Php Get Email Attachment

Question

i have a form where i have an input file to place an attachment. It happens that all the data i have in the form i want to send by email. However, before i do that, i redirect all the data inputed to another php page and receive it with get.

So my first question is, how can i get the content of the attachment in other php page by get?

After that, after i verify all the data in the new php page, i pretend to send it by email. I plan to use this code:

    //define the receiver of the email 
$to = '[email protected]'; 
//define the subject of the email 
$subject = 'Test email with attachment'; 
//create a boundary string. It must be unique 
//so we use the MD5 algorithm to generate a random hash 
$random_hash = md5(date('r', time())); 
//define the headers we want passed. Note that they are separated with \r\n 
$headers = "From: [email protected]\r\nReply-To: [email protected]"; 
//add boundary string and mime type specification 
$headers .= "\r\nContent-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"PHP-mixed-".$random_hash."\""; 
//read the atachment file contents into a string,
//encode it with MIME base64,
//and split it into smaller chunks
$attachment = chunk_split(base64_encode(file_get_contents('attachment.zip'))); 
//define the body of the message. 
ob_start(); //Turn on output buffering 
?> 
--PHP-mixed-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>  
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>" 

--PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>  
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Hello World!!! 
This is simple text email message. 

--PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>  
Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" 
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

<h2>Hello World!</h2> 
<p>This is something with <b>HTML</b> formatting.</p> 

--PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>-- 

--PHP-mixed-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>  
Content-Type: application/zip; name="attachment.zip"  
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64  
Content-Disposition: attachment  

<?php echo $attachment; ?> 
--PHP-mixed-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>-- 

<?php 
//copy current buffer contents into $message variable and delete current output buffer 
$message = ob_get_clean(); 
//send the email 
$mail_sent = @mail( $to, $subject, $message, $headers ); 
//if the message is sent successfully print "Mail sent". Otherwise print "Mail failed" 
echo $mail_sent ? "Mail sent" : "Mail failed";

But i have a doubt, where there is "attachment.zip" what should i put? The variable that will get the data of the attachment on this new php page?

Thanks in advance!

Forgetting the part above:

this is my declaration and submit button on the form:

<form id="formElem" name="formElem" enctype="multipart/form-data" action="" method="post">

<button name='enviar_candidatura' id='enviar_candidatura' value='enviar_candidatura' onclick='return false;' type='submit'>

when i click on the button above, i enter on the following jquery function:

$('#enviar_candidatura').bind('click',function(){

    var conta_Duplicates;
    conta_Duplicates=dadosImportantes();
    //alert("Deu");
    var preenchimentoForm=true;
    //alert("Contasssss"+conta1);
    //var eventos=$countEventos;
    var eventos=conta_Duplicates[2];
    //alert("Wiggins"+eventos);
    //var empregos=$countEmpregos;
    var empregos=conta_Duplicates[1];
    //var cursos=$countCursos;
    var cursos=conta_Duplicates[0];

    //alert($countEmpregos);
    if($('#formElem').data('errors')){
        preenchimentoForm=false;

        dadosFormularios(form, preenchimentoForm, cursos, empregos, eventos);
        return false;
    }
    else{
        dadosFormularios(form, preenchimentoForm, cursos, empregos, eventos);
    }
}

That's in this function i'm having difficult, because if i'm right, i should have a var here assigned to the form element so that i can pass her to the function "dadosFormularios".

Once inside the dadosFormularios(...), it's there i want to call the

form.action = 'index.php?pagina=candidaturasB&'+ qstringA;

to redirect to the php page where i will send the email with the attachment.

Hope i was clear and sorry for some variables in a foreign language, hope it's not a problem.

It's a form where i have and input type="file" there. The user select there the file from his Pc that he wants to sent. So what i pretend in therms of code is to receive that information on another php page to sent the file specified by the user to an email. Is that possbile? — user1511579

Mihai Iorga Mihai Iorga · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-29T09:32:38

The form you are completing needs to have enctype="multipart/form-data" and needs to have method="post" for upload to work.

like this:

<form method="post" action="" enctype="multipart/form-data" id="myform" onsubmit="return checkForm(this)";>
    <input type="file" name="filename" />
    // ...........
</form>

After that in your send mail you can get the file with $_FILES['filename']['tmp_name'], notice that filename has to be same as input's name:

$attachment = chunk_split(base64_encode(file_get_contents($_FILES['filename']['tmp_name'])));

for function

<script type="text/javascript">
    function checkForm(form){
        // process fieds
        return checkNextFunction(form);
    }

    function checkNextFunction(form){
         form.action = 'myurl.php';
         return true;
    }
</script>

Check JSFiddle.

Php Get Email Attachment

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