PHP mail attachment - sending an attachment with PHP

[nidajaved139]

Fantastic Job........

[azizjamali]

Wasting of my time

why you did not Attached the source file :(

[WikiPeoples]

great vid, great tutorial... got it workin on my system thanks to you.

[dbmrhi]

Question, is it possible to send an attachment to someone that can't be forwarded to someone else?

[optikalefxx]

@dbmrhi nope sorry

[MrJavap]

THankss man!! 

[sulitrwsky2]

God bless you man!

[Szegi87]

whats wrong with this code pastebin com/tddssFpA

[optikalefxx]

@Szegi87 you have some off characters on line 30, you have Mime instead of MIME.  And your $extension var is in all quotes, but thats PHP you have inside of there?

[Szegi87]

@optikalefxx ii sends email but filename is always something like that "/tmp/phpGst0z8" and the size is 0kb

[optikalefxx]

@Szegi87 Thats because you didn't move the uploaded file to your computer first. You need to use move_file_upload first, then use that location as the file

[Szegi87]

@optikalefxx is there another way? i mean just send email with attachment without putting it on my hosting server?

[optikalefxx]

@Szegi87 just do unlink($file) afterwards

[obesechicken13]

I'm getting the same error as Rygap, and I'm also a windows user. $replyto is never defined, and I changed it to $to even though I never saw this guy change it. Perhaps linux does treat things differently and you can't just use windows with a local email server with this code.

[obesechicken13]

@obesechicken13 Also, it'd be nice to actually put the source code up somewhere.

[RavanaMad]

Thank you so much for the code! I was looking for one that worked for sometime. Please make all the code available on your website or blog. It will save some people a lot of headaches and problems !

[RiseandShineNetwork]

If I try to use this script with .mp3 attachments it cuts the track length down to 7 seconds. Any idea why?

[marketerpaul]

after posting the form with the php script on one page I get this resolt on the attach.php page:

Warning: mail() [function.mail]: Bad parameters to mail() function, mail not sent. in /home/content/d/e/d/dedwards72­7/html/attach.php on line 140

fail. looking forward to your help. Thanks in advance.

[marketerpaul]

after posting the form with the php script on ane page I get this resolt on the attach.php page:

Warning: mail() [function.mail]: Bad parameters to mail() function, mail not sent. in /home/content/d/e/d/dedwards72­7/html/attach.php on line 140

fail. looking forward to your help. Thanks in advance.

[Rygap]

Under the comments //standard mail headers You use a variable named - $replyto - that is not declared anywhere. I imagine that it is just a typo, but I didnt see it corrected. Anyway, what would we use there instead $to or $from ?

For windows users try downloading PostCastServer it works pretty decent

[freetattle]

Can anyone help, The Code did not work? for me

[flattley]

Hey optikalefxx - thanks for this video. It works really well and is just what I wanted. I did have one question though: how can you get it to upload the file to a folder on the server once it has been sent (in case it needs to be redownloaded)? I have tried and can get it to up load with the if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES[­'attachment']['tmp_name'], $target)), but I can get it to send the mail. I can get it to send the mail but not upload to server. Do you have any suggestions on how to do this?

[DanMustoe]

i cannot thank you enough.

[jaradgrant1]

hey man, thanks for the video. it works great with gmail but i can't get it to work with hotmail or yahoo mail, could you please help me with this. any help would be greatly appreciated. THANKS IN ADVANCE

[maithilikoli]

hi,

I tried doing the exact same thing.

But when i receive and email, instead of an image or document I receive a garbage value.

I am really new to PHP ..please help!!!!!!!!

[molnarcsilla]

Thanks a lot for making and uploading this video. You helped me really a lot!

One question: how should I rewrite the codes if I want to have 2 or more files?

[optikalefxx]

@molnarcsilla just separate each file by the attachment boundry. i wanna do a video on this soon, so if you can't figure it out persay - keep an eye out for that video.

[molnarcsilla]

@optikalefxx can't wait :) thanks in advance

[molnarcsilla]

@optikalefxx I gave it up :) but no problem..

other question: how can I setup two e-mail addresses where the data to be sent?

is it possible to put the second email address to bcc? if yes, how? thanks in advance

[chaseranster85858]

Hey this script does not work on godaddy hosting. the mail function is not working in it. Can u check into this.

[chaseranster85858]

Hey this code does not work in a godaddy host. The mail function does not support godaddy . can u check into this

[optikalefxx]

@chaseranster85858 don't use godaddy - get a better host provider. OR, call godaddy because I know it does work with them. You probably aren't paying them enough.

