attaching files with email class

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attaching files with email class - El Forum - 07-16-2012

[eluser]brian88[/eluser]
The email debugger tells me the email sends but cannot find the file path for the attached file.

Is it possible for users to attach a file directly from their computer? or do I have to upload the file on my host then attach it?

controller

Code:

function sendEmail() {

  $this->load->library('email');

  $this->email->from( $this->input->post('email'), $this->input->post('name'));

  $this->email->to('[email protected]');

  $this->email->subject('test');

  $this->email->message( $this->input->post('comments') );

  $this->email->attach($this->input->post('resume'));

  $this->email->send();

  //redirect('thanks');

  echo $this->email->print_debugger();

} // end function

view

Code:
&lt;form action="&lt;?php echo base_url('main/sendEmail'); ?&gt;" method="post"&gt;

      <ul>

       <li>

        <label for="name">Full Name:</label>

        &lt;input type="text" id="name" name="name" /&gt;

       </li>

       <li>

        <label for="email">Email:</label>

        &lt;input type="email" id="email" name="email" /&gt;

       </li>

       <li>

        <label for="resume">Upload Resume:</label>

        &lt;input type="file" id="resume" name="resume" /&gt;

       </li>

       <li>

        <label for="comments">Comments:</label>

        &lt;textarea id="comments" name="comments" rows="5" cols="45"&gt;&lt;/textarea>

       </li>

       <li>

        &lt;input id="submit" type="submit" value="Submit" /&gt;

       </li>

      </ul>&lt;!-- ul End --&gt;

&lt;/form&gt;&lt;!-- Form End --&gt;

attaching files with email class - El Forum - 07-17-2012

[eluser]brian88[/eluser]
Has anyone had success attaching files with the email class?

attaching files with email class - El Forum - 07-17-2012

[eluser]CroNiX[/eluser]

Code:
$this->email->attach($this->input->post('resume'));

Files aren't accessible via $_POST.

You'll have to follow the process for saving an uploaded file, and then attaching that saved file by supplying the full saved file path (saved on your server), to the email::attach() method.