Question

Php form to send email with 2 attachments..

Asked by: Rev22only

hello

i am trying to submit a form and send email with 2 attachments..

I am attaching the code I am trying.
I am getting files to attach from the following code.. where file1 and file2 are the file input tags

 $attachments[]=$_POST['file1']; // absolute file path here
$attachments[]=$_POST['file2'];

The code runs fine if the files are placed in root of the drive.. I think the file path is not posted
$attachments[0] holds only the file name but not the path..

How to make this work..
thanks..

<?php
$to = "xxx@gmail.com";
$from = "xxx@gmail.com";
$from_name = "Administrator"; 
$subject = "This is a test email";
$message = "Here is my message...Text or <b>HTML</b>."; 
$attachments = array();
$attachments[]=$_POST['coverletter']; // absolute file path here
$attachments[]=$_POST['resume']; 
mail($from, "Responding subject", "", "From: Responder Name "); 

function send_email($to, $from, $from_name, $subject, $message, $attachments=false)
{
$headers = "From: ".$from_name."<".$from.">\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: ".$from_name."<".$from.">\n";
$headers .= "Return-Path: ".$from_name."<".$from.">\n";
$headers .= "Message-ID: <".time()."-".$from.">\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP v".phpversion(); 
$msg_txt="";
$email_txt = $message; 
$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}\""; 
$email_txt .= $msg_txt; 
$email_message .= "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n\n" .
"--{$mime_boundary}\n" .
"Content-Type:text/html; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n" .
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n" .
$email_txt . "\n\n"; 

if ($attachments !== false)
{
for($i=0; $i < count($attachments); $i++)
{
if (is_file($attachments[$i]))
{
$fileatt = $attachments[$i];
$fileatt_type = "application/octet-stream";
$start= strrpos($attachments[$i], '/') == -1 ? strrpos($attachments[$i], '//') : strrpos($attachments[$i], '/')+1;
$fileatt_name = substr($attachments[$i], $start, strlen($attachments[$i])); 
$file = fopen($fileatt,'rb');
$data = fread($file,filesize($fileatt));
fclose($file); 
$data = chunk_split(base64_encode($data)); 
$email_message .= "--{$mime_boundary}\n" .
                        "Content-Type: {$fileatt_type};" .
                        " name=\"{$fileatt_name}\"\n" .
                        "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n" .
                        "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"{$fileatt_name}\"\n\n" .
                        $data . "\n\n" ;
						 
}
}
} 
$email_message .= "--{$mime_boundary}--\n"; 
return mail($to, $subject, $email_message, $headers);
} 
?>

                                  
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2009-11-05 at 01:04:08ID24873754
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Answers

 

by: logudotcomPosted on 2009-11-05 at 01:07:28ID: 25747739

Opps, you must upload the files to the server and then you have to attach to the email.

 

by: logudotcomPosted on 2009-11-05 at 01:08:51ID: 25747748

I suggest you to use this mailer class to attach files,

ref. http://phpmailer.worxware.com/index.php?pg=examples

 

by: Rev22onlyPosted on 2009-11-05 at 01:34:41ID: 25747860

The above code is working fine but the path to the file is not posted ..
any inputs on that...

 

by: logudotcomPosted on 2009-11-05 at 02:03:28ID: 25747985

Ok, first you need to move the file to the server, for that you need ref.
http://www.w3schools.com/PHP/php_file_upload.asp

 

by: logudotcomPosted on 2009-11-05 at 02:04:15ID: 25747988

You cannot read the files using,
$attachments[]=$_POST['coverletter']; // absolute file path here
$attachments[]=$_POST['resume'];

you suppose to use $_FILE and get the file is uploaded to the server and then, you can attach the path.

 

by: Rev22onlyPosted on 2009-11-05 at 02:18:49ID: 25748053

Thanks for your inputs..

I have now the updated code that uses  $_FILE and uploads file to send attachment .. this code is working fine with single attachment.. but when I try to read 2 files using 2 $_FILE  it does not work..

