Sending a file from the server as an email attachment: Coldfusion

[matterhorn]

Hello all,
I am trying to send a pdf that resides on the server as an attachment. Potential customers provde their information through a coldfusion form and I am trying to send them the PDF once completed. Any idea on how to accomplish this? I am aware of the cfmailparam tag...but it seems like that is only for files on the client side. Any help would be awesome...I have beaten my head against the desk for quite a while on this one.

Thanks,
Matt

 

[NorthStarDA]

the cfmailparam tag only uses files on the server, before attaching a file on the client to an email, it first has to be uploaded, you should be able to simply pass the server path to file in the cfmailparam tag.

see

http://tutorial27.easycfm.com/

for a good description of how the process works

maybe you can post the code you've tried so far?


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[matterhorn]

I am not looking to have the user upload a file...I am looking to have the user submit information about themselves and once recieved, send them a file that already resides on the server as an e-mail attachment. Does this make sense?

 

[TruthInSatire]

same way. just put the path of the file in the cfparam tag. it doesn't have to be JUST uploaded by a user.

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[matterhorn]

is this a relative path or a absolute path?? can you give an example?

 

[TruthInSatire]

you'd use the physical path. you can make it relative but it isn't the path of your site (

http://www.mysite.com/files/file.jpg)

its the path to the file using the directory structure (c:\

http://wwwebroot\mysite\files\file.jpg)

you can use expandPath to make it relative.
here are links to help you.

expand path:

http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/6/CFML_Reference/functions-pt178.htm#1104357

cfmailparam:

http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/6/CFML_Reference/Tags-pt22.htm#1101294

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