In this post you will learn how to send doc attachment, pdf attachment any file attached in your php email. You can send a file through php mail function using HTML form in PHP. Firstly you have to create simple HTML form.
HTML Code
<input type=“email” name=“email”>
<input type=“file” name=“zipFile” accept=“zip/*”>
<input type=“submit” name=“Submit” value=“Submit”>
</form>
PHP Code
Using this code you can send file in attachment using php mail function. In this code you send any file which you want to send in attachment and without uploading file in database. You can send attachment without uploading file to server and without saving the file in database.
{$from_email = ‘[email protected]’; //sender email
$recipient_email = ‘[email protected]’; //recipient email
$subject = ‘Test mail’; //subject of email
$message = ‘This is body of the message’; //message body
//get file details we need
$file_tmp_name = $_FILES[‘my_file’][‘tmp_name’];
$file_name = $_FILES[‘my_file’][‘name’];
$file_size = $_FILES[‘my_file’][‘size’];
$file_type = $_FILES[‘my_file’][‘type’];
$file_error = $_FILES[‘my_file’][‘error’];
$user_email = filter_var($_POST[“email”], FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL);
if($file_error>0)
{
die(‘upload error’);
}
//read from the uploaded file & base64_encode content for the mail
$handle = fopen($file_tmp_name, “r”);
$content = fread($handle, $file_size);
fclose($handle);
$encoded_content = chunk_split(base64_encode($content));
$boundary = md5(“sanwebe”);
//header
$headers = “MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n”;
$headers .= “From:”.$from_email.”\r\n”;
$headers .= “Reply-To: “.$user_email.”” . “\r\n”;
$headers .= “Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary = $boundary\r\n\r\n”;
//plain text
$body = “–$boundary\r\n”;
$body .= “Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n”;
$body .= “Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n\r\n”;
$body .= chunk_split(base64_encode($message));
//attachment
$body .= “–$boundary\r\n”;
$body .=”Content-Type: $file_type; name=\”$file_name\”\r\n”;
$body .=”Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\”$file_name\”\r\n”;
$body .=”Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n”;
$body .=”X-Attachment-Id: “.rand(1000,99999).”\r\n\r\n”;
$body .= $encoded_content;
$sentMail = @mail($recipient_email, $subject, $body, $headers);
if($sentMail) //output success or failure messages
{
die(‘Thank you for your email’);
}else{
die(‘Could not send mail! Please check your PHP mail configuration.’);
}
}
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