Emailform with attachment

Pad · Joined: 04 Oct 2004 Posts: 30

I want to create a form which sends an email to an account. Creating this isnt the hard part, its trying to insert an attachment.

I created a form file with all needed attributes and so <input type="file" name="imgfile"> to upload an image.

My process form looks like this and works perfectly with only one problem. The image isnt attached, I only get to see its location an my PC.

[code:1]<?php

// get posted data into local variables
$EmailFrom = Trim($_POST[EmailFrom]);
$EmailTo = "emailadres";
$Subject = Trim($_POST[Subject]);
$Naam = Trim($_POST[Naam]);
$imgfile = Trim($_POST[imgfile]);

// validation
$validationOK=true;
if (Trim($EmailFrom)=="" OR Trim($_POST[Subject])=="" OR $Naam = Trim($_POST[Naam])=="" OR $imgfile = Trim($_POST[imgfile])=="") $validationOK=false;
if (!$validationOK) {
print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=error.php\">";
exit;
}

// prepare email body text
$Body = "";
$Body .= "$Naam ";
$Body .= "zou graag zijn evenement $Subject in de kijker plaatsen";
$Body .= "\n";
$Body .= "Hij geeft hiervoor $Prijs";
$Body .= "\n";
$Body .= "$imgfile";
$Body .= "\n";

// send email
$success = mail($EmailTo, $Subject, $Body, "From: <$EmailFrom>");

// redirect to success page
if ($success){
print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=succes.php\">";
}
else{
print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=error.php\">";
}
?>[/code:1]

Any idea´s?

I also tried with $_FILES but that just gave me the location on my server without the file
[code:1]$uploaddir = '/path/to/your/image/files/'; // remember the trailing slash!
$uploadfile = $uploaddir. $_FILES['imgfile'];
[/code:1]

lostboy · Joined: 02 May 2004 Posts: 6059 Location: toronto, canada

The email is sent from the serverl. Any file to be attached to the email needs to be on the server as well, so you need to upload the file, send the email and then delete the file, if you want to.