[SOLVED] Adding Attachment to Email?

[j.g.]

Hello List-

 

This is my first time attempting this; but I'd like to add a file selected by the user to the email that is sent to the recipient...  I've got the basics done where it's allowing the input for the name, email, phone, and browsing to select a file; and it's sending an email w/ the name, email, and phone in it, but I don't know how to incorporate the attaching of the email to this email.

 

Here's my code:

 

session_start();
require_once("$DOCUMENT_ROOT/includes/form_functions.php");
require_once("$DOCUMENT_ROOT/includes/form_processor.php");
  
$to = '[email protected]';

$headers = 'From: [email protected]' . "\r\n" .
    'Reply-To: [email protected]' . "\r\n" .
    'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

$subject = "Employment Form";

$items = array('name', 
                'email',
                'phone',
                'resume file');
                
$required = array();                

if( $_POST["submit"] == "Submit" )
{

    $required = array( "name"	=>	"text",           						
         	     "email"   =>	"text",
         	     "phone"  =>	"text"
		    );
		       	          
   $error_msg = form_processor( $required, $_POST, $num_results = 1 );

   if( !$error_msg )
  {
	  
      $message = '';
      foreach($items as $i => $item)
      {
          $message .= ucfirst($item).": ".$_POST[$item]."\n\r";
      }
      $message .= "Sent: ".date('Y-m-d h:i:s')."\n\r";
  
      if (mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers))
      {
          header ("Location: /thankyouform.php");
  exit();
      }
   }
}
  
require_once("header.php")

 

Any help or direction that you could give me to get this working is greatly appreciated b/c I just cannot get this working!

 

Thanks,

-j.g.

[lemmin]

You could try this:

http://www.shelldorado.com/articles/mailattachments.html

[MadTechie]

personally i found phpmailer works really well..

if not then setup the mime etc, see lemmin post

[j.g.]

Thanks for the replies!

 

I ended up going the phpmailer route; but, am still at the same spot -- sending email w/ name, phone, and email, but file is not attached.

 

Here's my line for it (what's wrong w/ it??):

$mail->AddAttachment($_FILES["file_name"]["name"]);

 

 

And here's my input field for the file:

<div align="left">Attach Resume

  <input TYPE='FILE' NAME='file_name' "SIZE='40'/>

</div>

 

Entire php code:

  session_start();
  require_once("$DOCUMENT_ROOT/includes/form_functions.php");
  require_once("$DOCUMENT_ROOT/includes/form_processor.php");
  
  //set up the emailer
  require_once("$LIBRARY_ROOT/class.phpmailer.php");
  
  $mail = new PHPMailer();

  $mail->From = '[email protected]';
  $mail->FromName = '[email protected]';
  $mail->Subject = 'Employment Form Submission';

$items = array('name', 
                'email',
                'phone',
                'resume file');
                
$required = array();                

if( $_POST["submit"] == "Submit" )
{

   $required = array( "name" =>	"text",           						
		   "email"  =>	"text",
		   "phone" =>	"text"
      	          );
		       	          
   $error_msg = form_processor( $required, $_POST, $num_results = 1 );

   if( !$error_msg )
   {
	  
     $body = '';
     foreach($items as $i => $item)
     {
        $body .= ucfirst($item).": ".$_POST[$item]."\n\r";
     }
     $body .= "Sent: ".date('Y-m-d h:i:s')."\n\r";
        
     //send the email
     $mail->Body = $body;
     $mail->AddAddress('[email protected]');
     $mail->AddAttachment($_FILES["file_name"]["name"]);
        
     if ($mail->Send())
     {
        header ("Location: /thankyou.php");
        exit();

     }
     else
     {
          "There has been an error sending your email to TERM Billing.<br>";
     }
   }
}
  
require_once("header.php")

 

Thanks much!

-j.g.

[j.g.]

I've even tried referring to the file directly by using it's 'tmp' value, but still not attaching the file...

 

$mail->AddAttachment($_FILES["file_name"]["tmp"]);

 

 

Does anyone see what I'm doing wrong?  ???

 

 

Thanks again!

-j.g.

[MadTechie]

check the upload works by storeing the file in a temp dir, then attach from their, after that unlink the file

[j.g.]

Thanks for the help!

 

So if anyone else runs into this same issue, this was resolved by tweaking the 'AddAttachment' line:

 

$mail->AddAttachment($_FILES["file_name"]["tmp_name"],$_FILES["file_name"]["name"]);

 

Hope that helps someone else in the future!

-j.g.