Attaching files to E-Mail

[Anon]

Hello,
I have been working on the php script, and try to find the way how to attach files to email. Please send me an simple example that you have in php.
Thank you,
Tien

[Anon]

I've just been working on this myself and have got something working in the last 20 mins 🙂 just happened to see your message.

You need class that will handle MIME mail. Go here: http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net/

Follow the 2 min installation instructions (amend the include path in php.ini) and run the sample code, changing the recipient e-mail address to one under your control.

Good luck

Chris

[Anon]

Hi Chris,
is this is the example code?

if it is, what do i need to do? save it and run it? please help! thanx

require("class.phpmailer.php");

$mail = new phpmailer();

$mail->IsSMTP(); // send via SMTP
$mail->Host = "smtp1.site.com;smtp2.site.com"; // SMTP servers
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // turn on SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = "jswan"; // SMTP username
$mail->Password = "secret"; // SMTP password

$mail->From = "[e-mail]";
$mail->FromName = "Mailer";
$mail->AddAddress("[e-mail]","Josh Adams");
$mail->AddAddress("[e-mail]"); // optional name
$mail->AddReplyTo("[e-mail]","Information");

$mail->WordWrap = 50; // set word wrap
$mail->AddAttachment("/var/tmp/file.tar.gz"); // attachment
$mail->AddAttachment("/tmp/image.jpg", "new.jpg");
$mail->IsHTML(true); // send as HTML

$mail->Subject = "Here is the subject";
$mail->Body = "This is the <b>HTML body</b>";
$mail->AltBody = "This is the text-only body";

if(!$mail->Send())
{
echo "Message was not sent <p>";
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
exit;
}

echo "Message has been sent";

[Anon]

This is the example code but you must first download class.phpmailer.php and copy in to a subdirectory of PHP (I created one called PHP\includes and copied the class to it). You then need to edit php.ini adding this line: include_path = "c:\php\include"

The example code will then work but change this line so that it includes an e-mail address of yours $mail->AddAddress("[e-mail]","Josh Adams");

AND

$mail->AddAttachment("/var/tmp/file.tar.gz");

This line will also need changing to reflect a file you want to attach.

You'll access to an SMTP server obviously or the mail() function won't work - this function is used by the class.

This worked first time for me

[Anon]

Chris,
I am so confused.
attached is the code, please tell me what did i do wrong.
First i dowloaded the
class.phpmailer.php to my c:\temp\phpmailer

then copied the example code to my php script called php.ini

ini_set("include_path", "c:\temp\phpmailer");

require("class.phpmailer.php");

$mail = new phpmailer();

$mail->IsSMTP(); // send via SMTP
$mail->Host = "smtp1.site.com;smtp2.site.com"; // SMTP servers
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // turn on SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = "jswan"; // SMTP username
$mail->Password = "secret"; // SMTP password

$mail->From = "[e-mail]";
$mail->FromName = "Mailer";
$mail->AddAddress("[e-mail]","tien");
$mail->AddAddress("[e-mail]"); // optional name
$mail->AddReplyTo("[e-mail]","Information");

$mail->WordWrap = 50; // set word wrap
$mail->AddAttachment("/u02/teamnet/html/latin_america/bid_management/temp/"); // attachment
$mail->AddAttachment("/tmp/image.jpg", "new.jpg");
$mail->IsHTML(true); // send as HTML

$mail->Subject = "Here is the subject";
$mail->Body = "This is the <b>HTML body</b>";
$mail->AltBody = "This is the text-only body";

if(!$mail->Send())
{
echo "Message was not sent <p>";
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
exit;
}

echo "Message has been sent";

when I run it ....there is an error.
Basically, I created a form. there a botton(Browse) and user can pick and choose any files they want in there C , A drive ect...
and hit submit. Then, the administrator will receive the email from the user and also get that file via email which has the file attachment in the email. Please help me out here...Thanks so much Chris.