Send File Attachment from Form Using phpMailer and PHP

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I have a form on example com contact-us php that looks like this  simplified     lt form method  post  action  process php  enctype  multipart form-data  gt     lt input type  file  name  uploaded file  id  uploaded file    gt     lt input type  hidden  name  MAX FILE SIZE  value  10000000    gt   lt  form gt    In my process php file  I have the following code utilizing PHPMailer   to send an email   require  phpmailer php      mail   new PHPMailer      mail- gt From       me example com   mail- gt FromName   My name   mail- gt AddAddress me example com  John Doe      mail- gt WordWrap   50   mail- gt IsHTML true     mail- gt Subject      Contact Form Submitted    mail- gt Body         This is the body of the message      The email sends the body correctly  but without the Attachment of uploaded file   MY QUESTION  I need the file uploaded file from the form to be attached to the email  and sent  I do NOT care about saving the file after the process php script sends it in an email    I understand that I need to add AddAttachment    somewhere  I m assuming under the Body line  for the attachment to be sent  But      What do I put at the top of the process php file to pull in the file uploaded file  Like something using   FILES  uploaded file   to pull in the file from the contact-us php page  What goes inside of AddAttachment    for the file to be attached and sent along with the email and where does this code need to go    Please help and provide code Thanks

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You d use   FILES  uploaded file    tmp name    which is the path where PHP stored the uploaded file  it s a temporary file  removed automatically by PHP when the script ends  unless you ve moved copied it elsewhere    Assuming your client-side form and server-side upload settings are correct  there s nothing you have to do to  pull in  the upload  It ll just magically be available in that tmp name path   Note that you WILL have to validate that the upload actually succeeded  e g   if    FILES  uploaded file    error       UPLOAD ERR OK            attach file to email         Otherwise you may try to do an attachment with a damaged partial non-existent file

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Use this code for sending attachment with upload file option using html form in phpmailer    lt form method  post  action    enctype  multipart form-data  gt                         lt input type  text  name  name  placeholder  Your Name    gt                       lt input type  email  name  email  placeholder  Email    gt                       lt textarea name  msg  placeholder  Your Message  gt  lt  textarea gt                         lt input type  hidden  name  MAX FILE SIZE  value  30000    gt                       lt input type  file  name  userfile     gt                     lt input name  contact  type  submit  value  Submit Enquiry    gt      lt  form gt         lt  php             if isset   POST  contact                                 File Upload                 In PHP versions earlier than 4 1 0   HTTP POST FILES should be used instead                of   FILES                uploaddir    uploads                 uploadfile    uploaddir   basename   FILES  userfile    name                  echo   lt pre gt                if  move uploaded file   FILES  userfile    tmp name     uploadfile                     echo  File is valid  and was successfully uploaded  n                 else                   echo  Possible invalid file upload   n                              echo  Here is some more debugging info                print r   FILES                print   lt  pre gt                         Email               require once  class phpmailer php                require once  class smtp php                    mail body   array   POST  name      POST  email       POST  msg                  new body    Name       mail body 0       Email      mail body 1      Description       mail body 2                   d strtotime  today                   subj    New enquiry    date  Y-m-d h i sa    d                 mail   new PHPMailer       create a new object                  mail- gt IsSMTP       enable SMTP              mail- gt SMTPDebug   1     debugging  1   errors and messages  2   messages only  false   Disable               mail- gt Host    mail yourhost com                mail- gt Port    465                mail- gt SMTPAuth   true     enable               mail- gt SMTPSecure   true               mail- gt IsHTML true                mail- gt Username    admin domain net     from domainname com              mail- gt Password    password                mail- gt SetFrom  admin domain net    Your Website Name                 mail- gt Subject    subj               mail- gt Body       new body                mail- gt AddAttachment  uploadfile                 mail- gt AltBody    Upload                mail- gt AddAddress  recipient domain com                 if   mail- gt Send                                      echo  Mailer Error       mail- gt ErrorInfo                                    else                                    echo   lt p gt        Success               lt  p gt                                        gt    Use this link for reference

