add attachment from folder in email form

[DAVIDJMORIN]

hey everyone im trying to accomplish something that i feel is easy. heres the setup

the files and folders

images/uploads
images/uploads/tree.jpg

images/download_tree.html

in the download_tree.html i would like to have one form line that a user inputs there email and a send button. after they hit send it shoots and email off with the tree.jpg attached automatically. or maybe even a radio button that user clicks that selects different content like tree.jpg, dog.jpg, cat.jpg and sends based on what is selected

how would i achieve this?

T'hanks everyone

[Joseph07]

A very simple way to do it is to use mail() function with headers sent. Take note of the examples given in the page.

Another way which I also recommend is that you use PHPMailer Class. There is example and tutorial shown on the webpage on how you can send Email with attachment etc.

[DAVIDJMORIN]

ive tried the php mailer installed but cannot figure it out on how to get it to work. any other suggestions

[Joseph07]

Maybe you can tell us what problem are you facing, then we can help you to resolve your problem.

[DAVIDJMORIN]

My issue is that I do not know how to have it so that when a user inputs there email into my fo and hits send it sends them an email with an attachment in it such as file.mp3 etc. I know how to have an upload form but that's not what I'm looking for I want it tohave a specific file that I choose to be attached. Thanks for ur help

[DAVIDJMORIN]

how would i make the form to use this class.mailer.php file?

<?php
$to = '$email';
$from = '[e-mail]';
$subject = 'Here is the subject';

$boundary = 'Message-Boundary-' . date('YmdHis');

$headers = 'From: ' . $from . "\n";
$headers .= 'Reply-To: ' . $from . "\n";
$headers .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: Multipart/Mixed; boundary=' . $boundary . "\n\n";

$message = '--' . $boundary . "\n";
$message .= 'Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT' . "\n";
$message .= 'Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII' . "\n\n";

$message .= 'This is the body of the message in HTML.';

$attach = false;
if($attach){
  $arrfile = array('file1.jpg', 'file2.jpg');  //// do i change this to my files?
  foreach($arrfile as $f){
    $file = $f;
    $attach = fopen($file, 'rb');
    $data = fread($attach, filesize($file));
    fclose($attach);
    $data = chunk_split(base64_encode($data)); 

$ext = strtolower(substr(strrchr($file, '.'), 1));
switch($ext){
  case 'pdf': $type = 'application/pdf'; break;
  case 'exe': $type = 'application/octet-stream'; break;
  case 'zip': $type = 'application/zip'; break;
  case 'doc': $type = 'application/msword'; break;
  case 'xls': $type = 'application/vnd.ms-excel'; break;
  case 'ppt': $type = 'application/vnd.ms-powerpoint'; break;
  case 'gif': $type = 'image/gif'; break;
  case 'png': $type = 'image/png'; break;
  case 'jpe':
  case 'jpeg':
  case 'jpg': $type = 'image/jpg'; break;
  default: $type = 'application/force-download';
}

$message .= "\n\n" . '--' . $boundary . "\n";
$message .= 'Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64' . "\n";
$message .= 'Content-Type: ' . $type . '; name="' . $file . '";' . "\n";
$message .= 'Content-Disposition: inline; filename="' . $file . '"' . "\n\n" . $data;
  }
}

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
echo 'E-mail sent!';
?>

[Joseph07]

This is how you can use..

<?php
require("class.phpmailer.php");

$mail->From     = "[e-mail]";
$mail->FromName = "yourname";
$mail->Host     = "smtp.domain.com";
$mail->Mailer   = "smtp";

// Plain text body (for mail clients that cannot read HTML)
$text_body  = "Hello user", \n\n";
$text_body .= "Your message to the user.\n\n";
$text_body .= "Regards, \n";
$text_body .= "Administrator";

$mail->Subject = "Here is the subject";
$mail->Body    = $text_body;
$mail->AddAddress(useremail, username);
$mail->AddStringAttachment(attachmentfile, "attachfilename.ext");

if(!$mail->Send())
        echo "There has been a mail error sending to useremail"<br>";
?>

This is a example on how you can use the class.
Change the variables to the ones you want it to be.

For the files, look under this line and change the attachment file.
$mail->AddStringAttachment(attachmentfile, "attachfilename.ext");
Depending on your upload form code, you should change the "attachmentfile" to "$_FILES['pictures"]["name"] where pictures refer to the form name.

It is just a simple example. Look through and see if you understand.

[DAVIDJMORIN]

im not sure how i get a email form out of that.

this is what i have for the form

 <form method='post'  action='class.mailer.php'>
  Email: <input name='email' type='text' />
  <input type='submit'  />
  </form>

and using the class.mailer.php file that i previously listed but changed this

$to = $_POST['email'];  ///this is what im using.

that should pull the email from the form and send to that right? but its not working at all nor is it sending the attachements