Getting rid of temporary filename in attachement 1

[Sleidia]

Hello everyone,

I'm using the code below in order to add an attachement to an email built from a form.

The problem is that the filename of the attachement found in the email remains the one of the temporary file made during the upload.

How could I make sure that it's the real filename of the file that will appear in the email?

Thanks a lot to the ones who will help.

Cheers

				for($i=0; $i <= sizeof($file_fieldname); $i++ ) {

						if ($_FILES[$file_fieldname[$i]]['name'] != "") {

						$file_name = $_FILES[$file_fieldname[$i]]['name'];
						$file_type = $_FILES[$file_fieldname[$i]]['type'];
						$file_tmp_name = $_FILES[$file_fieldname[$i]]['tmp_name'];
						$file_cnt = "";

						$f=@fopen($file_tmp_name, "rb");
						
						if (!$f) continue;
						
						while($f && !feof($f))
						$file_cnt .= fread($f, 4096);
						fclose($f);
						
								if (!strlen($file_type)) $file_type="application/octet-stream";
								
								if ($file_type == 'application/x-msdownload') $file_type = "application/octet-stream";

						$message .= "--" . $separator . $br;
						$message .= "Content-Type: " . $file_type . ";" . $br;
						$message .= "name=\"" .$file_name  . "\"" . $br;
						$message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64" . $br;
						$message .= "Content-Disposition: attachment;" . $br;
						$message .= "filename=\"" . $file_name . "\"" . $br . $br;
						$message .= chunk_split(base64_encode($file_cnt)); 

						}
				
				}

 

[sleipnir214]

That's odd. At no point have you supplied the temp name.

Have you looked at PHPMailer? That class has an AddAttachment() method that will simply add a file on the filesystem. You can provide an alternate name to use, too.

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[Sleidia]

Thanks sleipnir214.

I had a look at the documentation and small tutorial provided on the PHPmailer site yesterday and I found it not very convenient for my current project. For example, I don't like the fact that you have to specify the smtp server and other things. I prefer to keep things simple when it's possible anyway.

You're right, in the code, I never specify the temp filename in the header.

Maybe there is some way to rename the temp file with the real filename just after the file content is gathered?

 

[sleipnir214]

You don't necessarily have to specify the SMTP server. The class has three ways of getting the mail out: via PHP's mail() function, via a locally-installed sendmail app and via network sockets directly to an SMTP server. It's only necessary to set the host if you are using the third method.

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[sleipnir214]

Sorry, forgot something.

PHPMailer defaults to using PHP's mail() command to sent out email. If you use that default, then your code will look more like the third code-example on

http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net/extending.html

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