File attachment with PHPMailer

Question

I have an HTML form with the option to upload a file.
I would like then to send that file as an attachment to the email address along with the rest of the form data.
I'm using PHP Mailer and I get the form data to send: such as name, telephone number, etc.

I can't get the image to send along with it. I've provided the code I have so far

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Form</title>
</head>

<body>

<form id='contactus' action='contact.php' enctype="multipart/form-data" method='post'>

<fieldset >
<legend>Contact us</legend>


<div class='container'>
  
    <label for='email' >Name*:</label><br/>
    <input type="text" id="name" name="name" required /><br>
    <label for='email' >Phone*:</label><br/>
    <input type="text" id="phone" name="phone" required /><br>
    <label for='email' >Email*:</label><br/>
    <input type='text' name='email' id='email' required/><br/>
 
    <label for='message' >Message:</label><br/>
    <textarea rows="10" cols="50" name='message' id='message'></textarea>
    <br>
    <!-- Name of input element determines name in $_FILES array -->
    Send this file: <input id="file" name="image" type="file" />
    <input type='submit' name='Submit' value='Submit' />
</div>

</fieldset>
</form>
    </body>
</html>

<?php
   if(isset($_FILES['image'])){
      $errors= array();
      $file_name = $_FILES['image']['name'];
      $file_size = $_FILES['image']['size'];
      $file_tmp = $_FILES['image']['tmp_name'];
      $file_type = $_FILES['image']['type'];
      $file_ext=strtolower(end(explode('.',$_FILES['image']['name'])));
      
      $expensions= array("jpeg","jpg","png","pdf");
      
      if(in_array($file_ext,$expensions)=== false){
         $errors[]="extension not allowed, please choose a PDF, JPEG or PNG file.";
      }
      
      if($file_size > 2097152) {
         $errors[]='File size must be excately 2 MB';
      }
      
      if(empty($errors)==true) {
         move_uploaded_file($file_tmp,"uploads/".$file_name); //The folder where you would like your file to be saved
         echo "Success";
      }else{
         print_r($errors);
      }
   }

// PHPMailer script below

$email = $_REQUEST['email'] ;
$name = $_REQUEST['name'] ;
$phone = $_REQUEST['phone'] ;
$message = $_REQUEST['message'] ;
require("phpmailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php");

$mail = new PHPMailer();

$mail->IsSMTP();

$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com";

$mail->SMTPAuth = true; 

$mail->Username = "yoursmtp@username.com"; // SMTP username
$mail->Password = "hidden"; // SMTP password
$mail->addAttachment("uploads/".$file_name);
$mail->From = $email;
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls'; 
$mail->Port = 587; //SMTP port
$mail->addAddress("your@email.com", "your name");
$mail->Subject = "You have an email from a website visitor!";
$mail->Body ="
Name: $name<br>
Email: $email<br>
Telephone: $phone<br><br><br>
Comments: $message";
$mail->AltBody = $message;

if(!$mail->Send())
{
echo "Message could not be sent. <p>";
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
exit;
}

echo "<script>alert('Message has been sent')</script>";
?>

drew010 · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-15T15:16:03.257

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When you call

move_uploaded_file($file_tmp,"uploads/".$file_name);

This creates a file in the uploads/ directory with the name of the file as it was named on the uploader's computer.

Then you used sample code to add the attachment to phpMailer so you're basically attempting to attach non-existent files.

These two lines:

$mail->addAttachment('uploads/file.tar.gz');   // I took this from the phpmailer example on github but I'm not sure if I have it right.      
$mail->addAttachment('uploads/image.jpg', 'new.jpg');

should be changed to:

$mail->addAttachment("uploads/".$file_name);

Also note, it isn't necessary to call move_uploaded_file if you don't want to save the attachment after its uploaded and emailed. If that's the case just call AddAttachment with $_FILES['image']['tmp_name'] as the file argument.

Also, in your HTML form, you have

<input id="file" name="file" type="file" />

but refer to the input as image in the code. You should change the name of that input from file to image.

To only attach the image and not save it take out the move_uploaded_file code and add:

$file_tmp  = $_FILES['image']['tmp_name'];
$file_name = $_FILES['image']['name'];
//...
$mail->AddAttachment($file_tmp, $file_name);

edited Mar 15 '16 at 15:16

answered Mar 14 '16 at 21:04

drew010

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Still no dice! I really appreciate the help btw I'm thinking maybe the problem is lying with the file not actually uploading to anywhere temporarily. When I upload a file, Chrome shows me a progress report at the bottom of the screen e.g 50% > 90%, so I know the browser is in fact registering that the file is being uploaded But when it tries to grab the file and attach it, nothing happens Here is the link incase you can see anything useful www.elisweb.co.uk/form – Eli Nathan Mar 15 '16 at 07:50
Take a look at [this answer](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11764156/send-file-attachment-from-form-using-phpmailer-and-php/11764230#11764230). It's pretty much exactly what you're trying to do. Also you can check `$_FILES['image']['error']` to make sure there are no PHP errors with the file upload. – drew010 Mar 15 '16 at 15:15
Yeah I've tried that one, I'll go back and try again though! I'd upvote your answer for all the help you've given me but my rep isn't high enough yet I'm quite new to stack-overflow so I'm not sure what to do about marking the answer as correct. Since you corrected my code, I would mark your answer as correct, or would that be misleading since I'm still having problems?? – Eli Nathan Mar 15 '16 at 15:52
Do you want to edit your original post with the code you have currently and I can spot if anything is wrong with it that might be causing the upload not to work? – drew010 Mar 15 '16 at 17:07
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I finally managed! Thanks Drew! I had the code wrong for uploading the file to the server. I used this [link](http://www.tutorialspoint.com/php/php_file_uploading.htm) to help me with that and your answer to fix the code in my HTML and PHPMailer script – Eli Nathan Mar 15 '16 at 20:07

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 19 '20 at 15:19

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$mail->addAttachment("uploads/".$file_name);

Just use above code before php mailer send function

edited Aug 19 '20 at 15:19

Dima Kozhevin

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answered Aug 19 '20 at 14:25

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