web developers/file upload

[DanS]

I'm in the process of finishing a website and it needs to incorporate an online form that people can fill in, submit, and it sends it through as an email.
This is no probs, but it also needs to incorporate a file upload function, that will upload a file from your hard drive, then attach it to the email!
Anyone seen anything like this before? seen any tutorials etc
ta

 

[Daz]

Yea, LOADS.
Google for "file upload php" for example

Upload to temp, attach to the mailer, and then remove I guess?

You'll need to be creative with the PHP a bit.. but hey.. all fun

 

[KDF]

I think I wrote a script to do that once


The cool thing with PHP5 is you can now monitor an upload, eg. to display a progress bar back to the user. Combine that with AJAX and you have a nice upload script.

 

[DanS]

You got an example we can see anywhere, i've found a couple that should work, but I think my issue is with wordpress as a cms, it will send the email but the file wont be attached! its doing my head in!

 

[KDF]

the php documentation is the best I have come across for a programming language, if you need to know what any function does and the proper syntax just use www.php.net/functionname

where functionname = the name of the function you want to know about.

try http://www.tizag.com/phpT/fileupload.php for a quick php file upload tutorial.

 

[DanS]

I've sorted it cheers guys,
I found a nice php plugin for wordpress that allows you to send an online form and attach a file to the email sent, perfect!

 

[Adams_16v]

dynamicdrive is always good