Please help with email attachments code

newtophp2 · February 8, 2010

I don't know php. I'm just a mom who has been "recruited" to work on our elementary school website, usually pretty basic stuff which I'm ok with. I do have a background in database design/programming, I'm just getting into web stuff in my spare time while raising my kids.

i have been asked to create a form where people can email pictures to someone... multiple pictures. i found and copied some code online and it worked - for one picture. I added in the other fields and modified the code a bit to what I thought would work, but it doesn't. can someone look at this and tell me how to attach the multiple fields fileatt1, fileatt2, fileatt3 etc??

first i have a form.php file:

<!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=utf-8" />
<title>Form Sample</title>
</head>

<body>

<form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="form_mailer.php">
<table width="455" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
  <tr>
    <td width="175" height="44" align="center"><label for"name">name</label></td>
    <td width="280"><input name="name" type="text" id="name" size="30" />
      </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td height="45" align="center"><label for="email">email</label></td>
    <td><input name="email" type="text" id="email" size="30" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td height="41" align="center"><label for="question">question</label></td>
    <td><textarea name="question" cols="30" rows="5" id="question"></textarea></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td height="38"> </td>
    <td><label>
      <input type="submit" name="Submit" id="Submit" value="Submit" />
    </label></td>
  </tr>
</table>

</form>
</body>
</html>

then an email.php file:

<?php 

ob_start(); 

$to = 'myemail.com'; 

$name = $_POST['name']; 
$email = $_POST['email']; 
$subject = 'Web Submission'; 
$comments = $_POST['comments']; 
$hidden = $_POST['hidden']; 
$from = $email; 

print (' 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" 
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> 

<html lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<head> 
     <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> 
       <title>Email</title> 
<script type="text/javascript"> 
/*<![CDATA[*/ 
function progress(){ 
intWidth = parseInt(document.getElementById("container1").style.width) + 1; 
if(intWidth <= 400){ 
     document.getElementById("container1").style.width = intWidth+"px"; 
}else{ 
     document.getElementById("container1").style.width = 0; 
} 
     setTimeout("progress()",300); 
} 
/*]]>*/ 
</script> 
</head> 

<body> 
'); 


//Do a reg_ex check on the email 
if (!empty ($hidden)) {     
   $regexp = "^([_a-z0-9-]+)(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@([a-z0-9-]+)(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,4})$"; 
   if (eregi($regexp, $email)) 
   { 
   }else{ 
       $email = ''; 
   } 
} 
// End of email checking 


if (empty ($hidden)) { 

print ('<div id="container2"> 
<h1 id="content_h1"><a name="text">    E-mail </a></h1> <p>Please use the following form to e-mail us:</p> 

'); 

include ("form.php");     
     
print ('</div> 

<div id="container0" style="display: none;"> 

<p style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: sans-serif; color:#fd6700; background:#fff;"> 
    Loading... 
    </p> 

<div id="container1" style="width:0px; height:5px; background-color:#fd6700; margin-top:0px; text-align: left;"></div> 

<p>Please be patient while your data is processed. This may take a few moments especially if you are uploading a file.</p> 

</div> 
'); 

} 

if (!empty ($hidden)) { 
     
    if ($_FILES['fileatt1']['error'] == 1){ 
        print ('<h1 id="content_h1"><a name="text">There has been an error</a></h1>   
                <p>The maximum file size that can be uploaded using this form is 2 megabytes. 
                </p>'); 
                 
    }elseif ( (!empty ($name)) && (!empty ($email)) && (!empty ($comments))&& (!empty ($subject))) { 
     
    // Get html message content 
$form_data = "<p>This email is from <span class=\"bold\">$name</span> \n\n "; 
$form_data .= "<p>$comments</p>"; 

$message =         "<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN\" \n" . 
                "    \"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd\"> \n" . 
                "<html xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"> \n" . 
                "<head> \n" . 
                "  <meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content= \n" . 
                "  \"text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\" /> \n" . 
                "<style type=\"text/css\"> \n" . 
                "body {    font-size: 9pt; font-family:  verdana, sans-serif;     color: #000; background:#fff; }  \n" . 
                ".bold { font-weight: bold; }  \n" . 
                "</style>  \n" . 
                "</head> \n" . 
                "<body>$form_data \n" . 
                "</body> \n" . 
                "</html> \n\n"; 

// Obtain file upload vars 
$fileatt1      = $_FILES['fileatt1']['tmp_name']; 
$fileatt_type = $_FILES['fileatt1']['type']; 
$fileatt_name = $_FILES['fileatt1']['name']; 


$headers = "From: $from"; 

if (is_uploaded_file($fileatt1)) { 
// Read the file to be attached ('rb' = read binary) 
$file = fopen($fileatt1,'rb'); 
$data = fread($file,filesize($fileatt1)); 
fclose($file); 

if (is_uploaded_file($fileatt2)) { 
// Read the file to be attached ('rb' = read binary) 
$file = fopen($fileatt2,'rb'); 
$data = fread($file,filesize($fileatt2)); 
fclose($file); 

if (is_uploaded_file($fileatt3)) { 
// Read the file to be attached ('rb' = read binary) 
$file = fopen($fileatt3,'rb'); 
$data = fread($file,filesize($fileatt3)); 
fclose($file); 

if (is_uploaded_file($fileatt4)) { 
// Read the file to be attached ('rb' = read binary) 
$file = fopen($fileatt4,'rb'); 
$data = fread($file,filesize($fileatt4)); 
fclose($file); 

if (is_uploaded_file($fileatt5)) { 
// Read the file to be attached ('rb' = read binary) 
$file = fopen($fileatt5,'rb'); 
$data = fread($file,filesize($fileatt5)); 
fclose($file); 

