mail()

[thekidscareya]

i would i use php's mail() function to send a simple email with an attachemnt using the following stuff

$from = "[e-mail]";
$email = "[e-mail]";
$file = "http://www.mysite.com/file.zip";

Thanks.

[jami3]

Are you wanting us to create your code for you? Rtfm...
But still i know your wanting help what your tring to do yould be better if you just had it in a link in your e-mail message

use this code
<?php mail("[e-mail]", "My Subject", "My Message","From : [e-mail]"); ?>

Of course you could make this into a send mail page using text feilds and linking them ect. hope this helped

[thekidscareya]

how would i do it if the files are in a root directory and not accessible via http?

[planetsim]

Do a search on Mail Attachments Ive never done one before so I dont have any code but the file will be copied into the Email so it wont worry to much if its not accessible by HTTP.

[thekidscareya]

i tried googling that up already - there was stuff on it - but i got really lost - so i decided to come here because i figured some1 can explain it to me

[planetsim]

http://phpbuilder.com/board/search.php?s=&action=showresults&searchid=751099&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending

This tutorial
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/advanced-email-php/5

[thekidscareya]

i looked and that didnt help

these are the variables i want to use

$url = the url or path to file
$from = from who?
$to = to who?
$subject = subject of email

[hkucsis]

Why it didn't help?

I have scanned throught the link given by planetsim. The code there is quite complete. What problem do you have?

[thekidscareya]

which thread did you use specifically?

edit: i didnt see his edit

2nd edit:

how do i get this part to work

// Obtain file upload vars
$fileatt      = $_FILES['fileatt']['tmp_name'];
$fileatt_type = $_FILES['fileatt']['type'];
$fileatt_name = $_FILES['fileatt']['name'];

the file is not a post variable, but is the path or url is defined as $url

[Weedpacket]

Here's another link. It's to the top sticky in this forum.
http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10262518

[thekidscareya]

i looked at http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=&postid=10453974#post10453974

but that didnt tell me how to do it, it just explained how all the mail system is working.

[Weedpacket]

Originally posted by thekidscareya
i looked at http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=&postid=10453974#post10453974

but that didnt tell me how to do it, it just explained how all the mail system is working.

That page
Now, I'm not going to go into the full details of how to put together a multi-part, embedded-image HTML email, because there is already an article on this site about exactly that (I've given the reference above).