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Dennis Planner
2,914 PointsPHPMailer contact form - Adding Attachments doesn't work
Hello all,
I'm making grounds thanks to Treehouse, on a contact form I'm working on for a personal site.
I'm using the PHPMailer library and I'd like to have the ability to attach a file on the form.
The actual input HTML element nested in the form element is:
<input type ="file" name='attachment' id='uploaded_file'>
From my readings, I found out that once I've press the submit button, the file should now be stored in $_FILES using the Post method. Fair enough, so I'd assume that the actually file can be returned using $_FILES['uploaded_file'] that uses the id of the input element
There is a method called addAttachment that in its simplest form, accepts the path name as the argument.
I pass this method through to the PHPMailer() instance of the object, $mail as so:
$mail->addAttachment($_FILES['uploaded_file']);
...After the $mail instantiation, and before the send() function.
The email sends, but I don't receive any attachment to the mail. Strange, one any ideas that can help me?
Here is the code
<?php
/*
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* To change this template file, choose Tools | Templates
* and open the template in the editor.
*/
// CLASS DECLARATIONS
require_once("includes/PHPMailer/class.phpmailer.php");
require_once('/includes/PHPMailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php');
$mail = new PHPMailer();
// VARIABLE DECLARATIONS
$errName = '';
$errEmail = '';
$errMessage = '';
$error = false;
if ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST") {
$name = trim($_POST["name"]); //trim destroys whitespaces like "Tab" or "Spacebar"
$email = trim($_POST["email"]);
$message = trim($_POST["message"]);
// Attack #1 preventor - Spam Honeypot
if ($_POST["address"] != "") {
echo "SPAM HONEYPOT";
exit;
}
// Attack #2 preventor - Email header injection hack preventor
foreach($_POST as $value) {
if(stripos($value, 'Content-Type:') !== FALSE) {
echo "There was a problem with the information you entered.";
exit;
}
}
// Check if name has been entered
if ($name == "") {
$errName = 'Sorry, you have not entered a name, please try again.';
}
// Check if message has been entered
if ($message == "") {
$errMessage = 'Sorry, you have not typed a message.';
}
// Check if email is valid
if (!$mail->validateAddress($email)) {
$errEmail = 'Sorry, please enter a valid email address.';
}
// Flag error messages if any tests fail
if ($errName || $errMessage || $errEmail) {
$error = true; // Boolean to flag validating error messages in the HTML
}
else {
// EMAIL BODY IFF FORM VALIDATION IS SUCESSFULL!
$email_body = "";
$email_body = $email_body. "Name: " . $name . "<br>";
$email_body = $email_body. "Email: " . $email . "<br>";
$email_body = $email_body. "Message: " . $message;
date_default_timezone_set('Etc/UTC');
//Tell PHPMailer to use SMTP
$mail->isSMTP();
//Enable SMTP debugging
// 0 = off (for production use)
// 1 = client messages
// 2 = client and server messages
$mail->SMTPDebug = 2;
//Ask for HTML-friendly debug output
$mail->Debugoutput = 'html';
//Set the hostname of the mail server
$mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';
//Set the SMTP port number - 587 for authenticated TLS, a.k.a. RFC4409 SMTP submission
$mail->Port = 587;
//Set the encryption system to use - ssl (deprecated) or tls
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';
//Whether to use SMTP authentication
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
//Username to use for SMTP authentication - use full email address for gmail
$mail->Username = "#############################";
//Password to use for SMTP authentication
$mail->Password = "###################";
//Set who the message is to be sent from
$mail->setFrom($email, $name);
//Set who the message is to be sent to
$mail->addAddress('perpetualprinting@gmail.com', 'John Doe');
//Set the subject line
$mail->Subject = 'PHPMailer GMail SMTP test';
//Add attachment
