Simple Attatchment Fix?? ...or so I thought!

[Darrenjs1210]

Was just wondering if anyone could help out with what should be a fairly simple fix for a contact form with image upload.

 

The image DOES get uploaded to the temporary folder, but doesn't appear when I receive the email into my account.

 

I think the form is almost good to go, just can't figure out why the image is not attatched to the email when i receive it - guessing the problem is somewhere in the last 10 lines of code.

 

Really appreciate if someone could figure what's I'm doing wrong. (...perhaps it was thinking I could learn PHP in the first place!).

 

Thanks.

 

<?php

ini_set("sendmail_from", "darren@mywebsite.co.uk");
ini_set("SMTP", "smtp.myhostingcompany.co.uk");

if($name = filter_var($_POST['name']))
if($address = filter_var($_POST['address']))
if($postcode = filter_var($_POST['postcode']))
if($phone = filter_var($_POST['phone']))
if($email = filter_var($_POST['email']))
if($details = filter_var($_POST['details']))
if($contactby = filter_var($_POST['contactby']))

/* Subject and Email Destinations */
$emailSubject = 'Work Email!';
$webMaster = 'darren@mywebsite.co.uk';

/* Gathering Data Variables */
$nameField = $_POST['name'];
$addressField = $_POST['address'];
$postcodeField = $_POST['postcode'];
$phoneField = $_POST['phone'];
$emailField = $_POST['email'];
$detailsField = $_POST['details'];
$contactbyField = $_POST['contactby'];
    
    $allowed_filetypes = array('.jpg','.gif','.bmp','.png'); 
    $max_filesize = 524288; // Maximum filesize in BYTES (currently 0.5MB)  
    $upload_path = './uploads/'; 

    $filename = $_FILES['userfile']['name']; 
    $ext = substr($filename, strpos($filename,'.'), strlen($filename)-1); 

    if(!in_array($ext,$allowed_filetypes))
    die('The file you attempted to upload is not allowed.');

    if(filesize($_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name']) > $max_filesize)
    die('The file you attempted to upload is too large.');

    if(!is_writable($upload_path))
    die('You cannot upload to the specified directory, please CHMOD it to 777.');

    if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'],$upload_path . $filename))
    echo 'Your file upload was successful, view the file <a href=
    "' . $upload_path . $filename . '" title="Your File">here</a>'; // It worked.
    else
    echo 'There was an error during the file upload.  Please try again.'; // It failed

    $body = <<<EOD
    Name: $name
    Address: $address
    Postcode: $postcode
    Phone: $phone
    Email: $email
    Details: $details
    Contactby: $contactby
    EOD;

$headers = "From: $email\r\n";
$headers .= "Contact-type: text/html\r\n";
$attachment = chunk_split(base64_encode(file_get_contents($temp_file)));
$tmp_file = $_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'];
$success = mail($webMaster, $attatchment, $body, $headers, "-fdarren@mywebsite.co.uk");

    /* Results rendered as HTML */

    $theResults = <<<EOD
    SENT SENT SENT
    EOD;
    echo "$theResults"
    ?>

[Buddski]

The second parameter of mail is the subject of the email.

Sending an attachment can be tricky, but take a look at this example.

php-e-mail-attachment-script

[Darrenjs1210]

Is a slightly different way of getting the attatchment in that example.

 

They use MIME rather than storing the image in a temporary folder. Better for security I guess.... but harder to get working.

 

I looked at the first answer from this thread:

 

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7323943/php-contact-form-with-file-attachment

 

and thought it seemed a bit easier?? Well........ at least if it actually worked!

 

 

[Buddski]

The answer there is using a PHP class called PHPMailer, even though the OP hasnt got it in his code.

The only way (as far as I know) to send an attachment in an email is to use MIME.

Ive attached a basic example below of how you can add this to your script.. It might require a few tweaks to get it to work.

 

$body = <<<EOD
Name: $name
Address: $address
Postcode: $postcode
Phone: $phone
Email: $email
Details: $details
Contactby: $contactby
EOD;

// Create a Subject //
$subject = 'Test Attachment';

// Create your MIME boundary //
$semi_rand = md5(time());
$mime_boundary = '==Multipart_Boundary_x'.$semi_rand.'x';

// Make up some headers
$headers = 'From: ' . $email . "\r\n" .
'To: '.$webMaster."\r\n" .
'Reply-To: ' . $email . "\r\n" .
'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n" .
'Content-Type: multipart/mixed;' . "\r\n" . " boundary=\"".$mime_boundary."\"";

// Create a message variable that we can append the data to //
$message = '';

// Get the attachment ready //
$temp_file = $upload_path . $filename;
if (file_exists($temp_file)) {
$file_type = mime_content_type($temp_file);
$data = file_get_contents($temp_file);
$data = chunk_split(base64_encode($data));

// Add the attachment to the message data //
$message .= "--".$mime_boundary."\n" .
"Content-Type: {$file_type};\n" .
" name=\"{$filename}\"\n" .
"Content-Disposition: attachment;\n" .
" filename=\"{$filename}\"\n" .
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n\n" .
$data . "\n\n";
}

// Chuck in the rest of the BODY //
$message .= "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n\n" .
"--".$mime_boundary."\n" .
"Content-Type: text/html; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n" .
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n" .
$body . "\n" . 
"--".$mime_boundary."--\n\n";

$success = mail($webMaster, $subject, $message, $headers, "-fdarren@mywebsite.co.uk");

You can see where this code is supposed to go in relation to your script.. I have never used the mail() function to send an attachment so I cannot make any guarantees.

 

Also this code was hacked together from a Mail class I wrote many moons ago.