We value your feedback.
Take our survey and automatically be enter to win anyone of the following:
Yeti Cooler, Amazon eGift Card, and Movie eGift Card!
COURSE of the MONTH
13 days, 23 hours left to enrollBecome a Premium Member and unlock a new, free course in leading technologies each month.
Solved
Photos Attached to Email
Posted on 2004-08-20
I have been searching for a while now (possibly not hard enough) and can't seem to find what I'm looking for.
I would like to know how to allow users to attach images to an email on my contact page. This would be so that users could "Submit Photos" to me (the webmaster) so that I can post them on the website.
So, basically I know the HTML portion of it (or the basics of it)
<form name="photoSubmit" action="../scripts/photosu
Your Name: <input name="name" type="text" size="30"></input>
Your Email: <input name="email" type="text" size="30"></input>
Photo Title: <input name="ptitle" type="text" size="30"></input>
Photo Description: <textarea name="pdescrip" type="text" rows="20" size="50"></textarea>
Photo Copyright: <input name="copyright" type="text" onClick="value=''" value="This Photo is Copyright 2004 SOMEONE"></input>
<input type="Submit" name="Send" label="Submit the Photos"></input>
<input type="Reset" name="Reset" label="Reset the Form"></input>
</form>
Now, the PHP will be the regular mail script, with the normal stripping of slashes, and sending it to a pre-determined email address. The only part I don't get is creating the "Attachment:" input selection, and how to add the PHP to it to allow the submission of the image.
Any and all help would be appreciated.
~Brett
I would like to know how to allow users to attach images to an email on my contact page. This would be so that users could "Submit Photos" to me (the webmaster) so that I can post them on the website.
So, basically I know the HTML portion of it (or the basics of it)
<form name="photoSubmit" action="../scripts/photosu
Your Name: <input name="name" type="text" size="30"></input>
Your Email: <input name="email" type="text" size="30"></input>
Photo Title: <input name="ptitle" type="text" size="30"></input>
Photo Description: <textarea name="pdescrip" type="text" rows="20" size="50"></textarea>
Photo Copyright: <input name="copyright" type="text" onClick="value=''" value="This Photo is Copyright 2004 SOMEONE"></input>
<input type="Submit" name="Send" label="Submit the Photos"></input>
<input type="Reset" name="Reset" label="Reset the Form"></input>
</form>
Now, the PHP will be the regular mail script, with the normal stripping of slashes, and sending it to a pre-determined email address. The only part I don't get is creating the "Attachment:" input selection, and how to add the PHP to it to allow the submission of the image.
Any and all help would be appreciated.
~Brett
[X]
Welcome to Experts Exchange
Add your voice to the tech community where 5M+ people just like you are talking about what matters.
- Help others & share knowledge
- Earn cash & points
- Learn & ask questions
8 Comments
You need a special upload component to handle the file. I'm pretty sure there's one for PHP. Your server will also need to be able to handle uploads.
Any idea as to what some good ones are, and how/where i can check for the ability to handle uploads?
~Brett
~Brett
well, there are several steps.
First of all, you have to add a file field to the form
<input type="file" name="attachmentfile" />
then, to the <form> tag, you need to add enctype="multipart/form-da
<form name="photoSubmit" action="../scripts/photosu
then, you will have 2 ways.
Either you'll have to save the uploaded file somewhere (http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.php) and then just add <img src="someurl" /> to the mail, if you have it as text/html mail,
or the 2nd method, is creating a Multipart MIME e-mail, and attaching the file data in base64_encode() form to the body (http://www.theukwebdesigncompany.com/articles/php-file-attachments.php and http://www.zend.com/zend/spotlight/sendmimeemailpart1.php)
Hope this helps
First of all, you have to add a file field to the form
<input type="file" name="attachmentfile" />
then, to the <form> tag, you need to add enctype="multipart/form-da
<form name="photoSubmit" action="../scripts/photosu
then, you will have 2 ways.
Either you'll have to save the uploaded file somewhere (http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.php) and then just add <img src="someurl" /> to the mail, if you have it as text/html mail,
or the 2nd method, is creating a Multipart MIME e-mail, and attaching the file data in base64_encode() form to the body (http://www.theukwebdesigncompany.com/articles/php-file-attachments.php and http://www.zend.com/zend/spotlight/sendmimeemailpart1.php)
Hope this helps
Featured Post
WordPress is a very popular option for running your web site and can be used to get your content online quickly for the world to see. This guide will walk you through installing the WordPress server software and the initial setup process.
Question has a verified solution.
If you are experiencing a similar issue, please ask a related question
Building a website can seem like a daunting task to the uninitiated but it really only requires knowledge of two basic languages: HTML and CSS.
Originally, this post was published on Monitis Blog, you can check it
here
.
In business circles, we sometimes hear that today is the “age of the customer.” And so it is. Thanks to the enormous advances over the past few years in consumer techno…
In this tutorial viewers will learn how to style transparent/translucent elements using alpha transparency in CSS
Start with a normal styled element, such as a div.: Define its "background-color" property as "rgba (255, 255, 255, .5): The numbers in…
In this tutorial viewers will learn how to embed an audio file in a webpage using HTML5.
Ensure your DOCTYPE declaration is set to HTML5: : The declaration should display
(CODE)
HTML5 is supported by the most recent versions of all major browsers…
Suggested Courses
Course of the Month13 days, 23 hours left to enroll
800 members asked questions and received personalized solutions in the past 7 days.
Join the community of 500,000 technology professionals and ask your questions.