PHP attachment sending

[SOT-wolf]

No one seemed to know what i was talking about

http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10220105

But all i want to know is what code do i have to use to be able to browse for a file (which i can do) and then press send so that it attaches what ever file is chosen and it gets sent to my e-mail address...

If anyone could help then i would be most pleased as i need this asap...

[sarahk]

check out the attachment I've added to this thread

http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10219723

and here's some code to do the directory listing.

  $handle=opendir('uploads/');

$distNames = ""; 
while (false!==($file = readdir($handle))) 
{  

  if ($file != "." && $file != "..") 
  { 
    //$filename = str_replace("_"," ",$file); 
	$filename = $file;

$distNames .= "<tr><td align='center'><input type='radio' value='$filename' name='distFile'></td>";
$distNames .= "<td>$filename</td></tr>\n"; 
  }     

} 
closedir($handle); 
echo "<table>$distnames</table><input type='submit'>";

[SOT-wolf]

i tried taking what you gave me and even downloaded the sendfile demo that you said you attached in another thread, but i'm not wanting to send a file to myself..... That php thing was to select something you wanted to download and then it would send it to your e-mail address

This is what i want... http://www.opflash.org/wolf/submit.htm

I want this to be able to be a area of a site where any reader can send a jpg formatted picture (could be any file format really, just an example) to my e-mail address including the browsers comments.

Now i can do the comments and everything easy peasy, just the got to have the php script handle uploading from a users hd.

Everything sends perfectly fine, the comments are working, but when i get the e-mail all i have is

File: thefilename

of the file they sent me, not as an attachment.

[sarahk]

Ok, I've looked at your page.

What you want is to upload the file from the user's PC to your website and then email to you.

My code takes a file on the webhost and emails to an email address given by the user.

So... you need to get the upload happening. Simple examples abound. Then email it.

If you are using my attachment code then it should work ok. There is a strict order with html emails as to the order which they are built, so follow my example exactly. Don't reorder!

here's my code and I'll attach the class that I got from somewhere...

	    include("cl_upload.php");
	    $thisName = $_FILES['image']['name'];
	   	$u = new MyUpload( $thisName, $_FILES['image']['tmp_name'], $_FILES['image']['size'], "thisname" );
	  	$u->cls_verbal = 1;
	   	$feedback = $u->upload( "uploads/" );

[SOT-wolf]

hey thanks mate, i tried the script out, and i applied it to my html doc.
I uploaded the file and i have some things to say and ask..

1. when i was using the script i could see that the file was slowly getting uploaded as it was taking a while for the blue bar to complete.

2. Now i created a folder called uploads and i thought that if i added "/uploads" to the file upload dir then it would send it there. But it didn't.

Carrying on reading through the script i saw that i needed a tmp folder, so i created one also. But the thing is the file didn't go there either.
Now i have an account on a friends server so i don't know if its sent it to another tmp folder or not.

I'm really knew at php so i'm having many difficulties and i'm sorry i putting you through all this pressure, but i know you were there once too lol...

[SOT-wolf]

i know this is the first step so i wont worry about the e-mailing right now as there was nothing in the script for it to direct it to an e-mail address as what i saw.

[sarahk]

aaah, check that the rights to your upload folder (I called mine "uploads") has 777 rights. You can do this using your ftp tool.

Also it won't overwrite an existing file which has been copied in using ftp. All to do with username etc. Don't worry too much about it, and dont fight it for hours like I did... 🙂

[SOT-wolf]

duhhh, should of thought of that before lol, but it doesn't want to show i'm affraid 🙁

i have 777 on the folder and it still seems to upload but its not going to the folder. 🙁

[sarahk]

my directory structure is

htdocs - v2 - uploads

my script lives in v2

so when I tell $feedback = $u->upload( "uploads/" ); it's looking in my v2 directory for a directory call uploads. It must have the / on the end too.

I had no problem with that working. Have you checked out http://www.php.net.

I'm off for now, will check in later tonight, good luck.

[SOT-wolf]

thanks for all of your help but i have done what you have told me to do and it just doesn't work 🙁 i guess i'm stuck big time......

[sarahk]

try posting some code for review. I can get it working on my site and then post the patched up version