Help with php email w/attachment

[millercj]

What i need to do is have an html form where the user selects a local file on their system and it goes emailed via a php script. I've got this script but now do i adapt it to accept an input from a form, will the $_POST variable from the form suffice for the file location and how do I accept any type of file the user submits...not just PDF's

 

<?php
    
$to = "Chris Miller <[email protected]>"; 
$from = "John-Smith <[email protected]>"; 
$subject = "Here is your attachment"; 
$fileatt = "logo.pdf";
$fileatttype = "application/pdf"; 
$fileattname = "newname.pdf";
$headers = "From: $from";

$file = fopen( $fileatt, 'rb' ); 
$data = fread( $file, filesize( $fileatt ) ); 
fclose( $file ); 

$semi_rand = md5( time() ); 
$mime_boundary = "==Multipart_Boundary_x{$semi_rand}x"; 
    
$headers .= "\nMIME-Version: 1.0\n" . "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;\n" . " boundary=\"{$mime_boundary}\"";
    
$message = "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n\n" . "--{$mime_boundary}\n" . "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n" . "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n" . $message . "\n\n";
    
$data = chunk_split( base64_encode( $data ) );
                 
$message .= "--{$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"; 	

if( mail( $to, $subject, $message, $headers ) ) {         
echo "<p>The email was sent.</p>"; 
    }
    else { 
          echo "<p>There was an error sending the mail.</p>"; 
         }
?>

[stuffradio]

You need to edit a couple of things here.

 

You should make a case for several file types,

 

so for $fileattype you'd do

 

switch($fileatt) {

 

case application/pdf;

// Blah

break;

}

 

Just start by working on that, the make the fileatname to the value that was posted from the form, and maybe someone else can add to what I suggested

 

[millercj]

is there a place where i can find all the file types or are they all just like

 

application/pdf

application/jpg

application/png...

[stuffradio]

You could see if there is a complete list at php.net/mail but I think that part of the site is down right now... not sure though.

[millercj]

Ok i've done this switch but it's not functioning, it always goes to the default case...any ideas?

 

<?php
    
$to = "Chris Miller <[email protected]>"; 
$from = "John-Smith <[email protected]>"; 
$subject = "Here is your attachment"; 
$fileatt = "image.png";

switch ($fileatt)
{
case 'application/pdf':
	$fileatttype = "application/pdf"; 
	$fileattname = "document.pdf";
	break;  

case 'image/jpg':
	$fileatttype = "image/jpg"; 
	$fileattname = "image.jpg";
  	    break;

case 'image/jpeg':
	$fileatttype = "image/jpeg"; 
	$fileattname = "image.jpeg";
  	    break;

case 'image/png':
	$fileatttype = "image/png"; 
	$fileattname = "image.png";
  	    break;

case 'image/gif':
	$fileatttype = "image/gif"; 
	$fileattname = "image.gif";
  	    break;

case 'application/zip':
	$fileatttype = "application/zip"; 
	$fileattname = "picfile.zip";
  	    break;


default:
  echo'theres a problem';
}

$headers = "From: $from";

$file = fopen( $fileatt, 'rb' ); 
$data = fread( $file, filesize( $fileatt ) ); 
fclose( $file ); 

$semi_rand = md5( time() ); 
$mime_boundary = "==Multipart_Boundary_x{$semi_rand}x"; 
    
$headers .= "\nMIME-Version: 1.0\n" . "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;\n" . " boundary=\"{$mime_boundary}\"";
    
$message = "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n\n" . "--{$mime_boundary}\n" . "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n" . "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n" . $message . "\n\n";
    
$data = chunk_split( base64_encode( $data ) );
                 
$message .= "--{$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"; 	

if( mail( $to, $subject, $message, $headers ) ) {         
echo "<p>The email was sent.</p>"; 
    }
    else { 
          echo "<p>There was an error sending the mail.</p>"; 
         }
?>

[millercj]

any ideas?