Eform with file attach

I read the post in the eForm forum and did a seach but I’m still lost on how to create a form where the user can upload/attach a image. Is there a tutorial somewhere?

charlie-imac

charlie,

There are 2 main steps involved and it should work automagically.

1. Put this in the top of your form: enctype="multipart/form-data"
2. Download the latest phpmailer script (http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net/)

Another good starting point (tho you might’ve seen it already- ie good links) - http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,2122.0.html

Chuck

thanks! I have a couple of problems:

1. I do not want to install phpmailer in my php path. it is included in the php local path for my modx website. I edited the class.phpmailer.php file pointed to by eform.inc.php line 367 - manager/includes/controls/class.phpmailer.php. I can send email from the snippets/eform directory. How or what do I need to do to tell eform to use this class.phpmailer.php file. I’m getting email but it is from postfix on the mac and not phpmailer.

2. I have the following in my eFeedbackForm chunck
<p><input type="file" name="image" eform=" Your image:file:1"></p>
and <tr valign="top"><td>file/image:</td><td>[+image+]</td></tr> in my eFeedBackReport chunck. I never receiving a file. May have to do with one. I do get the email with the other fields.

charlie-imac

I dont think you would need the following in your feeback report:

<input type="file" name="image" eform=" Your image:file:1">

It should work without this, and you have to use the newest phpmailer (but i dont know how to direct you on your phpmailer questions).

Chuck

I don’t understand what you’re saying in your first question. Phpmailer comes installed with MODx and eForm expects it to be where MODx installs it.
Can you explain what you don’t want a bit more?

sorry for the confusion. thought i had to install phpmailer. went to the manager/includes/control directory and edited the class.phpmailer.php to use smtp and our mailer server with smtp autorization. wrote a small program to test phpmailer using the class.phpmailer.php file and works great. when i use eform get mail kicked back by postfix. would like for eform to work the same way as testfile.

testmail.php
<?php

require("class.phpmailer.php");

$mail = new PHPMailer();

$mail->From = "[email protected]";

$mail->FromName = "Mailer";

$mail->AddAddress("[email protected]", "charlie-imac");

$mail->WordWrap = 50; // set word wrap to 50 characters

$mail->IsHTML(true); // set email format to HTML

$mail->Subject = "Here is the subject";

$mail->Body = "This is the HTML message body <b>in bold!</b>";

$mail->AltBody = "This is the body in plain text for non-HTML mail clients";

if(!$mail->Send())

{
echo "Message could not be sent. <p>";

echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;

exit;
}
echo "Message has been sent";
?>

charlie-imac

So what’s the error from postfix?

In your eForm snippet call set the &debug parameter (values can be 1,2 or 3 with increasing debugging details). This will give you a list of the mail headers eForm provides to phpmailer. perhaps that will give you something to start from.

Never did get an error just never received a email. Ended up replacing lines 371-388 with code from my external file and everything worked. Never did figure out why the problem but it’s working now. go figure. thanks for the support.

charlie-imac