Taking my first baby steps with PHP so please be gentle!

I have managed to get a form working which emails me data entered into an html form. I used php to take the info and email it to me. Everything works ok except for the file upload bit - I want users to be able to send a photo. When I get the email, I just get the file name of the photo, rather than the photo itself. I have put enctype="multipart/form-data" on the form and used the "file" type, but there must be something else I need to do?

I'm not bothered about validating for type of file, size or any of that (for now, anyway). Everything I google gives me tonnes of script full of validation code and I can't dig out the crucial part - how to get the darned photo!

Are you trying to attach the picture to the email, or just display the picture in the email?

either - as long as I can then download it to my pc, it doesn't matter (or does it?)

http://www.sitepoint.com/print/advanced-email-php/

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Originally Posted by chrishirst

http://www.sitepoint.com/print/advanced-email-php/

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thank for sharing information. It is usefull. I learn this tutorial more

You can also upload the image to your webserver and just as an <img src=""> to the email to display it

effektz. most email clients aren't happy with "external" objects because they can be used to track emails (i.e. spammers can use them to determine whether an email is valid before flooding your inbox with junk).
attaching an image us usually a better bet.

either way though, it's often a good idea to add a link that says something like "page not displaying properly? click here to view it in a web browser".

Thanks for the tips. Chris I read through that page and tried it out but didn't succeed

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