PHPMailer AddAttachment from Form

laneo2010

Hi All

I am using PHPMailer to send information from a web form on my company website. The form sends; name, subject, browse for file and message. The user will input these details and then hit send which will invoke phpmailer.inc.php and do all the sending and send a automated response to the sender. I've tested this without the attachment option and all is sending fine.

However when I add the AddAttachment and hit send I get this;
Mailer Error
Description:
Could not find file on filesystem

I don't want to upload this file to a database or anything like that, I just want it to attach to an email and send a copy to mailbox within our company which receives our students work.

I think the thing I'm confused about is that I'm not sure what to put in the argument of the AddAttachment; AddAttachment(string path <-What's supposed to go in here, what does it mean string path?). I thought it would be $_POST['name of button from web form'] so that it could get the file from the web form and then pass this to phpmailer.inc.php?

The files that will be being uploaded by our students could be .doc .docx .pdf .ppt .xls .zip.

Below is the Web form code and the form that interacts with this and feeds phpmailer.inc.php.

<form action="submitworkNew.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" name="form1" class="content" id="form1">
<label>
1. Your Name (please select)<br />
<select name="name3" id="name3">
<option>example@nothing.com</option>
</select>
</label>

<h6>
<label> </label>
<label>2. <span id="sprytextfield3">Subject<br />
<input type="text" name="subject" id="subject" />
</span><span><span class="textfieldRequiredMsg">A value is required.</span></span><br />
<br />
3. Browse for file<br />
<input type="file" name="file" id="file" />
<br />
</label>
</h6>
<h6>4. <span id="sprytextarea2">
<label>Message (optional)<br />
<textarea name="message2" id="message2" cols="30" rows="5"></textarea>
</label>
</span> <span id="sprytextarea1"><br />
</span></h6>
<p>
<input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="Submit" />
<input type="submit" name="reset" id="reset" value="Reset" />
</p>
</form>

submitworkNew.php

<?php

require_once 'phpmailer.inc.php';

//Send Email
$mail = new phpmailer();

$mail->From = $_POST['name3'];

$mail->Subject = $_POST['subject'];

$body = $_POST['message2'];

$mail->Body = $body;

$mail->AddAddress('something.com');

$mail->AddAttachment($_POST['file']/'file.doc'); <-- Confused about what to put here

//If OK send acknowledgement email to candidate
if(!$mail->Send()){

$toTwo = 'somehitng.com'; //$_POST['name3']
$subjectTwo = '';
$emailFrom = 'Acknowledgement of work submission DO-NOT-REPLY';
$messageTwo = '
Hi

Thank you for your work submission. Advisors endeavour to respond to your email within 10 working days, however you will be notified if there are any exceptions to this standard. If you have any other queries that need urgent attention please call the office on **.

Kind regards,

';
$mailheaders = 'PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE';

mail($toTwo, $emailFrom, $subjectTwo, $messageTwo, $mailheaders);

echo "<p>mail has been sent!</p>";
echo 'Mail sent successfully';

}

else
{

echo 'Mail sending failed';

}

Help would be MUCHLY appreciated, I'm sure its a quick fix, just need to put the right details for AddAttachment. I've been scratching my head for 2 days on this now and its really getting to me!

HELP!

Thanks for any help in advance,

James

NogDog

To grab the uploaded file, you should be using the $FILES array, in this case $FILES['file']['tmp_name']. (See http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.post-method.php for more info.)

laneo2010

Thanks NogDog that works perfectly now!

One other question though, when the file comes into the email address it is a unknown file with a strange name. Just wondering if there's a way for php mailer to work out what type of file it is e.g. .doc .zip etc so that when the file is delivered the recipient knows what program to open the attachment in rather than having to open the file in different programs to try and work out what the file type is.

Thanks
James

laneo2010

I know its becuase of the tmp_name but i would rather get the name of the file from a subject that is on my html mail form and for the file that comes in to have its extension (.doc .zip etc).

