How to add Attachments in php mail()

Saafia NM

9y1.3kPHP

I just followed a tutorial and i can send attachments. But the hard coded file path is only can send, i.e;

$mail->AddAttachment("images/pdf/xyz.pdf");

i need to send the any chosen files.I did not get the path of chosen file.Please help me to move on....

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Manikandan Murugesan9y ago
You should use one of the classes built for that, for example PEAR mail. For a bit more explanation, assuming we use just a plain text UTF8 content with the PDF file.
- uniqboundary should be replace by some sort of unique string
- $fileType is the MIME type of your file
Here the code :
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0'."\r\n"
    .'Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary="--uniqboundary"'."\r\n";

$body = '--uniqboundary."\r\n".
    .'Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8'."\r\n"
    .'Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit'."\r\n\r\n"
    .$text
    .'--uniqboundary'."\r\n"
    .'Content-Type: '.$fileType.'; name="'.basename($filename).'"'."\r\n"
    .'Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64'."\r\n"
    .'Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.basename($filename).'"'."\r\n\r\n";

$lineSize = filesize($filename) + 1;
$f = fopen($filename, 'r');
$chunks[] = chunk_split(base64_encode(fread($f, $lineSize)));
fclose($f);

$body .= implode("\r\n", $chunks)
    .'--uniqboundary--'."\r\n";

mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers);
Gokhul Varman9y ago
please refer the link for more detailed explantion:https://www.sanwebe.com/2011/01/send-php-mail-with-attachment
Kesavan Krishnan9y ago
Hi,

$file_to_attach = PATH_OF_YOUR_FILE_HERE';

for this you have to generate the file path dynamically depends on your project flow.

For ex., if you want to attach file from user form input you can directly use the temp path of attached file. So the file file path may or may not hard coded depends upon ur project flow.
Mari Shankari9y ago
http://form.guide/email-form/php-email-form-attachment.html
you may try this ...
could you please clarify me one thing like how your attachment are based on
Saafia NM9y ago
I followed the Above code, but my doubt is

$file_to_attach = PATH_OF_YOUR_FILE_HERE';

i don't want to hard code my path.I need to automatically getting file path into there.
Mari Shankari9y ago
Hi,
Once you downloaded phpmailer, extract it and set path, in your code give details as
$email = new PHPMailer();
$email->From = '[email protected]';
$email->FromName = 'Your Name';
$email->Subject = 'Message Subject';
$email->Body = $bodytext;
$email->AddAddress( '[email protected]' );
$file_to_attach = 'PATH_OF_YOUR_FILE_HERE';
$email->AddAttachment( $file_to_attach , 'NameOfFile.pdf' );
return $email->Send();