// Generate a boundary string 
$semi_rand = md5(time()); 
$mime_boundary = "==Multipart_Boundary_x{$semi_rand}x"; 

// Add the headers for a file attachment 
$headers .= "\nMIME-Version: 1.0\n" . 
             "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;\n" . 
             " boundary=\"{$mime_boundary}\""; 

// Add a multipart boundary above the html message 
$message = "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n\n" . 
            "--{$mime_boundary}\n" . 
            "Content-Type: text/html; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n" . 
            "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n" . 
            $message . "\n\n"; 
                         

// Base64 encode the file data 
$data = chunk_split(base64_encode($data)); 

//We now have everything we need to write the portion of the message that contains the file attachment. Here's the code: 

// Add file attachment to the message 
$message .= "--{$mime_boundary}\n" . 
             "Content-Type: {$fileatt_type};\n" . 
             " name=\"{$fileatt_name}\"\n" . 
             "Content-Disposition: attachment;\n" . 
             " filename=\"{$fileatt_name}\"\n" . 
             "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n\n" . 
             $data . "\n\n" . 
             "--{$mime_boundary}--\n"; 
}else{ 
     // Generate a boundary string 
$semi_rand = md5(time()); 
$mime_boundary = "==Multipart_Boundary_x{$semi_rand}x"; 

// Add the headers for a file attachment 
$headers .= "\nMIME-Version: 1.0\n" . 
             "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;\n" . 
             " boundary=\"{$mime_boundary}\""; 

// Add a multipart boundary above the html message 
$message = "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n\n" . 
            "--{$mime_boundary}\n" . 
            "Content-Type: text/html; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n" . 
            "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n" . 
            $message . "\n\n"; 
}                         


//That completes the modifications necessary to accommodate a file attachment. We can now send the message with a quick call to mail: 

// Send the message 
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers); 

$body = "Dear $name, \n\nThank you for your email. We will contact you as soon as possible regarding the matter. \n \n"; 

mail ($email, "Re: Web Submission", $body, 'From:myemail.com'); 

print ('<h1 id="content_h1"><a name="text">            Thank you             </a></h1> <p>We will contact you as soon as possible. You will receive an automatic e-mail immediately confirming the reception of your email.</p>'); 

}else{ 
    print ('<h1 id="content_h1"><a name="text">There has been an error</a></h1>  <p>Please fill in all the compulsory fields correctly and then resubmit the form. Thank you.</p>'); 
    include ("form.php");     
} 
} 

// This is the end of the insert 

print (' 

  </div> 
</body> 
</html> 
'); 

ob_end_flush(); 

?>

Thank you!

newtophp2 · February 8, 2010

Rats!! That was not the form.php form that worked! Sorry I was trying a lot of different ways and posted the wrong thing. Here is the form.php that worked along side the email.php -- again, before I added the additional fields (fileatt2, 3, 4, 5), it worked with just one fileatt.

 <body bgcolor="#E1E1E1">

	<div id="form"> 
        <form  action="email.php" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post" onsubmit=" 
        document.getElementById('container0').style.display=''; 
        document.getElementById('container2').style.display='none'; 
        progress(); 
        return true;"> 
        <p align="center"><font size="6" color="#800000"><b>My School<br>
	</b></font>Test Page</p>
        <fieldset id="fieldset"> 
        <label for="name">Contact name<span style="color: red;">*</span>:</label> 
        <input <?php if (!empty ($hidden)) { if (empty ($name)) { print 'style="background: pink;"'; } } ?> class="form_elements" id="name" type="text" name="name" value="<?php print "$name"; ?>" tabindex="1" /> 
        <br /> 
        <label for="email">E-mail address<span style="color: red;">*</span>:</label> 
        <input <?php if (!empty ($hidden)) { if (empty ($email)) { print 'style="background: pink;"'; } } ?> class="form_elements" id="email" type="text" name="email" value="<?php print "$email"; ?>" tabindex="1" /> 
        <br />     
        <label for="comments">Comments<span style="color: red;">*</span>:</label> 
        <textarea <?php if (!empty ($hidden)) { if (empty ($comments)) { print 'style="background: pink;"'; } } ?>class="form_elements" id="comments" name="comments" cols="75" rows="5" tabindex="1"><?php print "$comments"; ?></textarea> 
        <br /><br /> 
        <label for="fileatt1">Attach Picture 1:</label> 
        <input id="fileatt1" type="file" name="fileatt1"  tabindex="1" /> 
        <p> 
        <label for="fileatt2">Attach Picture 2:</label> 
        <input id="fileatt2" type="file" name="fileatt2"  tabindex="2" /> </p>
	<p> 
        <label for="fileatt3">Attach Picture 3:</label> 
        <input id="fileatt3" type="file" name="fileatt3"  tabindex="3" /> </p>
	<p> 
        <label for="fileatt4">Attach Picture4:</label> 
        <input id="fileatt4" type="file" name="fileatt4"  tabindex="4" /> </p>
	<p> 
        <label for="fileatt5">Attach Picture5:</label> 
        <input id="fileatt5" type="file" name="fileatt5"  tabindex="5" /> 
        <br /> 
        <input  type="hidden" name="hidden"  value="1" /><br /> 
        <label for="submit"><span style="color: red;">*</span> Required.<br>
	<br>
	</label> 
         <input id="submit" type="submit" value="Send" tabindex="6" /> 
        </p>
        </fieldset> 
        </form> 
        </div>

PLEASE HELP!!

newtophp2 · February 8, 2010

I got it!!! thanks anyway.

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