<?php 
$to      = "xxx@gmail.com";
$from    = "xxx@gmail.com";
$subject = "Resume Details";
$mail_body = "message body";
 $fileatt      = $_FILES['resume']['tmp_name'];
$fileatt_type = $_FILES['resume']['type'];
$fileatt_name = $_FILES['resume']['name']; 

//echo $fileatt;
//echo "<br>".$fileatt_type;
//echo "<br>".$fileatt_name; 

$headers = "From: $from"; 
if (is_uploaded_file($fileatt)) {
  // Read the file to be attached ('rb' = read binary)
  $file = fopen($fileatt,'rb');
  $data = fread($file,filesize($fileatt));
   
        $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}\"";
    
        $mail_body = "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n\n" . 
                "--{$mime_boundary}\n" . 
                "Content-Type: text/html; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n" . 
                "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n" . 
                $mail_body . "\n\n";
    
        $data = chunk_split( base64_encode( $data ) );
                 
        $mail_body .= "--{$mime_boundary}\n" . 
                 "Content-Type: {$fileatt_type};\n" . 
                 " name=\"{$fileatt_name}\"\n" . 
                 "Content-Disposition: <strong class=\"highlight\">attachment</strong>;\n" . 
                 " filename=\"{$fileatt_name}\"\n" . 
                 "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n\n" . 
                 $data . "\n\n" . 
                 "--{$mime_boundary}--\n"; 
				 
				 $ok = @mail($to, $subject, $mail_body, $headers);
fclose($file);
} 
?>

                                              
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by: gawaiPosted on 2009-11-05 at 02:21:42ID: 25748065

the easy way is to upload them to server and in the email messege just place links to both files

 

by: Rev22onlyPosted on 2009-11-05 at 09:41:39ID: 25751910

can anyone help me with the above code.. what can I do for the above code to work with 2 attachments. It works for 1 attachment.

thanks..

 

by: gawaiPosted on 2009-11-05 at 09:57:11ID: 25752057

first you need to upload 2 files in your server say your saved them like. ...
webroot/userfiles/file1.pdf
webroot/userfiles/file2.pdf

soon after the upload is completed, send the email and just place links in your email body

email body :
<a href=http://www.yourserver.com/userfiles/file1.pdf>Cover Letter</a>

<a href=http://www.yourserver.com/userfiles/file2.pdf>CV</a>

 

by: Rev22onlyPosted on 2009-11-06 at 00:33:04ID: 25757538

Thanks for your comments gawai..
The following is the code for my problem its working fine with 2 attachments that I need..

$to="me@gmail.com";
   $subject="E-mail with attachment";
 
   // get the sender's name and email address
   // we'll just plug them a variable to be used later
   $from = "from@gmail.com";
 
   // generate a random string to be used as the boundary marker
   $mime_boundary="==Multipart_Boundary_x".md5(mt_rand())."x";
 
   // now we'll build the message headers
   $headers = "From: $from\r\n" .
   "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n" .
      "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;\r\n" .
      " boundary=\"{$mime_boundary}\"";
 
   // here, we'll start the message body.
   // this is the text that will be displayed
   // in the e-mail
   $message="This is an example";
 
   // next, we'll build the invisible portion of the message body
   // note that we insert two dashes in front of the MIME boundary 
   // when we use it
   $message = "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n\n" .
      "--{$mime_boundary}\n" .
      "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n" .
      "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n" .
   $message . "\n\n";
 
   // now we'll process our uploaded files
   foreach($_FILES as $userfile){
      // store the file information to variables for easier access
      $tmp_name = $userfile['tmp_name'];
      $type = $userfile['type'];
      $name = $userfile['name'];
      $size = $userfile['size'];
 
      // if the upload succeded, the file will exist
      if (file_exists($tmp_name)){
 
         // check to make sure that it is an uploaded file and not a system file
         if(is_uploaded_file($tmp_name)){
 	
            // open the file for a binary read
            $file = fopen($tmp_name,'rb');
 	
            // read the file content into a variable
            $data = fread($file,filesize($tmp_name));
 
            // close the file
            fclose($file);
 	
            // now we encode it and split it into acceptable length lines
            $data = chunk_split(base64_encode($data));
         }
 	
         // now we'll insert a boundary to indicate we're starting the attachment
         // we have to specify the content type, file name, and disposition as
         // an attachment, then add the file content.
         // NOTE: we don't set another boundary to indicate that the end of the 
         // file has been reached here. we only want one boundary between each file
         // we'll add the final one after the loop finishes.
         $message .= "--{$mime_boundary}\n" .
            "Content-Type: {$type};\n" .
            " name=\"{$name}\"\n" .
            "Content-Disposition: attachment;\n" .
            " filename=\"{$fileatt_name}\"\n" .
            "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n\n" .
         $data . "\n\n";
      }
   }
   // here's our closing mime boundary that indicates the last of the message
   $message.="--{$mime_boundary}--\n";
   // now we just send the message
   if (@mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers))
      echo "Message Sent";
   else
      echo "Failed to send";

                                              
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by: gawaiPosted on 2009-11-10 at 02:37:21ID: 25784050

sure u can delete and refund as you solved it yourself and experts did not help you at all.
have a great day ahead.

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