[mrtentje]

Everything works fine, except for one thing. It doesn't show the message in het e-mail? Does anybody knowwhat the solution is?

I have the following: $header .= "--".$uid."\r\n"; $header .= "Content-type:text/plain; charset=UTF8\r\n"; $header .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\r\n\r\n"; $header .= $message."\r\n\r\n";

[optikalefxx]

@mrtentje double and tripple check you have exactly the right thing, look at the other video i did on this as a troubleshooting and tips.

[redos111]

Everything's working fine except gmail. E-mails sent this method aren't received by gmail.com . Any solutions will be appreciated :-)

[dansta93]

hey so I'm sry to say but I'm another person with a problem! lol

but any ways I'm constantly getting the please enter the right file type message even when I attach the right file type! I have checked my code and all seams right?!?! any ideas? thank u in advanced

-Daniel

[studdnature]

Hey, I know you must be really busy with all that you do. But I could really use your help with this form. I'm receiving the same error as "lingachannel" (2 months ago):

Warning: file_get_contents(...) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/...thank_you.php on line 205

The email sends and I receive an attachment, but it's always 0kb and can never be accessed. Would you be able to help me with this?

Thank you,

Danice

[RavanaMad]

@studdnature I was also receiving the attachments with 0kb and then I found out that I was missing the last line of the following block:

$header .= "--".$uid."\r\n";

$header .= "Content-Type: ".$file_type."; name=\"".$file_name."\"\r\n";

$header .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n";

$header .= "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"".$file_name."\"\r\­n\r\n";

$header .= $content."\r\n\r\n";

[Unforgiv3nii]

Please, if anybody can help me.... my mail is rotcivchen@hotmail.com

thanks a lot

[Unforgiv3nii]

hi, thanks a lot for the code. It work great..!!! but i have just one problem. The attachment arrives to my mailbox like text. Just text... if a send a PDF file, i got a TEXT like this "JVBERi0xLjMNJf////8NMSAwIG9ia­g08PA0vVGl0bGUgKP7/AGQAbwBjAHU­AbQBlAG4AdCkNL1Byb2R1Y2VyIChBb­Xl1bmkgUERGIENvbnZlcn".

[erf05]

Hi,

Great video. Having trouble with the code, the attachments are not being decode, and show as 0kb in the email. Sure it's something simple. Could I send you my code, or could you supply a working copy.

Thanks

Ed

[optikalefxx]

@erf05 double and tripple check that all your case and spelling is right.

then, if it still doesn't work. PM me.

[moreno0scar]

Could someone provide me with this txt or the php file? my email is Maria2k6@gmail.com

Thanks,

Maria

[pitambar]

Hi,

I am getting a syntax error on this particular code:

$content = chunk_split(base64_encode(file­_get_contents($file)));

I really dont know why....Could you please help me out.

Because the error which I get is Syntax Error: Unexpected T_Variable

[Unforgiv3nii]

@pitambar

check this good code lines:

//we receive the temporal name of the file

$temp_name = $_FILES['attachment']['tmp_nam­e'];

$file = $temp_name;

$content = chunk_split(base64_encode(file­_get_contents($file)));

[kristijanmne]

Thanks for this very useful video tutorial! It's explained in a very simple way so all my compliments to that!

[kristijanmne]

Now, I had a little bit a problems with some parts of the code because I tried to accommodate some part of it to suite my needs and to see how it works.

I noticed 2 things:

- If I use (') - as a quotation marks inside of (") it will nor work. It only works with (\"). Usually in PHP when I work with HTML it does not matter.

- In some parts of the code it is OBLIGATORY to put double new lines/paragraphs like this: "\r\n\r\n". Otherwise it will not work again.

[kristijanmne]

@kristijanmne I though that it should be useful also to put this to on comments even if I only can guess why is it happening.

Another thing that I wanted to ask is this:

"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit" - it is ok to put it for "Content-type: text/html" and is there any thing that I or others should know about this when I send mails in "charset=utf-8"?

Beside this, it works like a charm for me!

Greetings from Montenegro (EU)! :)

[lingachannel]

Thank you for this clear example.

I did exactly as you done, but am getting an empty file (0 kb size). I saw also your second video with the error example, i checked every letter in my file but find nothing.

