mail form with attachment "browse" for file

[fiuPikeOY]

Hello,

I'm trying to create a form that will be emailed, but I want it to have the capability to browse and attach a file to the email. Is that possible? Can someone point me in the right direction to learn how to do this.

Thanks in advance

 

[MorganGreylock]

First thing you'd need to do is add a file dialog, which is more HTML than cold fusion. Then once you submit the page, you take the contents of the file dialog, and use CFFILE to upload that file, then save it to your server somewhere. You have to pick a plethora of options, like how to handle existing filenames, etc, but thats basically how you would do something like that.

Also make sure that your form tag has the follow attribute:

ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data"

(ie <form name="blah" method="..." action="..." ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data">

Or it won't work.

Hope that helps.
MG

 

[fiuPikeOY]

But how do I send it from the server to someone's email?

Is there a completed example somewhere of this.

Thanks

 

[ecobb]

You use cfmail:

http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/tags-pta.htm#wp2355015

Hope This Helps!

Ecobb
Beer Consumption Analyst

"My work is a game, a very serious game." - M.C. Escher

 

[fiuPikeOY]

So then

"form action="emailSent.cfm" method="post" name="emailForm" id="emailForm" ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data onsubmit="return validateForm(this);"

and then I should handle all the actual sending of the email in emailSent.cfm

Correct?