mail function

[Anon]

i was reading through the PHP manual and i was trying the mail function ..

i was just wondering .. how do i sent an attachment if i were to develop a web mail application something like hotmail or yahoo mail ??

[Anon]

It is a two step process... The first is an HTML File that has a browse button on it... The HTML looks something like the following.

<FORM ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data" ACTION="upload.php" METHOD="post">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="65536">
<INPUT NAME="UploadedFile" TYPE="file">
<INPUT TYPE="submit" VALUE="Upload"></FORM>

Then the PHP file to parse the upload looks like...

$filename = $UploadedFile_name;
$dest = "/home/..." . $filename;

copy($UploadedFile, $dest);

Of course you'll have to make an entry into your database so that you can actually keep track of the uploaded file, and make sure that the web user/group has permission to create files in the directory, and then you are all set. The orginial file is uploaded to /tmp.

-Steven