Re: Uploading and creating an email attachment, WITHOUT a DB on server
| From: | Christopher Svanefalk | Date: | Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:41:20 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Uploading and creating an email attachment, WITHOUT a DB on server | ||
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Addendum: what standard functions could I invoke to accomplish the file
system view part?
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Christopher Svanefalk <
christopher.svanefalk@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am rather green to PHP and web programming in general, and would just
> like some pointers how to accomplish the following.
>
> I have a webpage on a remote host, which supports PHP but does not have a
> DB installed. Here, I have a form where the user can input personal
> credentials, which are then processed and sent as an email message to me
> from the server. This part work so far.
>
> I want to do the following: the user should be able to upload his/her CV.
> To do so, I need the following:
> 1) A way for the user to open a conventional file system view to select
> the file to upload
> 2) A way to take this file, add it as an attachment to the mail created in
> the form, and finally send the mail + attachment to my mail.
>
> Is this possible to do without intermediary storage in a DB? I.e. is it
> possible just to pass the attachment directly from working memory to the
> function for sending email? Or does it have to go intermediare storage?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help!
>
> --
> Best,
>
> Christopher Svanefalk
>
>
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Best,
Christopher Svanefalk