 6th, 2008

the images are there weather it is finding them is another question i would need to put in some echo "file found" along the way to see that. but if you can not see a problem with that code then they must be getting found just not getting displayed.

as the images will be sent out in a email the absolute path to them must be used when displaying them. for the file exist part could the image file along with the extension be found using relative paths. would this section work if the relative paths where used.

when it comes to display the image then the absolute path would have be used to displayed the image as it is being sent out in an email.

the file extensions can only ever be gif, jpeg or png files, it there another way you know of i could get the image to display in the email.

i can upload the page which is to be sent out if that would make this problem clearer for you.

Last edited by kevin wood; May 6th, 2008 at 9:41 am.

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Re: if file exists

May 6th, 2008

Hey Kevin,

Yeah, if you can upload some more content, perhaps the HTML email content, then that may help.

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Re: if file exists

May 6th, 2008

sorry about that just been having ago at the Norton consultants. they want £70 to remove a virus when i have already paid for my license cheeky bast***s. here is all the code for the send email page.

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<?
// You may copy this PHP section to the top of file which needs to access after login.
session_start(); // Use session variable on this page. This function must put on the top of page.
if(!session_is_registered("first_name")){ // if session variable "username" does not exist.
header("location:index.php"); // Re-direct to index.php
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Mercury v1.0 | Admin System</title>
<link href="includes/global.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<style type="text/css">
<!--
.mainTxt {font-size: 11px; color:#444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans;}
.style1 {
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 10px;
	color: #666666;
}
.logout {
	position: fixed;
	width: 50px;
	height: 25px;
	left: 801px;
	top: 57px;
	padding: 0px;
	z-index: 100;
}
* html .logout {
	position: absolute;
top:expression(eval(document.compatMode &&
document.compatMode=='CSS1Compat') ?
documentElement.scrollTop : document.body.scrollTop);
	top: 57px;
	}
.register {
	position: fixed;
	width: 110px;
	height: 25px;
	left: 801px;
	top: 5px;
	padding: 0px;
	z-index: 100;
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 10px;
	color: #333333;
}
* html .register {
	position: absolute;
top:expression(eval(document.compatMode &&
document.compatMode=='CSS1Compat') ?
documentElement.scrollTop : document.body.scrollTop);
	top: 4px;
	}
-->
</style>
<link href="includes/admin.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body {
	background-image: url(admin/images/yrepeat.gif);
}
-->
</style></head>
 
 
<body>
<div class="register"> To register another user to Mercury &copy; &reg;<br />
    click <a href="join_form.php">here</a> <br/>
</div>
<div class="logout">
    <form method='post' action='logout.php'>
        <input type='submit' value='logout' name='logout' />
    </form>
</div>
<?php
$image = "";
$web_image_folder = 'http://www.acmeart.co.uk/mercury/image/thumbs';
$exts = array('jpg', 'png', 'gif', 'jpeg');
$image_name = 'thumb_image1';
 
 
// check for each extension
foreach($exts as $ext) {
   if (file_exists($web_image_folder.'/'.$image_name.'.'.$ext)) {
     $image = $image_name.'.'.$ext;
   }
}
 
// check if we have an image
if ($image != "") {
    // ok we have the image
    $broad_img1='<img src="' . $web_image_folder."/".$image . '" />';
} else {
    // error, we can't find the image.
}
 
 
 
// construct mailing list array
$merc_list = explode(",",$merc_mailingList);
 
// deploy the emails
for($i=0; $i<count($merc_list); $i++){
$message = '<style type="text/css">body {	margin: 0;	background: ;	background-image: url();	background-repeat: no-repeat;
} .mainTxt {font-size: 11px; color:#444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans;} .whiteTxt {font-size: 9px; color:#FFFFFF; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans;} a:link {color:#EB7324} ul {font-size: 9px; color:#EB7324;padding-left: 5px;}
.style3 {font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #FFFFFF; font-weight: bold; }
.style1 {font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;	font-size: 10px;color: #666666;}
</style>';
 
	$message .= '<body leftmargin="0" topmargin="0">
<table width="900" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="5">
    <tr>
        <td height="95" colspan="2" scope="col"><img src=http://www.acmeart.co.uk/mercury/layout/BroadsheetSample/broadhead.jpg width="900" height="150"/></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="25" colspan="2" scope="col"><span class="mainTxt"><strong>' . $broad_topictitle1 . '</strong></span></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <th width="23%" height="200" scope="col"><div align="left">' . $broad_img1 . '
		<p>&nbsp;</p></div></th>
        <td width="77%" scope="col"><table width="99%" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0">
            <tr>
                <td align="left" valign="top"><span class="mainTxt">' . $broad_messagebody1 . '</span></td>
                <!-- End Image 1 -->
            </tr>
        </table>
        <p>&nbsp;</p>
        <p>&nbsp;</p>
        <p>&nbsp;</p>
        <p>&nbsp;</p></td>
    </tr>
	<tr>
        <td height="25" colspan="2" scope="col"><span class="mainTxt"><strong>' . $broad_topictitle2 . '</strong></span></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <th width="23%" height="200" scope="col"><div align="left">' . $broad_img2 . '
		<p>&nbsp;</p></div></th>
        <td width="77%" scope="col"><table width="99%" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0">
            <tr>
                <td align="left" valign="top"><span class="mainTxt">' . $broad_messagebody2 . '</span></td>
                <!-- End Image 1 -->
            </tr>
        </table>
        <p>&nbsp;</p>
        <p>&nbsp;</p>
        <p>&nbsp;</p>
        <p>&nbsp;</p></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td colspan="2" scope="col"><img src="http://www.acmeart.co.uk/mercury/layout/BroadsheetSample/broadfoot.jpg" width="900" height="150" /></td>
    </tr>
 
