Adding an attachment to email form: Integrating PHPmailer for handling the attachment
<p>Ok below is my php script that handles the input from an HTML form.
The script works great but after trying and trying I couldn't get plain old PHP code to handle an attachment from the form.</p>

<p>After reading for days and testing different code everyone suggests using a premade application to simplify the attachment. (I chose PHPmailer)</p>

<p>I've tried to get it working but all I can find are examples of static files:</p>

<p><strong>Example from the PHPmailer readme:</strong></p>

<blockquote>
  <p>$mail->AddAttachment("c:\temp\js-bak.sql");  // add attachments</p>
  
  <p>$mail->AddAttachment("c:/temp/11-10-00.zip");</p>
</blockquote>

<p>My question is it possible to attach a file using a "file" selector from the HTML form?
If so can I integrate the PHPmailer attachment code into my production script without having to recode the entire file?</p>

<p>What code do I need to attach the file from my form?</p>

<p>Thank You.</p>

<p><strong>My current script</strong></p>

<pre><code>&lt;?php

        require("phpmailer.inc.php");
        $email = new phpmailer;
        $uploaddir = 'uploads/';
        $uploadfile = $uploaddir . basename($_FILES['userfile']['name']);

        if (move_uploaded_file($_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'], $uploadfile)) {
        $email-&gt;AddAttachment($uploadfile);
    } else {
        echo "File failed to attach. Maximum size of 5mb\n";    
    }

    if(isset($_POST['email'])) {

        // EDIT THE 2 LINES BELOW AS REQUIRED
        $email_to = "example@abc.com";
        $email_subject = "IT Request (Support)";  //Email Subject


        function died($error) {
            // your error code can go here
            echo "We are very sorry, but there were error(s) found with the form you submitted. ";
            echo "These errors appear below.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;";
            echo $error."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;";
            echo "Please go back and fix these errors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;";
            die();
        }

        // validation: expected data already exists
        if(!isset($_POST['name']) ||
            !isset($_POST['datereg']) || 
            !isset($_POST['message']) || 
            !isset($_POST['email'])) {
            died('We are sorry, but there appears to be a problem with the form you submitted.');       
        }

        $name = $_POST['name'];                 //Required

        $request_date = $_POST['datereg'];      //Required

        $email_address = $_POST['email'];       //Required
        $message = $_POST['message'];           //Not required

        $error_message = "";    
        $email_exp = '/^[A-Za-z0-9._%-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,4}$/';
      if(!preg_match($email_exp,$email_address)) {
        $error_message .= 'The Email Address you entered does not appear to be valid.&lt;br /&gt;';
      }
        $string_exp = "/^[\$A-Za-z0-9._%-]/";
      if(!preg_match($string_exp,$name)) {
        $error_message .= 'The Name you entered does not appear to be valid.&lt;br /&gt;';
      }
      if(!preg_match($string_exp,$request_date)) {
        $error_message .= 'The Request Date you entered does not appear to be valid.&lt;br /&gt;';
      }  

      if(!preg_match($string_exp,$message)) {
        $error_message .= 'You must list a description in order to submit the form.&lt;br /&gt;';
      }     
      if(strlen($error_message) &gt; 0) {
        died($error_message);
      }
        $email_message = "---IT Request Form Content---\n\n";

        function clean_string($string) {
          $bad = array("content-type","bcc:","to:","cc:","href");
          return str_replace($bad,"",$string);
        }

    //These fields are required per validation so they don't need to be tested.
        $email_message .= "Name: ".clean_string($name)."\n";
        $email_message .= "Email: ".clean_string($email_address)."\n";
        $email_message .= "Date of Request: ".clean_string($request_date)."\n";
        $email_message .= "Description: ".clean_string($message)."\n";  

    // create email headers
    $headers = 'From: '.$email_address."\r\n".
    'Reply-To: '.$email_address."\r\n" .
    'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
    @mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);  
    ?&gt;

    &lt;!-- include your own success html here --&gt;

    Thank you for submitting an IT Support Request. Your information will be reviewed as soon as possible.
    &lt;META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" CONTENT="2;URL=http://getsupport/index.html"&gt;

&lt;?php
}
?&gt;
</code></pre>
