Attachments with Formit

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paramaniac Reply #21, 12 years, 10 months ago

Yep noticed that. Have tried stripping back to only the required parameters, nothing is working!

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Henrik Nielsen Reply #22, 12 years, 10 months ago

@ paramaniac :

I had just tried your form and have no problems with the attachment.

The only thing I noticed are that the

<p>[[+contactAttachment]]</p>

placeholder are empty in the mail, but the file are attached correct.

Just an idea: Could it be a problem with the tmp folder on the server? Missing, wrong path setup, or maybe write protected ?

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rabimoe Reply #23, 12 years, 10 months ago

Henrik, that’s interesting that the same code works for you. I haven’t heard of a tmp folder, where can I find and configure it?

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Henrik Nielsen Reply #24, 12 years, 10 months ago

Well - that depends on the platform, hosting provider etc. But if you have access to the php.ini you can find the folder name - but maybe it’s faster to contact the hosting provider, and ask them to check the settings ;-)

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rabimoe Reply #25, 12 years, 10 months ago

Thanks Henrik, phpinfo says that upload_tmp_dir has no value. This should be set to a folder with write permissions, right? I’ll ask the provider to change that, as I don’t have access to php.ini.

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paramaniac Reply #26, 12 years, 10 months ago

Hi Henrik,

Thanks for the suggestion. I have just checked the system info and mine is saying the same as rabimoe, upload_tmp_dir: NO VALUE.

I will try installing MODx on another server which may have different php.ini settings and see if that works...

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paramaniac Reply #27, 12 years, 10 months ago

I have tried a fresh install of MODx and Formit on a different server, the upload_tmp_dir setting is also NO VALUE.
The file did not attach to the email.

Interestingly, another website on the same server that I built a while ago using MODx 1.0.2 and eForm 1.4.4.6, has a file upload, and this works fine.

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leekohlbradley Reply #28, 12 years, 10 months ago

Can someone update the instructions Wiki for formit to mention some of this stuff? Seems strictly going by what’s there won’t work for a lot of people... Many thanks!

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paramaniac Reply #29, 12 years, 10 months ago

Tried stripping right back to this, with no luck:

Template

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Formit Test</title>
</head>
<body>
  
    [[!FormIt?
  	&submitVar=`submit`
  	&hooks=`email`
	&emailTpl=`tplContactReport`
	&emailSubject=`Enquiry from the website`
	&emailTo=`XXXX`
    ]]
    
    <form action="[[~[[*id]]]]" method="post" id="contactForm" enctype="multipart/form-data">
      
      <label for="contactName">Full Name</label><br />
      <input type="text" name="contactName" id="contactName" />
      <br /><br />
	      
      <label for="contactEmail">Email</label><br />
      <input type="text" name="contactEmail" id="contactEmail" />
      <br /><br />
      
      <label for="contactPhone">Phone Number</label><br />
      <input type="text" name="contactPhone" id="contactPhone" />
      <br /><br />
      
      <label for="contactAttachment">CV Upload</label><br />
      <input type="file" name="contactAttachment" id="contactAttachment" value="[[!+fi.contactAttachment]]" />
      <br /><br />
      
      <label for="contactEnquiry">Enquiry</label><br />
      <textarea name="contactEnquiry" id="contactEnquiry"></textarea>
      <br /><br />
      
      <input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="Submit" />

    </form>
  
</body>
</html>

tplContactReport

<p><strong>Name:</strong> [[+contactName]]</p>
<p><strong>Email:</strong> [[+contactEmail]]</p>
<p><strong>Phone:</strong> [[+contactPhone]]</p>
<p><strong>Enquiry:</strong> [[+contactEnquiry]]</p>
<p>[[+contactAttachment]]</p>

The fact that the attachment filename is being pulled out successfully in tplContactReport makes me think that Formit is not treating the file as an attachment, merely a text string. As suggested, maybe this is because of a server setting? It is interesting that when Henrik Nielsen tried my code and it worked (attached the file to email), the <p>[[+contactAttachment]]</p> was left blank.

PS: created a bug report here: http://bugs.modx.com/issues/5132
Please add your experiences, suggestions.

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paramaniac Reply #30, 12 years, 10 months ago

Found the part of Formit that processes file fields, see below.
Does the file field have to have a specific name=""? It would seem it has to be called name="attachment" or name="attachment0"

  /* handle file fields */
        foreach ($fields as $k => $v) {
            $attachmentIndex = 0;
            if (is_array($v) && !empty($v['tmp_name']) && isset($v['error']) && $v['error'] == UPLOAD_ERR_OK) {
                if (empty($v['name'])) {
                    $v['name'] = 'attachment'.$attachmentIndex;
                }
                $this->modx->mail->mailer->AddAttachment($v['tmp_name'],$v['name'],'base64',!empty($v['type']) ? $v['type'] : 'application/octet-stream');
                $attachmentIndex++;
            }
        }