Reputation: 11702
I have an input on my form to allow a user to browse to a file location. The idea being that they can attach a resume to to the application they are getting ready to submit.
<label class="description" for="element_5">Upload a File </label>
<div>
<input id="element_5" name="element_5" class="element file" type="file"/>
For my text feilds and dropdowns I have been using something along the lines of:
$experince = $_POST["experince"];
But I don't want the path string i want the actual file. How do I get the file itself and how do I attach it to the email?
Also, is there a easy way to limit the attachment to .DOC / .PDF?
Upvotes: 0
Views: 5624
Reputation: 1110
Here is what I have done to send a mail with an attachment. Some of the code is mine and some of it has been taken from http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php. This code has been tried and tested so, it should work. Also see if sendmail is installed. If on linux ubuntu system try sudo apt-get install sendmail to install it. The best part about this code is that it works for multiple file uploads.
File Name: index.php
<?php
if( $_POST || $_FILES )
{
// email fields: to, from, subject, and so on
// Here
$from = "[email protected]";
$to = "someone_else@somewhere_else.com";
$subject = "Mail with Attachment";
$message = "This is the message body and to it I will append the attachments.";
$headers = "From: $from";
// boundary
$semi_rand = md5(time());
$mime_boundary = "==Multipart_Boundary_x{$semi_rand}x";
// headers for attachment
$headers .= "\nMIME-Version: 1.0\n" . "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;\n" . " boundary=\"{$mime_boundary}\"";
// multipart boundary
$message = "--{$mime_boundary}\n" . "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n"."Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n" . $message . "\n\n";
fixFilesArray($_FILES['attachment']);
foreach ($_FILES['attachment'] as $position => $file)
{
// should output array with indices name, type, tmp_name, error, size
$message .= "--{$mime_boundary}\n";
$fp = @fopen($file['tmp_name'],"rb");
$data = @fread($fp,filesize($file['tmp_name']));
@fclose($fp);
$data = chunk_split(base64_encode($data));
$message .= "Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name=\"".$file['name']."\"\n"."Content-Description: ".$file['name']."\n" ."Content-Disposition: attachment;\n" . " filename=\"".$file['name']."\";size=".$file['size'].";\n"."Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n\n" . $data . "\n\n";
}
$message .= "--{$mime_boundary}--";
$returnpath = "-f" . $from;
$ok = @mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers, $returnpath);
if($ok){ return 1; } else { return 0; }
}
//This function will correct file array from $_FILES[[file][position]] to $_FILES[[position][file]] .. Very important
function fixFilesArray(&$files)
{
$names = array( 'name' => 1, 'type' => 1, 'tmp_name' => 1, 'error' => 1, 'size' => 1);
foreach ($files as $key => $part) {
// only deal with valid keys and multiple files
$key = (string) $key;
if (isset($names[$key]) && is_array($part)) {
foreach ($part as $position => $value) {
$files[$position][$key] = $value;
}
// remove old key reference
unset($files[$key]);
}
}
}
?>
<html>
<body>
<form method="POST" action="index.php" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="file" name="attachment[]"><br/>
<input type="submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>
By the way, I would like to apologize for using sendmail since it is a bit slow. I will try to post a better solution.
Upvotes: 0
Reputation: 11702
This is what i have so far but its not working
<input id="resumeup" name="resumeup" type="file"/>
<?php $_FILES = $_POST["resumeup"];
if ((($_FILES["file"]["type"] == "image/gif")
|| ($_FILES["file"]["type"] == "image/jpeg")
|| ($_FILES["file"]["type"] == "image/pjpeg"))
&& ($_FILES["file"]["size"] < 20000))
{
if ($_FILES["file"]["error"] > 0)
{
echo "Error: " . $_FILES["file"]["error"] . "<br />";
}
else
{
echo "Upload: " . $_FILES["file"]["name"] . "<br />";
echo "Type: " . $_FILES["file"]["type"] . "<br />";
echo "Size: " . ($_FILES["file"]["size"] / 1024) . " Kb<br />";
echo "Stored in: " . $_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"];
}
} ?>
Upvotes: -1
Reputation: 96159
Take a look at
Upvotes: 3
Reputation: 30414
I did something similar to this recently. It is not trivial.
Your email message will have to be a multipart Mime message. You will read in your file, encode it (using base64), then place it in your email message string in the correct spot.
This looks like a decent tutorial (that I wish I had found before): http://www.texelate.co.uk/blog/send-email-attachment-with-php/
But note that the tutorial has some escape issues:
$message . "“nn";
should be:
$message . "\n\n";
You can also look into the Mail_Mime PEAR package for help: http://pear.php.net/package/Mail_Mime
Upvotes: 3