Send File Attachment from Form Using phpMailer and PHP

Question

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

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

This will work perfectly

    <form method='post' enctype="multipart/form-data">
    <input type='file' name='uploaded_file' id='uploaded_file' multiple='multiple' />
    <input type='submit' name='upload'/> 
    </form>

    <?php
           if(isset($_POST['upload']))
        {
             if (isset($_FILES['uploaded_file']) && $_FILES['uploaded_file']['error'] == UPLOAD_ERR_OK)
                {
                     if (array_key_exists('uploaded_file', $_FILES))
                        { 
                            $mail->Subject = "My Subject";
                            $mail->Body = 'This is the body';
                            $uploadfile = tempnam(sys_get_temp_dir(), sha1($_FILES['uploaded_file']['name']));
                        if (move_uploaded_file($_FILES['uploaded_file']['tmp_name'], $uploadfile))
                             $mail->addAttachment($uploadfile,$_FILES['uploaded_file']['name']); 
                            $mail->send();
                            echo 'Message has been sent';
                        }       
                else
                    echo "The file is not uploaded. please try again.";
                }
                else
                    echo "The file is not uploaded. please try again";
        }
    ?>

Answer 3

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 4

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 5

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 6

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

});