Attach File Through PHP Mail

Question

I am trying to get a custom contact form using PHP mail to have a user attach a photo, that then gets sent to the recipient outlined in the PHP mail code

Answer 1

That is not how attachment works. Using the mail() for attachments is a little more complex than that. You got to tell mail() which part should handle the file attachment and which part is responsible to display the email body by setting up a MIME Boundary. In other words, the code should be divided into 2 parts:

• A section to handle the message being sent in body
• A section to handle file uploading

A detailed tutorial is here

PHP EMAIL WITH ATTACHMENT

However, I would suggest you to use a very handy tool called PHPMailer to do the same task. It simplifies the process and lets the class handle all the legwork.

PHPMailer