Email form with file submission

[darkpedro]

I'm looking for a web contact form that a user can also submit a file. For example, I'd like a user to submit a pic with name and info about the pic. The form should load that pic to a file hosting site, and send me the name, info and pic location.

Has anyone seen anything like this? If not, would it be hard (expensive) to develop?

Thanks

 

[bubbles]

Using:
send attachments in email with php - Google Search

I found:
PHP Classes - Class: Email with Attachment
Advanced email in PHP [PHP & MySQL Tutorials]
PHP Email Attachment v2 - UPDATED 09/11/06

So..
Just Fucking Google It

Edit: after reading your post again I realized you don't want to email it, but upload it... Which is just as easy to do.

 

[smaxor]

Very easy in PHP. It's just a form field to upload a file and then handle it with the script on the server side.

 

[chatmasta]

The form should load that pic to a file hosting site, and send me the name, info and pic location.

You mean an EXTERNAL filehosting site? So not yours?

 

[darkpedro]

You mean an EXTERNAL filehosting site? So not yours?

That was my idea. Send it somewhere like localhostr and pull what I need, rather than fill my server with something a user submits but I never use. Let someone else store shit for me.

 

[chatmasta]

Ok. I recently did something similar, and should impart some knowledge on you since it's so hard to come by. I'm assuming you know PHP, and at least some cURL, fairly well.

1. Use cURL
2. Uploading files is done in the form of multipart/form-data. When you post to the form, instead of sending curl a string like param1=val1&param2=val2&param3=val3 in $fields, just give it an array. cURL will know what to do.
3. The file field should be prefixed with a @ following the realpath to the file. So like $field['file'] = "@/home/miles/public_html/your-site/@image.gif";
4. Whether you like it or not, the user needs to upload a file to your site for this to work. Then your site needs to upload it to "localhostr" or whatever. This is the equivalent bandwidth of one upload and one download, respectively.

 

[darkpedro]

Sweet. Thanks very much. I'll have to get my programmer off my other project for a little bit and see if he can whip this up.

+rep if I've got it.

Ok. I recently did something similar, and should impart some knowledge on you since it's so hard to come by. I'm assuming you know PHP, and at least some cURL, fairly well.

1. Use cURL
2. Uploading files is done in the form of multipart/form-data. When you post to the form, instead of sending curl a string like param1=val1&param2=val2&param3=val3 in $fields, just give it an array. cURL will know what to do.
3. The file field should be prefixed with a @ following the realpath to the file. So like $field['file'] = "@/home/miles/public_html/your-site/@image.gif";
4. Whether you like it or not, the user needs to upload a file to your site for this to work. Then your site needs to upload it to "localhostr" or whatever. This is the equivalent bandwidth of one upload and one download, respectively.