Email selected attachments

[jrwinterburn]

Hi Guys,

As it has been so long since I have coded anything in PHP, I can't think how to go about a form I am trying to code.

Basically, I have a small form which a visitor to my site will enter their email address and choose any of 4 checkboxes. These 4 checkboxes represent 4 PDF files residing on my web space.

I need to have the form generate an email to send to the email address entered, which will have attached the PDF(s) the visitor has requested.

Additionally, it will send me a notification email.

Any ideas where to start? I am trying to keep this as short and sweet as possible. I know how to create the email to and notification parts, just not sure how to go about the attachment(s) scenario...

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Jon

 

[sleipnir214]

I would, in the script that generates the user with which the user interacts, create my four checkboxes of the form:

<input type="checkbox" name="doc[]" value="some reference to the first document">
<input type="checkbox" name="doc[]" value="some reference to the second document">
<input type="checkbox" name="doc[]" value="some reference to the third document">
<input type="checkbox" name="doc[]" value="some reference to the fourth document">

When the form is submitted, $_POST['doc'] will itself be an array, populate only with those values that the user checked. From there, it would be a simple matter of looping through $_POST['doc'] with a foreach(), using the values to figure out which documents to attach to the email.

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[jrwinterburn]

thank you - i will give that a bash!