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In my own case  i was using serialize   on the form  Hence the files were not being sent to php  If you are using jquery  use FormData    For example   lt form id  form  gt   lt input type  file  name  file    gt   lt input type  submit    gt   lt  form gt    Using jquery       form   submit function  e    e preventDefault    var formData   new FormData this      grab all form contents including files   you can then use formData and pass to ajax

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File could not be Attached from client PC  upload   In the HTML form I have not added following line  so no attachment was going   enctype  multipart form-data   After adding above line in form  as below   the attachment went perfect    lt form id  form1  name  form1  method  post  action  form phpm mailer php   enctype  multipart form-data  gt

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This code help me in Attachment sending       mail- gt AddAttachment   FILES  file    tmp name      FILES  file    name       Replace your AddAttachment      Code with above code

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This will work perfectly       lt form method  post  enctype  multipart form-data  gt       lt input type  file  name  uploaded file  id  uploaded file  multiple  multiple    gt       lt input type  submit  name  upload   gt        lt  form gt        lt  php            if isset   POST  upload                            if  isset   FILES  uploaded file     amp  amp    FILES  uploaded file    error      UPLOAD ERR OK                                         if  array key exists  uploaded file     FILES                                                           mail- gt Subject    My Subject                                mail- gt Body    This is the body                                uploadfile   tempnam sys get temp dir    sha1   FILES  uploaded file    name                              if  move uploaded file   FILES  uploaded file    tmp name     uploadfile                                 mail- gt addAttachment  uploadfile   FILES  uploaded file    name                                   mail- gt send                                echo  Message has been sent                                                    else                     echo  The file is not uploaded  please try again                                      else                     echo  The file is not uploaded  please try again                   gt

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Try   if  isset   FILES  uploaded file     amp  amp        FILES  uploaded file    error      UPLOAD ERR OK         mail- gt AddAttachment   FILES  uploaded file    tmp name                               FILES  uploaded file    name         Basic example can also be found here   The function definition for AddAttachment is   public function AddAttachment  path                                 name                                      encoding    base64                                  type    application octet-stream

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Hey guys the code below worked perfectly fine for me  Just replace the setFrom and addAddress with your preference and that s it     lt  php        PHPMailer simple file upload and send example        Import the PHPMailer class into the global namespace use PHPMailer PHPMailer PHPMailer  use PHPMailer PHPMailer Exception   msg       if  array key exists  userfile     FILES            First handle the upload        Don t trust provided filename - same goes for MIME types        See http   php net manual en features file-upload php 114004 for more thorough upload validation      uploadfile   tempnam sys get temp dir    hash  sha256     FILES  userfile    name          if  move uploaded file   FILES  userfile    tmp name     uploadfile                     Upload handled successfully            Now create a message          require  vendor autoload php            mail   new PHPMailer           mail- gt setFrom  info example com    CV from Web site             mail- gt addAddress  blabla gmail com    CV             mail- gt Subject    PHPMailer file sender            mail- gt Body    My message body             filename     FILES  userfile    name       add this line of code to auto pick the file name            mail- gt addAttachment  uploadfile   My uploaded file    use the one below instead           mail- gt addAttachment  uploadfile   filename           if    mail- gt send                            msg     Mailer Error       mail- gt ErrorInfo                     else                         msg     Message sent                             else                         msg     Failed to move file to      uploadfile                gt   lt  DOCTYPE html gt   lt html gt   lt head gt       lt meta http-equiv  Content-Type  content  text html  charset utf-8  gt       lt title gt PHPMailer Upload lt  title gt   lt  head gt   lt body gt   lt  php if  empty  msg       gt       lt form method  post  enctype  multipart form-data  gt           lt input type  hidden  name  MAX FILE SIZE  value  4194304    gt           lt input name  userfile  type  file  gt           lt input type  submit  value  Send File  gt       lt  form gt    lt  php   else       echo  msg      gt   lt  body gt   lt  html gt

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