Send File Attachment from Form Using phpMailer and

Question

I have a form on example.com/contact-us.php that looks like this (simplified):

<form method="post" action="process.php" enctype="multipart/form-data">
  <input type="file" name="uploaded_file" id="uploaded_file" />
  <input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="10000000" />
</form>

In my process.php file, I have the following code utilizing PHPMailer() to send an email:

require("phpmailer.php");

$mail = new PHPMailer();

$mail->From     = [e-mail];
$mail->FromName = My name;
$mail->AddAddress([e-mail],"John Doe");

$mail->WordWrap = 50;
$mail->IsHTML(true);

$mail->Subject  =  "Contact Form Submitted";
$mail->Body     =  "This is the body of the message.";

The email sends the body correctly, but without the Attachment of uploaded_file.

MY QUESTION

I need the file uploaded_file from the form to be attached to the email, and sent. I do NOT care about saving the file after the process.php script sends it in an email.

I understand that I need to add AddAttachment(); somewhere (I'm assuming under the Body line) for the attachment to be sent. But...

1. What do I put at the top of the process.php file to pull in the file uploaded_file? Like something using $_FILES['uploaded_file'] to pull in the file from the contact-us.php page?
2. What goes inside of AddAttachment(); for the file to be attached and sent along with the email and where does this code need to go?

Please help and provide code!Thanks!

Answer 1

This code help me in Attachment sending....

$mail->AddAttachment($_FILES['file']['tmp_name'], $_FILES['file']['name']);

Replace your AddAttachment(...) Code with above code

Answer 2

Try:

if (isset($_FILES['uploaded_file']) &&
    $_FILES['uploaded_file']['error'] == UPLOAD_ERR_OK) {
    $mail->AddAttachment($_FILES['uploaded_file']['tmp_name'],
                         $_FILES['uploaded_file']['name']);
}

Basic example can also be found here.

The function definition for AddAttachment is:

public function AddAttachment($path,
                              $name = '',
                              $encoding = 'base64',
                              $type = 'application/octet-stream')

Answer 3

You'd use $_FILES['uploaded_file']['tmp_name'], which is the path where PHP stored the uploaded file (it's a temporary file, removed automatically by PHP when the script ends, unless you've moved/copied it elsewhere).

Assuming your client-side form and server-side upload settings are correct, there's nothing you have to do to "pull in" the upload. It'll just magically be available in that tmp_name path.

Note that you WILL have to validate that the upload actually succeeded, e.g.

if ($_FILES['uploaded_file']['error'] === UPLOAD_ERR_OK) {
    ... attach file to email ...
}

Otherwise you may try to do an attachment with a damaged/partial/non-existent file.

Answer 4

In my own case, i was using serialize() on the form, Hence the files were not being sent to php. If you are using jquery, use FormData(). For example

<form id='form'>
<input type='file' name='file' />
<input type='submit' />
</form>

Using jquery,

$('#form').submit(function (e) {
e.preventDefault();
var formData = new FormData(this); // grab all form contents including files
//you can then use formData and pass to ajax

});

Answer 5

File could not be Attached from client PC (upload)

In the HTML form I have not added following line, so no attachment was going:

enctype="multipart/form-data"

After adding above line in form (as below), the attachment went perfect.

<form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="form_phpm_mailer.php"  enctype="multipart/form-data">

Answer 6

Use this code for sending attachment with upload file option using html form in phpmailer

 <form method="post" action="" enctype="multipart/form-data">


                    <input type="text" name="name" placeholder="Your Name *">
                    <input type="email" name="email" placeholder="Email *">
                    <textarea name="msg" placeholder="Your Message"></textarea>


                    <input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="30000" />
                    <input type="file" name="userfile"  />


                <input name="contact" type="submit" value="Submit Enquiry" />
   </form>


    <?php




        if(isset($_POST["contact"]))
        {

            /////File Upload

            // In PHP versions earlier than 4.1.0, $HTTP_POST_FILES should be used instead
            // of $_FILES.

            $uploaddir = 'uploads/';
            $uploadfile = $uploaddir . basename($_FILES['userfile']['name']);

            echo '<pre>';
            if (move_uploaded_file($_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'], $uploadfile)) {
                echo "File is valid, and was successfully uploaded.\n";
            } else {
                echo "Possible invalid file upload !\n";
            }

            echo 'Here is some more debugging info:';
            print_r($_FILES);

            print "</pre>";


            ////// Email


            require_once("class.phpmailer.php");
            require_once("class.smtp.php");



            $mail_body = array($_POST['name'], $_POST['email'] , $_POST['msg']);
            $new_body = "Name: " . $mail_body[0] . ", Email " . $mail_body[1] . " Description: " . $mail_body[2];



            $d=strtotime("today"); 

            $subj = 'New enquiry '. date("Y-m-d h:i:sa", $d);

            $mail = new PHPMailer(); // create a new object


            //$mail->IsSMTP(); // enable SMTP
            $mail->SMTPDebug = 1; // debugging: 1 = errors and messages, 2 = messages only ,false = Disable 
            $mail->Host = "mail.yourhost.com";
            $mail->Port = '465';
            $mail->SMTPAuth = true; // enable 
            $mail->SMTPSecure = true;
            $mail->IsHTML(true);
            $mail->Username = "[e-mail]"; //[e-mail]
            $mail->Password = "password";
            $mail->SetFrom("[e-mail]", "Your Website Name");
            $mail->Subject = $subj;
            $mail->Body    = $new_body;

            $mail->AddAttachment($uploadfile);

            $mail->AltBody = 'Upload';
            $mail->AddAddress("[e-mail]");
             if(!$mail->Send())
                {
                echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
                }
                else
                {

                echo '<p>       Success              </p> ';

                }

        }



?>

Use this link for reference.