Send email with attachment using phpmailer

PHP


In this tutorial I am going to show you how to send email with attachment using phpmailer. I have already write a tutorial on How to Send Email in PHP it included attachment also. Now in this tutorial, I will write send email with attachment using phpmailer.

Simple Code:
<?php 
require('PHPMailer/class.phpmailer.php'); 

$msg = 'Hello World'; 
$subj = 'test mail message'; 
$to = 'info@yoursite.com'; 
$toName = 'Name'; 
$first_name = 'Name'; 
$last_name = 'Last'; 
$from = 'you@youremail.com'; 

//Create a new PHPMailer instance 
$mail = new PHPMailer(); 

//Tell PHPMailer to use SMTP 
$mail->IsSMTP();

$mail->Timeout  = 360;

//Enable SMTP debugging
// 0 = off (for production use)
// 1 = client messages
// 2 = client and server messages
$mail->SMTPDebug  = 0;

//Ask for HTML-friendly debug output
$mail->Debugoutput = 'html';

//Set the hostname of the mail server
$mail->Host       = "hidden";

//Set the SMTP port number - likely to be 25, 465 or 587
$mail->Port       = 25;

//Whether to use SMTP authentication
$mail->SMTPAuth   = true;

//Username to use for SMTP authentication
$mail->Username   = $from;

//Password to use for SMTP authentication
$mail->Password   = "*******";

//Set who the message is to be sent from
$mail->SetFrom($from, $first_name.' '.$last_name);

//Set an alternative reply-to address
//$mail->AddReplyTo('replyto@example.com','First Last');
//Set who the message is to be sent to
$mail->AddAddress($to, $toName);

//Set the subject line
$mail->Subject = $subj;

//Read an HTML message body from an external file, convert referenced images to embedded, convert HTML into a basic plain-text alternative body
$mail->Body = $msg;

//Replace the plain text body with one created manually
$mail->AltBody = 'This is a plain-text message body';

//Attach an image file
//$mail->AddAttachment($file);
$mail->AddAttachment($_FILES['file']['tmp_name'], $_FILES['file']['name']);

//Send the message, check for errors
if(!$mail->Send()) {
  echo "<script>alert('Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo."')</script>";
} else {
  echo "<script>alert('Your request has been submitted. We will contact you soon.')</script>";
  Header('Location: main.php');
}
?>

This is the simple code to send email to any one with attachment.

If you want more option in attachment like name, MIME and file type use it like this.

$mail->AddAttachment($path, $name, $encoding, $type); // advance parameters for attachment.

I hope this tutorial will help you to send email with attachment using phpmailer in PHP.

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