tutorial: addEmbeddedImage phpmailer

What is addEmbeddedImage() :-

If you want to make a HTML e-mail that refers to images that are also attached to the message (as opposed to pointed at remotely), it's necessary to attach the image with a content identifier and then link the tag to it. For example, if you add an image as inline attachment with the content ID of my-photo, you would access it within the HTML body using

< img src="cid:my-photo" alt="my-photo">.

In detail, here is the function to add an embedded attachment:

$mail->addEmbeddedImage($filename, $cid);

The process of connecting image tags to content identifiers is a bit complicated, but the msgHTML() method can do most of the work for you.

⦁ For Single Image in HTML:-
It is very easy for sending single image in html.

$this->AddEmbeddedImage('/path/to/image.jpg', 'my-image', 'attachment', 'base64', 'image/jpeg');
// replace source with id
< img src="cid:my-image" alt="" />

⦁ For Multiple Images in HTML :-

For more images that are contained in your HTML template, you need an automatic way to do this. Here is the custom function I have written for this.
function embed_images(&$body)

{
// get all img tags
preg_match_all('/<img.?>/', $body, $matches);
if (!isset($matches[0])) return;
// foreach tag, create the cid and embed image
$i = 1;
foreach ($matches[0] as $img)
{
// make cid
$id = 'img'.($i++);
// replace image web path with local path
preg_match('/src="(.?)"/', $body, $m);
if (!isset($m[1])) continue;
$arr = parse_url($m[1]);
if (!isset($arr['host']) || !isset($arr['path']))continue;
// add
$this->AddEmbeddedImage('/home/username/'.$arr['host'].'/public'.$arr['path'], $id, 'attachment', 'base64', 'image/jpeg');
$body = str_replace($img, '', $body);
}
}

⦁ Example:-

⦁ Using embedded image in html Email.

⦁ Without embedded image in html Email.

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