Am getting this error:

Warning: file_get_contents() [function.file-get-contents]: Filename cannot be empty in /home/.................. /sendfile.php on line 30

success

Thank you

Yosef

[optikalefxx]

@lingachannel Your filename is not. Send me a pm with your code

[lingachannel]

@optikalefxx

Thank you for your quick replay

Look to the txt file please: (url)

tranem.linga.org/Temp/sendmail­.txt

Thanks a lot

Yosef

[lingachannel]

@optikalefxx I found the problem

my mistake was here:

$temp_name = $_FILES['attachment']['temp_na­me'];

it should be:

$temp_name = $_FILES['attachment']['tmp_nam­e'];

Thank you

[qwertzpoi]

How should I modify the code when I want to be able to send the email either with attachment or without. Because when I try without it obviously writes me No attachement.

[qwertzpoi]

@qwertzpoi SOLVED

[optikalefxx]

@qwertzpoi you need to first get rid of the 'if else' check for the file being posted. The !emtpy($_FILES['attachment']['­name'] bit

and then you need to kill the attachment "part" basically the code underneath of the comment // file attachment. Cuz with no attachment you don't want to send those headers.

[qwertzpoi]

Really good video it was exactly what I was looking for but I got parse error on this line

$header .= "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"",.$file_name."\"\r­\n\r\n";

can you please look at it? thanks

[optikalefxx]

@qwertzpoi You've got a random comma it looks like

[qwertzpoi]

@optikalefxx  Thanks I am stupid, I wondered what the parse error could be. I suspected the quotes. Anyway thanks for the awesome piece of code.

[latlov]

Thanks a lot! you are the man!

What if i needed to send more than two attachments? how would i change the code?

[latlov]

Thanks a lot! you are the man!

What if i needed to send more than two attachments? how would i change the code?

[stonheneg79]

Thanks a lot! After wathcing your movie and lots of swearing, I finally made it and actually started to understand what I was doing.

Tip for attachments: I found out that my Ubuntu Server limited my file attachment size to 2 MB. You have to edit the php.ini file and edit the line "upload_max_filesize =2MB"

[optikalefxx]

@stonheneg79 good point, i hope everyone reads this and notes that they might need to make this change.

[007chiranth]

am having trouble with this code.... the attachment is not showing what type of file it is...

[optikalefxx]

@007chiranth Make sure you spelled your content types correctly

[asy1mpo]

Excellent video!!!

[mrgarrett2000]

How can I get copy of this code in text format

[optikalefxx]

@mrgarrett2000 as soon as square bracket.com is ready all the sources will be up

[ransombot]

@optikalefxx ETA? (from a weekly watcher)

[optikalefxx]

@ransombot ask my designer lol. After this tuesday serious development begins. Say 1 month before you see something up there.

[raphagcwill]

Man, thats was amazing. I need some help to finally make my php work. Would you be willing to have a look at it and then we can talk about how much you would charge?

[optikalefxx]

@raphagcwill sure thing, send me a PM.

[snacktreat]

I am getting a corrupt attachment. Any ideas?

[optikalefxx]

@snacktreat Did you watch the trouble shooting video? If so you cam send me your code and I'll see what's up

[optikalefxx]

So to you guys that are having issues check the following:

- You are not using windows, seriously

- its $_POST not $POST

- text/plain not txt/plain

- Make sure you punctuation matches mine

- PHP variables start with a $

[Sassci]

What am I doing wrong? I cannot get this script to work for me. I have entered the necessary info into the spaces provided yet I cannot get the form to work. Any suggestions?

[optikalefxx]

@Sassci send me your code

[asorsuehtam]

There is a easy way to get the extension:

$filename = "test.doc";

$ext = end(explode(".",$filename));

echo $ext; // doc

[optikalefxx]

Brilliant!

[warlord90210]

What I mean is, instead of just getting the last 4 you could do something like this:

$dot_index = stripos($base, ".");

$extension = substr($base, $dot_index);

That will return the extension and then you can just compare it to all the elements in the allowed extension array and not have to worry about hard-coding the extension length.

[optikalefxx]

@warlord90210 i thought about that. But you would need to get the LAST index of "." because we can't gurantee there is only 1 dot. so i figured it was safer to get the end, because we can gurantee the end is the extension

[warlord90210]

Very true very true, I thought about that myself after I posted the comment.

Oh well, either way is good I suppose, great tutorial as always.

[warlord90210]

Great video, could you instead check for the length of the array for the different types allowed and then you wouldn't have to keep a constant 4 for the length?