    <tr>
        <td height="13" colspan="2" scope="col"><div align="justify"><span class="style1">Linacre Voice is a monthly bulletin from LinacreOne Community Partnership 140-142 Linacre Road Litherland L21 8JU Tel: (0151) 922 4898 Open Monday - Thursday 10:00am - 4:00pm <font size="1"></font></span> </div></td>
    </tr>
</table>
</table>
</body>';
 
 
 
	// Contacts
	//$replyName = $merc_replyId;
	//$replyEmail = $merc_replyAddress;
 
	$replyName = "$merc_replyId";
	$replyEmail = $merc_list[$i];
 
	$contactname = "";
	$contactemail = $merc_list[$i];
 
	// Subject
	$subject = $merc_messageTitle;
 
	// Headers
	$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . PHP_EOL;
	$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" . PHP_EOL;
	$headers .= "From: ".$replyName." <".$replyEmail.">\r\n" . PHP_EOL;
	$headers .= "To: ".$contactname." <".$contactemail.">\r\n" . PHP_EOL;
 
 
	mail($contactemail, $subject, $message, $headers);
	} // END for
 
?>
<div class="fixed2"><img src="admin/images/content_header.gif" alt="content header" width="648" height="281" class="fixed2" /></div><div class="fixed1"><img src="admin/images/navbg.gif" alt="nav bg" width="152" height="600" /></div>
<div class="fixed5">
    <div id="data">
	<?php echo date('l dS F Y h:i:s A'); ?>
 
    <p><?php printf("Mercury has successfully sent out %d broadcasts.<br />
		 <BUTTON onclick=\"window.close();\">close this window</BUTTON>
		 ", count($merc_list)); ?>
	</div>
</div>
</body>
 
</html>
<?
// You may copy this PHP section to the top of file which needs to access after login.
session_start(); // Use session variable on this page. This function must put on the top of page.
if(!session_is_registered("first_name")){ // if session variable "username" does not exist.
header("location:index.php"); // Re-direct to index.php
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Mercury v1.0 | Admin System</title>
<link href="includes/global.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<style type="text/css">
<!--
.mainTxt {font-size: 11px; color:#444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans;}
.style1 {
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 10px;
	color: #666666;
}
.logout {
	position: fixed;
	width: 50px;
	height: 25px;
	left: 801px;
	top: 57px;
	padding: 0px;
	z-index: 100;
}
* html .logout {
	position: absolute;
top:expression(eval(document.compatMode &&
document.compatMode=='CSS1Compat') ?
documentElement.scrollTop : document.body.scrollTop);
	top: 57px;
	}
.register {
	position: fixed;
	width: 110px;
	height: 25px;
	left: 801px;
	top: 5px;
	padding: 0px;
	z-index: 100;
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 10px;
	color: #333333;
}
* html .register {
	position: absolute;
top:expression(eval(document.compatMode &&
document.compatMode=='CSS1Compat') ?
documentElement.scrollTop : document.body.scrollTop);
	top: 4px;
	}
-->
</style>
<link href="includes/admin.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body {
	background-image: url(admin/images/yrepeat.gif);
}
-->
</style></head>


<body>
<div class="register"> To register another user to Mercury &copy; &reg;<br />
    click <a href="join_form.php">here</a> <br/>
</div>
<div class="logout">
    <form method='post' action='logout.php'>
        <input type='submit' value='logout' name='logout' />
    </form>
</div>
<?php
$image = "";
$web_image_folder = 'http://www.acmeart.co.uk/mercury/image/thumbs';
$exts = array('jpg', 'png', 'gif', 'jpeg');
$image_name = 'thumb_image1';


// check for each extension
foreach($exts as $ext) {
   if (file_exists($web_image_folder.'/'.$image_name.'.'.$ext)) {
     $image = $image_name.'.'.$ext;
   }
}

// check if we have an image
if ($image != "") {
    // ok we have the image
    $broad_img1='<img src="' . $web_image_folder."/".$image . '" />';
} else {
    // error, we can't find the image.
}



// construct mailing list array
$merc_list = explode(",",$merc_mailingList);

// deploy the emails
for($i=0; $i<count($merc_list); $i++){
$message = '<style type="text/css">body {	margin: 0;	background: ;	background-image: url();	background-repeat: no-repeat;
} .mainTxt {font-size: 11px; color:#444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans;} .whiteTxt {font-size: 9px; color:#FFFFFF; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans;} a:link {color:#EB7324} ul {font-size: 9px; color:#EB7324;padding-left: 5px;}
.style3 {font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #FFFFFF; font-weight: bold; }
.style1 {font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;	font-size: 10px;color: #666666;}
</style>';

