Send uploaded files via Email

The CMS Questions
1

I have a built an upload using the cookbook recipe. No I want to send link to the (multiple) files via email or attach them to an email.

Is it possible to use the kirby email function for this?

```
$kirby->email([
  'from' => 'welcome@supercompany.com',
  'to' => 'someone@gmail.com',
  'subject' => 'Welcome!',
  'body' => 'Here are some attachments',
  'attachments' => [
    $page->file('somefile.jpg'),
    $page->file('someotherfile.jpg')
  ]
]);
```
2

Yes, that should work.

3

I’m struggeling with the syntax of the attachments. Is there an example

  • how to add multiple attachments in relation to the number of the uploaded files
  • and how to use the path to the uploaded file in the mail syntax?
4

Your code looks like you’ve taken it from the docs, right?

Is mail sent at all without attachments?

5

Yes, the code is the exemple from the docs. I have combined it with the controller for uploading files to the panel. Both works: uploading files to a storage-page and sending mails. But i would like to send the files also with the mail.

6

What exactly is the problem? What you need to do is store all uploaded files into a array, then add that array as attachment like in the code snippet above.

7

Sorry, I just don’t know, how to loop through the array inside of the attachment-data.

8 
// define an empty array before you go into the loop
$attachments = [];
// within the loop, after `$file = `
// add the file to the array

$attachments[] = $file;

//then after all files are uploaded, send mail

$kirby->email([
  'from' => 'welcome@supercompany.com',
  'to' => 'someone@gmail.com',
  'subject' => 'Welcome!',
  'body' => 'Here are some attachments',
  'attachments' => $attachments;
]);
9

If you’re interested I used Uniform on a recent project to archive the same thing.

<?php

use Uniform\Form;
use Uniform\Actions\SaveFormData;

return function ($kirby)
{   
    $form = new Form([
        'email' => [
            'rules' => ['required', 'email'],
            'message' => 'Please enter a valid email address',
        ],
        'resume' => [
            'rules' => [
                'file',
                'mime' => ['application/pdf'],
                'filesize' => 5000,
            ],
            'message' => [
                'Please choose a file.',
                'Please choose a PDF.',
                'Please choose a file that is smaller than 5 MB.',
            ],
        ],
        'captcha' => [
            'rules' => ['required', 'num'],
            'message' => 'Please fill in the captcha field',
        ],
    ]);

    if ($kirby->request()->is('POST')) {     
        $email = [
            'to' => 'website@example.com',
            'from' => 'test@example.com',
            'subject' => 'New contact form submission',
            'replyTo' => $form->data('email'),
            'template' => 'contact',
        ];

        $resume = $form->data('resume');
        $form->forget('resume');
        if (! empty($resume['tmp_name'])) {
            $email['attachments'][] = renameUploadedFile($resume);
        }
        
        $form
            ->honeypotGuard()
            ->calcGuard(['field' => 'captcha'])
            ->emailAction($email)
            ->logAction([
                'file' => kirby()->roots()->site().'/messages.log'
            ]);
    }

    return compact('form');
};

And in the config.php I set following:

<?php

return [
    'email' => [
        'transport' => [
            'type' => 'smtp',
            'host' => 'smtp.server.goes.here',
            'port' => 465,
            'security' => 'tls',
            'auth' => true,
            'username' => 'username',
            'password' => 'password',
        ],
    ],

Then I created a plugin where I defined this function:

if (! function_exists('renameUploadedFile')) {
    function renameUploadedFile(array $file): string {
        $tmp = pathinfo($file['tmp_name']);
        $newFilename = $tmp['dirname'].'/'.$file['name'];

        if (rename($file['tmp_name'], $newFilename)) {
            return $newFilename;
        }
        return $file['tmp_name'];
    }
}
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10

@flokuek There seems to be something missing though, because where is the function renameUploadedFile() defined?

11

I edited my post above :slight_smile:

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12

Thank you. I didn’t thought about such a simple syntax inside the email-directive. Works fine!

13

Thank you, I will have a look at it too.

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