$mail->addAttachment($_FILES['uploaded_file']);
// if (isset($_FILES['uploaded_file']) &&
// $_FILES['uploaded_file']['error'] == UPLOAD_ERR_OK) {
// $mail->addAddress($_FILES['uploaded_file']['tmp_name'],
// $_FILES['uploaded_file']['name']);
// }
//Read an HTML message body from an external file, convert referenced images to embedded,
//convert HTML into a basic plain-text alternative body
$mail->msgHTML($email_body);
//send the message, check for errors
if (!$mail->send()) {
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
}
else {
}
header("Location: contact.php?status=thanks");
exit;
}
}
?>
And the HTML
<html>
<head>
<?php include('includes/bootstrap.php'); ?>
<title>Imperial 3D | Contact Us</title>
<!-- HTML5 shim and Respond.js for IE8 support of HTML5 elements and media queries -->
<!-- WARNING: Respond.js doesn't work if you view the page via file:// -->
<!--[if lt IE 9]>
<script src="https://oss.maxcdn.com/html5shiv/3.7.2/html5shiv.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://oss.maxcdn.com/respond/1.4.2/respond.min.js"></script>
<![endif]-->
</head>
<body>
<div class = 'container'>
<!--navbar-->
<nav class="navbar navbar-default navbar-inverse">
<?php include('includes/navbar.php'); ?>
</nav>
<!--body-->
<div class = "wrapper">
<section class ="bulk"
<div class ="row">
<?php if(isset($_GET["status"]) == "thanks") { ?>
<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>
<p class = "text-center"> Thanks for the email! I'll be in touch shortly </p>
<?php } else { ?>
<h1 class = "text-center">
Contact
</h1>
<p class = "text-center">
We'd love to hear from you! Complete the form to contact me.
</p>
<!-- form stuff -->
<div class ="row">
<div class ='col-md-6'>
<form method ="post" action ="contact.php" enctype='multipart/form-data'>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="name">Name</label>
<input type ="text" class="form-control" name="name" id ="name" placeholder="Enter name" value="<?php if (!empty($_POST['name'])) {echo $_POST['name'];} ?>">
<?php
if ($error) {
echo "<p class='text-danger'>$errName</p>";
}
else {
echo "<br>";
}
?>
</div>
<!--email-->
<div class="form-group">
<label for="email">Email</label>
<input type ="text" class="form-control" name="email" id ="email" placeholder="Enter email" value="<?php if (!empty($_POST['email'])) {echo $_POST['email'];} ?>">
<?php
if ($error) {
echo "<p class='text-danger'>$errEmail</p>";
}
else {
echo "<br>";
}
?>
</div>
<!--msg-->
<div class="form-group">
<label for="message">Message</label>
<textarea name ="message" class="form-control" id ="message" placeholder="Enter message" rows = "10" ></textarea>
<?php
if ($error) {
echo "<p class='text-danger'>$errMessage</p>";
}
else {
echo "<br>";
}
?>
</div>
<!--attachments-->
<div class="form-group">
<label for="attachment" >Attachment</label>
<input type ="file" name='attachment' id='uploaded_file'>
</div>
<!--Hpam Sponypot -->
<div class="form-group" style="visibility: hidden">
<label for="address">Address</label>
<input type ="text" name="address" id ="address">
<p> Humans, do not fill out this form! </p>
</div>
<!--attachments-->
<button type="submit" value="Send" class="btn btn-default">Submit</button>
</form>
</div>
<!-- contact details -->
<div class ='col-md-6'>
<h3> Contact Details </h3>
<ul class = "contact-info">
<li>Dennis.</li>
<li class ="phone"><span class="glyphicon glyphicon-earphone"></span><span><?php echo" Tel: " ?></span><a href ="tel:04040404">04040404</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<?php } ?>
</section>
<div class ="pusher">
<?php include('includes/footer.php'); ?>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Cheers :) Dennis
2 Answers
Chris Shaw
26,676 PointsHi Dennis,
You have a simple typo which is your code is referencing uploaded_file which isn't the name for your upload field, instead this should be attachment as that's the value in your name attribute.
$mail->addAttachment($_FILES['attachment']);
Happy coding!
Dennis Planner
2,914 PointsCheers Chris! You're absolutely right.