	$message .= '<body leftmargin="0" topmargin="0">
<table width="900" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="5">
    <tr>
        <td height="95" colspan="2" scope="col"><img src=http://www.acmeart.co.uk/mercury/layout/BroadsheetSample/broadhead.jpg width="900" height="150"/></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="25" colspan="2" scope="col"><span class="mainTxt"><strong>' . $broad_topictitle1 . '</strong></span></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <th width="23%" height="200" scope="col"><div align="left">' . $broad_img1 . '
		<p>&nbsp;</p></div></th>
        <td width="77%" scope="col"><table width="99%" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0">
            <tr>
                <td align="left" valign="top"><span class="mainTxt">' . $broad_messagebody1 . '</span></td>
                <!-- End Image 1 -->
            </tr>
        </table>
        <p>&nbsp;</p>
        <p>&nbsp;</p>
        <p>&nbsp;</p>
        <p>&nbsp;</p></td>
    </tr>
	<tr>
        <td height="25" colspan="2" scope="col"><span class="mainTxt"><strong>' . $broad_topictitle2 . '</strong></span></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <th width="23%" height="200" scope="col"><div align="left">' . $broad_img2 . '
		<p>&nbsp;</p></div></th>
        <td width="77%" scope="col"><table width="99%" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0">
            <tr>
                <td align="left" valign="top"><span class="mainTxt">' . $broad_messagebody2 . '</span></td>
                <!-- End Image 1 -->
            </tr>
        </table>
        <p>&nbsp;</p>
        <p>&nbsp;</p>
        <p>&nbsp;</p>
        <p>&nbsp;</p></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td colspan="2" scope="col"><img src="http://www.acmeart.co.uk/mercury/layout/BroadsheetSample/broadfoot.jpg" width="900" height="150" /></td>
    </tr>
    
    <tr>
        <td height="13" colspan="2" scope="col"><div align="justify"><span class="style1">Linacre Voice is a monthly bulletin from LinacreOne Community Partnership 140-142 Linacre Road Litherland L21 8JU Tel: (0151) 922 4898 Open Monday - Thursday 10:00am - 4:00pm <font size="1"></font></span> </div></td>
    </tr>
</table>
</table>
</body>';


	
	// Contacts
	//$replyName = $merc_replyId;
	//$replyEmail = $merc_replyAddress;
	
	$replyName = "$merc_replyId";
	$replyEmail = $merc_list[$i];

	$contactname = "";
	$contactemail = $merc_list[$i];

	// Subject
	$subject = $merc_messageTitle;

	// Headers
	$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . PHP_EOL;
	$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" . PHP_EOL;
	$headers .= "From: ".$replyName." <".$replyEmail.">\r\n" . PHP_EOL;
	$headers .= "To: ".$contactname." <".$contactemail.">\r\n" . PHP_EOL;
	

	mail($contactemail, $subject, $message, $headers);
	} // END for

?>
<div class="fixed2"><img src="admin/images/content_header.gif" alt="content header" width="648" height="281" class="fixed2" /></div><div class="fixed1"><img src="admin/images/navbg.gif" alt="nav bg" width="152" height="600" /></div>
<div class="fixed5">
    <div id="data">
	<?php echo date('l dS F Y h:i:s A'); ?>
	    
    <p><?php printf("Mercury has successfully sent out %d broadcasts.<br />
		 <BUTTON onclick=\"window.close();\">close this window</BUTTON>
		 ", count($merc_list)); ?>
	</div>
</div>
</body>

</html>

sorry about the all the code.

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Re: if file exists

May 6th, 2008

i may be clutching at straws but could it be i have put the if file exists function. i will move this so it is inside the message variable and see if that changes the outcome.

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Re: if file exists

May 6th, 2008

thought as much that didnt work. is it possible to do what i need it to

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Re: if file exists

May 6th, 2008

My guess having seen the above would be that the variable $broad_img1 is out of scope... Try declaring it at the top of the script alongside $image = ""; or alternatively, reassign the HTML <img> string to the $image variable again.

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Re: if file exists

May 6th, 2008

file_exists will not work on http://

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$path_image_folder='mercury/image/thumbs';
 
foreach($exts as $ext) {
   if (file_exists($path_image_folder.'/'.$image_name.'.'.$ext)) {
     $image = $image_name.'.'.$ext;
   }
}
$path_image_folder='mercury/image/thumbs';

foreach($exts as $ext) {
   if (file_exists($path_image_folder.'/'.$image_name.'.'.$ext)) {
     $image = $image_name.'.'.$ext;
   }
}

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robothy

thanks for the reply i will try that and see if that has any effect on the outcome.

amigura

since the images will be sent out as part of an email i need the absolute path with them. so for the if file exists section if i use relative paths there that would work. when it comes to displaying them could i write something like

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'http://www.acmeart.co.uk."/". $web_image_folder."/".$image . '

would that code work i will try it anyway but if it is wrong can you please show me where i went wrong.

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