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I wasted a lot of time trawling the internet for an example of sending an email with attachment, the closest I could get to a working example I found at EdmondsCommerce.co.uk so primary credit goes to him. However I have made some minor modifications which I think make it a little bit easier/nicer.

Copy this straight into a new text file on your web server and modify the first line starting ‘email_attachment( ‘ to represent your own details. Open it up in your browser, and then check your email inbox.

<?php
    email_attachment('to.this@address.com', 'my.email@address.com', 'Email attachment', 'My Name', 'my.email@address.com', 'myfile.jpg');

    function email_attachment($to_email, $email, $subject, $our_email_name, $our_email, $file_location, $default_filetype='application/zip'){

    $fileatt = $file_location;

    if(function_exists(mime_content_type)){
        $fileatttype = mime_content_type($file_location);
    }else{
        $fileatttype = $default_filetype;;
    }

    $fileattname =basename($file_location);
    //prepare attachment
    $file = fopen( $fileatt, 'rb' );
    $data = fread( $file, filesize( $fileatt ) );
    fclose( $file );
    $data = chunk_split( base64_encode( $data ) );

    //create mime boundary
    $semi_rand = md5( time() );
    $mime_boundary = "==Multipart_Boundary_x{$semi_rand}x";

    //Create email  section
    $message = "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n\n" .
        "--{$mime_boundary}\n" .
        "Content-type: text/html; charset=us-ascii\n" .
        "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n" .
    $email . "\n\n";

    //create attachment section
    $message .= "--{$mime_boundary}\n" .
        "Content-Type: {$fileatttype};\n" .
        " name=\"{$fileattname}\"\n" .
        "Content-Disposition: attachment;\n" .
        " filename=\"{$fileattname}\"\n" .
        "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n\n" .
    $data . "\n\n" .
        "--{$mime_boundary}--\n";

    //headers
    $exp=explode('@', $our_email);
    $domain = $exp[1];
    $headers = "From: $our_email_name<$our_email>" . "\n";
    $headers .= "Reply-To: $our_email"."\n";
    $headers .= "Return-Path: $our_email" . "\n";    // these two to set reply address
    $headers .= "Message-ID: <".time()."@" . $domain . ">"."\n";
    $headers .= "Date: ".date("r")."\n";
    $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n" .
        "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;\n" .
        " boundary=\"{$mime_boundary}\"";

    if (mail($to_email,$subject,$message, $headers, '-f ' . $our_email))
        echo 'Success';
    else
        echo 'Error';
    }
?>

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