Derokorian

You can use $_FILES['file']['name'] to get the original document name as opposed to the temp file name.

laneo2010

hi, thanks for your reply. I tried this earlier and it didn't work. I just tried it again and it still doesn't work! I just get the error message;

Mailer Error
Description:
Could not find Word list.doc file on filesystem

Derokorian

because its not thats the original uploaded name. Try to move_uploaded_file http://php.net/manual/en/function.move-uploaded-file.php to put the file in its original name, and then attach it.

tech6

laneo2010;10980597 wrote:
Hi All

I am using PHPMailer to send information from a web form on my company website. The form sends; name, subject, browse for file and message. The user will input these details and then hit send which will invoke phpmailer.inc.php and do all the sending and send a automated response to the sender. I've tested this without the attachment option and all is sending fine.

However when I add the AddAttachment and hit send I get this;
Mailer Error
Description:
Could not find file on filesystem

I don't want to upload this file to a database or anything like that, I just want it to attach to an email and send a copy to mailbox within our company which receives our students work.

I think the thing I'm confused about is that I'm not sure what to put in the argument of the AddAttachment; AddAttachment(string path <-What's supposed to go in here, what does it mean string path?). I thought it would be $_POST['name of button from web form'] so that it could get the file from the web form and then pass this to phpmailer.inc.php?

The files that will be being uploaded by our students could be .doc .docx .pdf .ppt .xls .zip.

Below is the Web form code and the form that interacts with this and feeds phpmailer.inc.php.

<form action="submitworkNew.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" name="form1" class="content" id="form1">
<label>
1. Your Name (please select)<br />
<select name="name3" id="name3">
<option>example@nothing.com</option>
</select>
</label>

<h6>
<label> </label>
<label>2. <span id="sprytextfield3">Subject<br />
<input type="text" name="subject" id="subject" />
</span><span><span class="textfieldRequiredMsg">A value is required.</span></span><br />
<br />
3. Browse for file<br />
<input type="file" name="file" id="file" />
<br />
</label>
</h6>
<h6>4. <span id="sprytextarea2">
<label>Message (optional)<br />
<textarea name="message2" id="message2" cols="30" rows="5"></textarea>
</label>
</span> <span id="sprytextarea1"><br />
</span></h6>
<p>
<input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="Submit" />
<input type="submit" name="reset" id="reset" value="Reset" />
</p>
</form>

submitworkNew.php

<?php

require_once 'phpmailer.inc.php';

//Send Email
$mail = new phpmailer();

$mail->From = $_POST['name3'];

$mail->Subject = $_POST['subject'];

$body = $_POST['message2'];

$mail->Body = $body;

$mail->AddAddress('something.com');

$mail->AddAttachment($_POST['file']/'file.doc'); <-- Confused about what to put here

//If OK send acknowledgement email to candidate
if(!$mail->Send()){

$toTwo = 'somehitng.com'; //$_POST['name3']
$subjectTwo = '';
$emailFrom = 'Acknowledgement of work submission DO-NOT-REPLY';
$messageTwo = '
Hi

Thank you for your work submission. Advisors endeavour to respond to your email within 10 working days, however you will be notified if there are any exceptions to this standard. If you have any other queries that need urgent attention please call the office on **.

Kind regards,

';
$mailheaders = 'PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE';

mail($toTwo, $emailFrom, $subjectTwo, $messageTwo, $mailheaders);

echo "<p>mail has been sent!</p>";
echo 'Mail sent successfully';

}

else
{

echo 'Mail sending failed';

}

?>

Help would be MUCHLY appreciated, I'm sure its a quick fix, just need to put the right details for AddAttachment. I've been scratching my head for 2 days on this now and its really getting to me!

HELP!

Thanks for any help in advance,

James

Hi, I came across today and found this thread. I have the exactly same problem as you. But even tough I follow through the link. I only able to attachment the "attachment file name", instead of the actual file. Would you still available to share how you solved it with me? Thanks in advance!

Tim

johanafm

Filename on your filesystem: shopping_list.txt
Filename (tmp_name) on server after upload: 0a23swd

Solution
If you want to do something with the file on the server, use tmp_name to access it.
If you want to tell the email recipient what the file was called originally, use the original name for this. You need to provide this information both in the filename attribute (of the content-disposition header) and the name attribute (of the content-type header) since different email clients do not all use the same information (some clients are right, others are wrong).