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

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 = "admin@domain.net"; //from@domainname.com
            $mail->Password = "password";
            $mail->SetFrom("admin@domain.net", "Your Website Name");
            $mail->Subject = $subj;
            $mail->Body    = $new_body;

            $mail->AddAttachment($uploadfile);

            $mail->AltBody = 'Upload';
            $mail->AddAddress("recipient@domain.com");
             if(!$mail->Send())
                {
                echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
                }
                else
                {

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

                }

        }



?>

Use this link for reference.

Answer 2

Hey guys the code below worked perfectly fine for me. Just replace the setFrom and addAddress with your preference and that's it.

<?php
/**
 * PHPMailer simple file upload and send example.
 */
//Import the PHPMailer class into the global namespace
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception;
$msg = '';
if (array_key_exists('userfile', $_FILES)) {
    // First handle the upload
    // Don't trust provided filename - same goes for MIME types
    // See http://php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.php#114004 for more thorough upload validation
    $uploadfile = tempnam(sys_get_temp_dir(), hash('sha256', $_FILES['userfile']['name']));
    if (move_uploaded_file($_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'], $uploadfile)) 
    {
        // Upload handled successfully
        // Now create a message

        require 'vendor/autoload.php';
        $mail = new PHPMailer;
        $mail->setFrom('info@example.com', 'CV from Web site');
        $mail->addAddress('blabla@gmail.com', 'CV');
        $mail->Subject = 'PHPMailer file sender';
        $mail->Body = 'My message body';

        $filename = $_FILES["userfile"]["name"]; // add this line of code to auto pick the file name
        //$mail->addAttachment($uploadfile, 'My uploaded file'); use the one below instead

        $mail->addAttachment($uploadfile, $filename);
        if (!$mail->send()) 
        {
            $msg .= "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
        } 
        else 
        {
            $msg .= "Message sent!";
        }
    } 
        else 
        {
            $msg .= 'Failed to move file to ' . $uploadfile;
        }
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
    <title>PHPMailer Upload</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php if (empty($msg)) { ?>
    <form method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
        <input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="4194304" />
        <input name="userfile" type="file">
        <input type="submit" value="Send File">
    </form>

<?php } else {
    echo $msg;
} ?>
</body>
</html>