<UnResolved> I need help with attachments

the_manic_mouse

I have a form page that send info to another page which send the info to me. I barrowed the page format from another site, so don't mind the way it's formated. I plan to change the wording later, but back to the topic.

I can get the results page to send me the email but the file attachment does't work right. When I get the mail all the info is there but the attachment is not really there. The mail reader says that there is an attachment and the message body shows that there is supposed to be an attachment, and in Outlook you can choose to open and save the attachment, but there is nothing there.

I want to send the files that the user browses for as attachments

It's all in the files I have included in a zip file for you to look at.

Please help.

reidme

I looked through your scripts and found the attachment section:

$message .= "Content-Type: application/octet-stream;\r\n";
$message .= " name=\"{$_POST["attach"]}\"\r\n";
$message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable\r\n";
$message .= "Content-Disposition: attachment;\r\n";
$message .= " filename=\"{$_POST["attach"]}\"\r\n";
$message .= "\r\n";
$message .= $fileContent;
$message .= "\r\n";

The dynamic variable $fileContent is loaded into the attachment, but I can find no other reference to $fileContent defining the value of this variable. I'd guess that's why you are getting a blank attachment. Try:

$message .= "\r\n";
$message .= "This is a test file attachment."; //this is where it would have $fileContent.
$message .= "\r\n";

If this gives you an attachment with content then you know the problem is with the $fileContent variable.
Hope that helps.

the_manic_mouse

How would I define the $fileContent variable?

I'm rather new to PHP and I got the code from another site

"http://www.hollowearth.co.uk/tech/php/email_attachments.php" to be exact. and at that I had to do some patch work to make it work with my script.

reidme

You would define it in the same method as you are defining $message:

$fileContent = "Attachment Heading\n\n";
$fileContent .="This is an attachment...\n";
$fileContent .="With as much text as you like in it...\n";

What exactly is the attachment anyway?

the_manic_mouse

The attachment is supposed to be image, zip, pdf html, etc. files.

could you by any chance show how the code page is supposed to look?

I'm trying to load the attachment from the form page, using {$_POST["attach"]} to get it into the message.

And as I said I still new to PHP. I just cut and pasted what I have and changed a couple of words to make it work.

I don't even know what I'm doing or how it works.

So please help.