Adding embedded images within mail body phpmailer class

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Im trying to embed an image within my message body but it ends up as an attachment

    $mailer->Subject = APP_NAME . " - " . $name . " send you and Ad : " . $row['name'];
    $mailer->IsHTML(true);
    $mailer->AddEmbeddedImage('../images/namDiams.png', 'logoimg', 'namDimes.png'); 

    //footer
    $footer = "Regards<br/><br/>";
    $footer .= '<table style="width: 95%">';
    $footer .= '<tr>';
    $footer .= '<td>';
    $footer .= "<strong><span style='font-size: 15px'>NamDimes Team</span></strong><br/>
                    NamDimes<br/>
                    Contact Number: " . APP_CONTACT . "<br/>
                    Email: " . APP_EMAIL . "<br/>
                    Website: " . APP_WEBSITE . "<br/>";
    $footer .= '</td>';
    $footer .= '<td style="text-align:right">';
    $footer .= '<img src=\"cid:logoimg\" />';
    $footer .= '</td>';
    $footer .= '</tr>';
    $footer .= '</table>';

    $mailer->Body = $body . $footer;
    $mailer->AltBody="This is text only alternative body.";
    $mailer->AddAttachment('../' . $row['image_path'], $row['name'] . ".jpg");

i have set everything else, including the addresses, the mail gets send out, logo image that I want embed in the body gets attached as an attachment, anyone know why?

You code seems to work. Be sure to have latest PHPmailer version. By the way, IMHO you should use external images and not embedded ones. — Ghigo, Mar 20 '13 at 08:43
i dont get you on the externel images part, kind of new to this — Lappies, Mar 20 '13 at 08:47
just plain `http://` links. Just like `http://your.site.com/img/mypic.png` — Ghigo, Mar 20 '13 at 08:49
Embedded images vs external images are two completely different things – if you want to make sure the image gets displayed in as many mail clients as possible, you should stick with embedded images – because external images are highly likely to get blocked to avoid user tracking. — CBroe, Mar 20 '13 at 09:13
And what about removing backslashes in the img src? like this `$footer .= '';` — JoDev, Oct 16 '13 at 12:32

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 10 '17 at 17:09

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Don't use $mailer->AddEmbeddedImage, but directly add

<img src="http://.../images/namDiams.png" /> instead.

The mail length should be lighter... And it works.

EDIT

I don't know if it will help you but there is a little mistake here :

$mailer->AddEmbeddedImage('../images/namDiams.png', 'logoimg', 'namDimes.png');

Should be

$mailer->AddEmbeddedImage('../images/namDiams.png', 'logoimg', 'namDiames.png');//the last param the second 'a' was missing...

Another topic here

edited Nov 10 '17 at 17:09

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answered Mar 20 '13 at 09:00

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some how the src attribute is removed from the img tag if i do this – Lappies Mar 20 '13 at 09:04

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Nov 11 '13 at 06:39

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I can confirm that user2189925's answer does work. However, I use the absolute path since the location of the calling script is more likely to change than the location of the image.
e.g.

<img src="C:\folder\images\namDiames.png" />

edited Nov 11 '13 at 06:39

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answered Nov 11 '13 at 06:20

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Pointing to a local file on your harddrive will never show up in the actual e-mail. So this will never work. – Jun 07 '16 at 09:21
This worked for me. PHPMailer was smart enough to embed the image in the email by replacing the value of the `src` attribute with the actual source data of the image. – NathanW Jun 07 '16 at 16:46

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Oct 01 '17 at 02:39

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Faced the same problem, then I decided to replace the following

<img src="img/example.jpg"

with

<img src= "https://mysitename.com/img/example.jpg">

and it worked.

edited Oct 01 '17 at 02:39

answered Oct 01 '17 at 01:59

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score -3 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 20 '13 at 09:18

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just give path of your image to the mail body eg: (img src="../images/cat.jpeg) it will definately work

answered Mar 20 '13 at 09:18

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Adding embedded images within mail body phpmailer class

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