swiftmailer and email form with attachment - beginner
As always here is the place where I have learned a lot. And I have now a new things to learn:
I have a html form:
<tr><td width="16%">File attachment</td><td width="2%">:</td><td><input type="file" name="fileatt" /></td></tr>
and a mail.php:
$attachfile=$_POST["fileatt"];
and a correct swiftmailer code to send emails out;
I have googled and I found many examples how to send attachment with a file stored on the website but I would like to do it on the fly. So when you submit the button it would send it to peoples out rather than uploading the file.
// Create the Transport
$transport = Swift_SmtpTransport::newInstance('mail.server.co.uk', 25)
->setUsername('user')
->setPassword('pass')
;
// Create the Mailer using your created Transport
$mailer = Swift_Mailer::newInstance($transport);
// Create a message
$message = Swift_Message::newInstance($subject)
->setFrom(array('[email protected]' => 'name'))
->setBody($html, 'text/html')
;
// Add alternative parts with addPart()
$message->addPart(strip_tags($html), 'text/plain');
// Send the message
$result = $mailer->send($message);
could anyone help me how to do the on the fly file uploading, please? Thanks in advance!!!
Answer
There's a simple way to do this, here you go:
$message->attach(
Swift_Attachment::fromPath('/path/to/image.jpg')->setFilename('myfilename.jpg')
);
That's one way SwiftMail can do this, now just the /tmp file, and turn the above into the following:
Assuming: fileatt is the variable for the $_FILE, ['tmp_name'] actually is the tmp file that PHP creates from the form upload.
$message->attach(
Swift_Attachment::fromPath($_FILES['fileatt']['tmp_name'])->setFilename($_FILES['fileatt']['name'])
);
More information on SwiftMail Attachments can be found on this docs page
More information on $_FILES can be found here on w3schools, despite I don't like w3schools, this page is solid.