Send File Attachment from Form Using phpMailer and PHP

Question

I have a form on example.com/contact-us.php that looks like this (simplified):

<form method="post" action="process.php" enctype="multipart/form-data">   <input type="file" name="uploaded_file" id="uploaded_file" />   <input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="10000000" /> </form> 

In my process.php file, I have the following code utilizing PHPMailer() to send an email:

require("phpmailer.php");  $mail = new PHPMailer();  $mail->From     = [email protected]; $mail->FromName = My name; $mail->AddAddress([email protected],"John Doe");  $mail->WordWrap = 50; $mail->IsHTML(true);  $mail->Subject  =  "Contact Form Submitted"; $mail->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...

1. 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?
2. 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!

Answer 1

Try:

if (isset($_FILES['uploaded_file']) &&     $_FILES['uploaded_file']['error'] == UPLOAD_ERR_OK) {     $mail->AddAttachment($_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') 

Answer 2

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.

<form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="form_phpm_mailer.php"  enctype="multipart/form-data">