Email form with attachments

[cfgcjm]

I'm interested in creating a php based form that is capable of sending attachments. I really dont know what to do since an attachment can't really be saved to a variable (i'm guessing). This is the emailer code i've been using but i'm not sure what to add to do attachements.

 

<?
session_start();
$name = $_POST["name"];
$email = $_POST["email"];
$status = $_POST["radio"];
$today = date("d, M Y");
$recipient = "webmaster@etown.edu";
$subject = "assignment mailer";
$forminfo ="From: $name\nEmail: $email\nForm Submitted: $today\n $status 
$sent = mail($recipient, $subject, $forminfo, "From: $email");

[haaglin]

A simple google search gave me this link:

 

http://www.finalwebsites.com/snippets.php?id=36

[cfgcjm]

that looks extremely complex to send a file. There has to be an easier way