How to add image to php mail body

Question

I'm trying to add image to mail body from folder.but it not display only display text on alt tag.this is my code.

<?php 
   $to = $email;
        $subject="Reservation notification From abc";
        $from = 'abc@abc.com';
            $body = '<html><body>';
            $body .= '<img src="img/logo.png" alt="Hotel" /><br/>';
            $body .= '<table rules="all" style="border-color: #666;" cellpadding="10">';
            $body .= '<p style="color:#3366FF;font-size:14px;">Hello'.' '.$name.',</p>';
            $body .= "</table>";
            $body .= "</body></html>";

        $headers = "From: $from \r\n";
        $headers .= "Reply-To: $$from \r\n";
        $headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n" .
           'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n" .

           'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

        mail($to, $subject, $body,$headers);
?>

img/logo.png works on web pages because browser considers it as a relative url and appends your domain name to the src. But in emails you should use absolute paths. Check my answer below. — Ananth, Nov 11 '14 at 09:51

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 11 '14 at 09:50

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This should work as expected:

<?php 
    ...
    $body .= '<img src="http://domain.com/absolute/path/to/image/img/logo.png" alt="Hotel" /><br/>';
    ...
?>

answered Nov 11 '14 at 09:50

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My image locaton in 'Ubuntu' is `/var/www/html/test_mail/logo.png` so I used `'` which is full absolute path, but it is not sending the image by using **mail()** function. So what should I do now ? – Abhishek Kamal Feb 19 '20 at 17:20
@AbhishekKamal , "Absolute path" means the path at which the image is accessible on the internet, not on your local file system. – Ananth Feb 20 '20 at 12:58
ohhh.. mail() function can only send images if images are only on the internet not on local-computer . I got it ! – Abhishek Kamal Feb 21 '20 at 13:53

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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You can either link to a fully qualified URL of the image, e.g. http://yourserver.com/images/image.png

Or, you can embed the image in your email using MIME. See this response: PHP Attaching an image to an email

You may choose whichever you want, still it is not guaranteed that the image will be displayed by the mail client - in most cases, the client decides whether it will or will not show the images.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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answered Nov 11 '14 at 09:51

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Another link for the MIME option: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17368770/php-send-an-email-with-image-attachment – cmbuckley Nov 11 '14 at 09:52

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