sending attachment form local drive with mail()

[Roy G. Vervoort]

With them help of newsgroups I created a form that makes it possible to sent
an email with an attachement thats on the internet.. How can i attache a
file thats on the users harddrive?

this works great (i upladed the file bijlage.doc)

"FileName"=>"ht tp://www.royvervoort .nl/testatt/bijlage.doc",


i would like to attche the file from my c drive

"FileName"=>"c: \bijlage.doc",

[Sandman]

Re: sending attachment form local drive with mail()

In article <40332cf0$0$563 $e4fe514c@news. xs4all.nl>,
"Roy G. Vervoort" <roy.vervoort@r ojaal.nl> wrote:
[color=blue]
> With them help of newsgroups I created a form that makes it possible to sent
> an email with an attachement thats on the internet.. How can i attache a
> file thats on the users harddrive?
>
> this works great (i upladed the file bijlage.doc)
>
> "FileName"=>"ht tp://www.royvervoort .nl/testatt/bijlage.doc",
>
>
> i would like to attche the file from my c drive
>
> "FileName"=>"c: \bijlage.doc",[/color]

PHP can't access the HD of the computer viewing the HTML page. You have
to create a form that has field upload field. As such:

<form action="/insert.php" method="post" enctype="multip art/form-data">
<input type='text' name='subject' />
<input type='file' name='thefile' />
</form>

And in insert.php:


if (file_exists($_ FILES["thefile"][tmp_name]){
# Ok, we have a file uploaded.
$filepath = "/temp/path/" . $_FILES["thefile"][name]
move_uploaded_f ile($_FILES["thefile"][tmp_name], $filepath);
}

Now, when creating the mail(), you can access the $filepath variable
for its location on the harddrive, and you may want to delete that file
after sending the mail.

--
Sandman[.net]

[Roy G. Vervoort]

Re: sending attachment form local drive with mail()

Thanks but i keep getting an error message


Parse error: parse error in /var/www/html/email/insert.php on line 2

and i can not find the problem

can you help me some more


"Sandman" <mr@sandman.net > schreef in bericht
news:mr-85370B.10261818 022004@news.fu-berlin.de...[color=blue]
> In article <40332cf0$0$563 $e4fe514c@news. xs4all.nl>,
> "Roy G. Vervoort" <roy.vervoort@r ojaal.nl> wrote:
>[color=green]
> > With them help of newsgroups I created a form that makes it possible to[/color][/color]
sent[color=blue][color=green]
> > an email with an attachement thats on the internet.. How can i attache a
> > file thats on the users harddrive?
> >
> > this works great (i upladed the file bijlage.doc)
> >
> > "FileName"=>"ht tp://www.royvervoort .nl/testatt/bijlage.doc",
> >
> >
> > i would like to attche the file from my c drive
> >
> > "FileName"=>"c: \bijlage.doc",[/color]
>
> PHP can't access the HD of the computer viewing the HTML page. You have
> to create a form that has field upload field. As such:
>
> <form action="/insert.php" method="post" enctype="multip art/form-data">
> <input type='text' name='subject' />
> <input type='file' name='thefile' />
> </form>
>
> And in insert.php:
>
>
> if (file_exists($_ FILES["thefile"][tmp_name]){
> # Ok, we have a file uploaded.
> $filepath = "/temp/path/" . $_FILES["thefile"][name]
> move_uploaded_f ile($_FILES["thefile"][tmp_name], $filepath);
> }
>
> Now, when creating the mail(), you can access the $filepath variable
> for its location on the harddrive, and you may want to delete that file
> after sending the mail.
>
> --
> Sandman[.net][/color]

[Geoff Berrow]

Re: sending attachment form local drive with mail()

I noticed that Message-ID: <40339e7c$0$570 $e4fe514c@news. xs4all.nl> from
Roy G. Vervoort contained the following:
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>> $filepath = "/temp/path/" . $_FILES["thefile"][name][/color][/color]

missing ';'

--
Geoff Berrow (put thecat out to email)
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My opinions, not the committee's, mine.
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[Sandman]

Re: sending attachment form local drive with mail()

In article <40339e7c$0$570 $e4fe514c@news. xs4all.nl>,
"Roy G. Vervoort" <roy.vervoort@r ojaal.nl> wrote:
[color=blue]
> Thanks but i keep getting an error message
>
> Parse error: parse error in /var/www/html/email/insert.php on line 2
>
> and i can not find the problem
>
> can you help me some more[/color]

Not unless you show me what code you have on line 2 in your insert.php script.

If you even have a insert.php script - that was supposed to be the script that
handles the mail.

--
Sandman[.net]

[Roy G. Vervoort]

Re: sending attachment form local drive with mail()

I copied your code,

if (file_exists($_ FILES["thefile"][tmp_name]){
# Ok, we have a file uploaded.
$filepath = "/temp/path/" . $_FILES["thefile"][name]
move_uploaded_f ile($_FILES["thefile"][tmp_name], $filepath);
}

Line 2 is:

if (file_exists($_ FILES["thefile"][tmp_name]){

(i'm very new to programming in PHP, i used to be an VB programmer several
years ago)

thanks

roy

"Sandman" <mr@sandman.net > schreef in bericht
news:mr-F889AA.09432519 022004@news.fu-berlin.de...[color=blue]
> In article <40339e7c$0$570 $e4fe514c@news. xs4all.nl>,
> "Roy G. Vervoort" <roy.vervoort@r ojaal.nl> wrote:
>[color=green]
> > Thanks but i keep getting an error message
> >
> > Parse error: parse error in /var/www/html/email/insert.php on line 2
> >
> > and i can not find the problem
> >
> > can you help me some more[/color]
>
> Not unless you show me what code you have on line 2 in your insert.php[/color]
script.[color=blue]
>
> If you even have a insert.php script - that was supposed to be the script[/color]
that[color=blue]
> handles the mail.
>
> --
> Sandman[.net][/color]

[Sandman]

Re: sending attachment form local drive with mail()

In article <403492ac$0$574 $e4fe514c@news. xs4all.nl>,
"Roy G. Vervoort" <roy.vervoort@r ojaal.nl> wrote:
[color=blue]
> I copied your code,
>
> if (file_exists($_ FILES["thefile"][tmp_name]){
> # Ok, we have a file uploaded.
> $filepath = "/temp/path/" . $_FILES["thefile"][name]
> move_uploaded_f ile($_FILES["thefile"][tmp_name], $filepath);
> }
>
> Line 2 is:
>
> if (file_exists($_ FILES["thefile"][tmp_name]){
>
> (i'm very new to programming in PHP, i used to be an VB programmer several
> years ago)[/color]

Sorry - that should read

if (file_exists($_ FILES["thefile"][tmp_name])){

Note the extra ")".