I have an odd problem, I am using PHPMailer to send an email with a few attachements. The attachments are uploaded to a form using jQuery which works fine and the files get uploaded. When I use IE and Firefox the emails is sent without a problem however when I use Google Chrome I get the error message "Could Not Instantiate Mail Funcition", which I thought was odd.
However when I remove the attachment part of the script the email sends fine in all browsers, therefore I would presume that the problem occurs when PHPMailer tries to attach the files to the form therefore I ran some tests to make sure that the files are definitely uploaded and do exist and those tests came back fine.
<?php
$attachment_location = "files/";
$attachments = $_POST["files"];
require_once('../includes/PHPMailer/class.phpmailer.php');
$mail = new PHPMailer(true);
try {
$mail ->isMail();
$body = '
<html>
<head>
<title>New Account Application Submitted</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
font-family: Arial;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>New Account Application Submitted</h1>
<p>A user completed the account application form please see the attached documents</p>
<p>Thank You</p>
</body>
</html>
';
$mail->SetFrom('[email protected]');
$address = "[email protected]";
$mail->AddAddress($address);
$mail->Subject = "New Account Application Submitted";
$mail->AltBody = "To view the message, please use an HTML compatible email viewer!";
$mail->MsgHTML($body);
foreach($attachments as $attachment){
if(file_exists($attachment_location . $attachment)){
$mail->AddAttachment($attachment_location . $attachment);
}else{
echo "File does not exist " . $attachment_location . $attachment . "<br>";
}
}
$mail->Send();
} catch (phpmailerException $e) {
echo $e->errorMessage();
} catch (Exception $e) {
echo $e->getMessage();
}
foreach($attachments as $attachment){
unlink($attachment_location . $attachment);
}
echo "Your application has been received<br> a member of our team will be in contact with you shortly";
?>
You're not handling your file uploads correctly. Read the PHP file uploading docs, and follow the send file upload example provided with PHPMailer.
Make sure that your form has an
enctype="multipart/form-data"attribute and that you include a<input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="30000" />input tag.Then use
move_uploaded_fileand don't try to use the contents of$_FILESdirectly.