How to Add Email Attachments to your ChronoForms

Here's a great way to add email attachments to your Chronoforms in Joomla v1.5. Place this code in your, "On Submit code - BEFORE sending email:" under the FORM CODE tab:

<?php
$MyForm =& CFChronoForm::getInstance('Your_Form_Name');//Replace with Your Form name
$form_id = $MyForm->formrow->id;
$MyUploads =& CFUploads::getInstance($form_id);
$MyUploads->attachments = array(JPATH_SITE.DS.'images'.DS.'stories'.DS.'Your_Folder_Name'.DS.'Your_File_Name');
?>

The array is the absolute path to the file.

In Joomla 1.5, the default location is most commonly, "images/stories/Your_Folder_Name/Your_File_Name.jpg" for example.

You could also use the absolute path for your Joomla 1.5 which can be found in the admin Global Configurations under System. You can view the absolute path used for your logs file.

The code for that would be:

<?php
$MyForm =& CFChronoForm::getInstance('Your_Form_Name');//Replace with Your Form name
$form_id = $MyForm->formrow->id;
$MyUploads =& CFUploads::getInstance($form_id);
$MyUploads->attachments [] = '/your_absolute_path/images/stories/your_folder/your_file';
?>

Finally, make sure "Enable Attachments" is set to "YES" in your Email Properties under the "Setup Email" tab.

You can now attach documents or images to your user's email address (Dynamic To) using ChronoForms! Sweet!

I really wonder why nobody already thanked you for this posting! This is awesome!

I recently needed to create a ChonoForm for a client of mine where an XML file is generated and sent by email. This is exactly the piece of code I was looking for all the time.

So thank you very much for sharing!🙂

Cheers,
Eric

Hello and thank you for this post. I have a form with 4 Checkboxes (each box for a different info pdf document). So i have 4 Attachment-PDFs that i want so send to the User. But i want to send only that one (or two or threee ...) that was checked before in the Form. Do you know how i can realize that?

Hi misfit,

There was a thread about this a few weeks ago - if you search here on attachments you should find it.

Bob

Hi Bob, thanks for your reply. i searched 26 pages of the searchresult ("attachments") without success. perhaps i'm to blind to find the right post. can you give me a little hint where i can find it? that would be great. sorry, i really tried to find it for 1 1/2 hour (the whole match Niederlande vs. Uruguay) but find no solution.

Is there a maximum filesize? I am trying to add an attachement and with a small file, there is no issue but with a 500kb pdf the attachement does not send.

Any help? I am using the above method.

Hi baljee,

There is no limit to the attachment size in ChronoForms and I would not expect a 500kb file to cause any problems. Please double-check that you have the file name and path correct.

Bob

Would this also work for exporting a csv file?