How to Send Email with Attachment in PHP

In this article, we will explain to you how to send email with attachment in PHP. we can also use the PHP mail function to send emails with attachments, but here we are using the phpmailer function. if you want to install phpmailer then you can install it via the composer or you can also download via Github.

we will give a simple example of how to send Email with Attachment in PHP. so you can see the below example.

sometimes we use send email functionality such as sending invoices to send newsletters and contact forms etc.

In this example, we will create the form using the bootstrap. we have to pass the form attribute “multipart/form-data“ for the file upload. so we will take some fields to create the form and pass the form attribute “multipart/form-data“.

<?php
require 'PHPMailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php';
try {
	if(isset($_POST['btnSend'])) {
		$mail = new PHPMailer;
		
		if(empty($_POST["name"])){
			print 'Name is too short or empty!';
			exit;
		}
		if(!filter_var($_POST["email"], FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)){ //email validation
			print 'Please enter a valid email!';
			exit;
		}
		if(empty($_POST["subject"])){ //check emtpy subject
			print 'Subject is required';
			exit;
		}
		if(empty($_POST["message"])){ //check emtpy message
			print 'Too short message! Please enter something.';
			exit;
		}
		$sender_name    = filter_var($_POST["name"], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING); //capture sender name
		$sender_email   = filter_var($_POST["email"], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING); //capture sender email
		$subject        = filter_var($_POST["subject"], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
		$message        = filter_var($_POST["message"], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING); //capture message
	
	
		$mail->FromName   = $sender_name;
		$mail->AddAddress($sender_email);
		$mail->From     = "admin@gmail.com";		
		$mail->Subject  = $subject;
		
		$message_body =  "Message from $sender_name\n";
		$message_body .=  "------------------------------\n";
		$message_body .=  "$message\n";
		$message_body .=  "------------------------------\n";
		$message_body .=  "$sender_name\n";
		$message_body .=  "$sender_email\n";
		
		$body = preg_replace('/\\\\/','', $message_body);
		$mail->MsgHTML($body);		
		$mail->IsSendmail();
		$mail->AddReplyTo("admin@gmail.com");
		$mail->AltBody    = "To view the message, please use an HTML compatible email viewer!"; 
		$mail->WordWrap   = 80; 
		$mail->AddAttachment($_FILES['attachment']['tmp_name'], $_FILES['attachment']['name']);
		$mail->IsHTML(true);
		$mail->Send();
		echo 'The message has been sent.';
	}
} catch (phpmailerException $e) {
	echo $e->errorMessage();
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <title>How to Send Email with Attachment in PHP - XpertPhp</title>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.4.1/css/bootstrap.min.css">
  <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
  <script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.4.1/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
  <form method="post" enctype='multipart/form-data'>
  	<div class="form-group">
      <label for="name">Name:</label>
      <input type="text" class="form-control" id="name" placeholder="Enter Name" name="name">
    </div>
    <div class="form-group">
      <label for="email">Email:</label>
      <input type="email" class="form-control" id="email" placeholder="Enter email" name="email">
    </div>
    <div class="form-group">
      <label for="subject">Subject:</label>
      <input type="text" class="form-control" id="subject" placeholder="Enter Subject" name="subject">
    </div>
    <div class="form-group">
      <label for="message">Message :</label>
      <textarea class="form-control" id="message" name="message"></textarea>
    </div>
    <div class="form-group">
      <label for="attachment">Attachment :</label>
      <input type="file" class="form-control" id="attachment" name="attachment" />
    </div>
    <button type="submit" name="btnSend" class="btn btn-default">Send</button>
  </form>
</div>
</body>
</html>

<?php

require 'PHPMailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php';

try {

if(isset($_POST['btnSend'])) {

$mail = new PHPMailer;

if(empty($_POST["name"])){

print 'Name is too short or empty!';

exit;

}

if(!filter_var($_POST["email"], FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)){ //email validation

print 'Please enter a valid email!';

exit;

}

if(empty($_POST["subject"])){ //check emtpy subject

print 'Subject is required';

exit;

}

if(empty($_POST["message"])){ //check emtpy message

print 'Too short message! Please enter something.';

exit;

}

$sender_name = filter_var($_POST["name"], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING); //capture sender name

$sender_email = filter_var($_POST["email"], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING); //capture sender email

$subject = filter_var($_POST["subject"], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);

$message = filter_var($_POST["message"], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING); //capture message

$mail->FromName = $sender_name;

$mail->AddAddress($sender_email);

$mail->From = "admin@gmail.com";

$mail->Subject = $subject;

$message_body = "Message from $sender_name\n";

$message_body .= "------------------------------\n";

$message_body .= "$message\n";

$message_body .= "------------------------------\n";

$message_body .= "$sender_name\n";

$message_body .= "$sender_email\n";

$body = preg_replace('/\\\\/','', $message_body);

$mail->MsgHTML($body);

$mail->IsSendmail();

$mail->AddReplyTo("admin@gmail.com");

$mail->AltBody = "To view the message, please use an HTML compatible email viewer!";

$mail->WordWrap = 80;

$mail->AddAttachment($_FILES['attachment']['tmp_name'], $_FILES['attachment']['name']);

$mail->IsHTML(true);

$mail->Send();

echo 'The message has been sent.';

}

} catch (phpmailerException $e) {

echo $e->errorMessage();

}

<!DOCTYPE html>

<head>

<title>How to Send Email with Attachment in PHP - XpertPhp</title>

</head>

<body>

</div>

<label for="email">Email:</label>

</div>

<label for="subject">Subject:</label>

</div>

<label for="message">Message :</label>

</div>

<label for="attachment">Attachment :</label>

</div>

</form>

</div>

</body>

</html>