WP attachment from form without uploading file to filemanager

Question

From the form through the wp_mail function, I am trying to send an email with an attachment without uploading the file to the file manager. I get an email with the attachment. But the attachment name is incorrect and there is no file type. Please help for this.

This is an HTML form.

<form action="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">
    <table>
        <input type="file" name="Attached">
        <input type="Submit" name="Submit">
    </table>
</form>

There is my php code

if (isset($_POST['Submit'])) {
    $attachments = $_FILES['Attached']['tmp_name'];

    $recipients = "[e-mail]";
    $SenderName = get_bloginfo('name');
    $SenderEmail = "[e-mail]";
    $body   = "How are you what are you doing now. bla bla bla";

    $recipients = array($to);
    $headers[] = "From: $SenderName <$SenderEmail>" . "\r\n";
    $headers[] = "Content-Type: text/html";
    $subj = "This is mail subject";
    $SendMail   = wp_mail( $recipients, $subj, $body, $headers, $attachments );
}

Answer 1

Well, I had to come up with a workaround for this

What i did is

• Upload the file to the server
• email with wp mail
• upon successful email or do not cancel the uploaded image

1. Upload the file to the server

    /*image upload */
/* GET File Variables */
$target_dir = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']. "/uploads/";
$image_name = $_FILES['YOUR_IMAGE']['name'];
$target_file = $target_dir . basename($_FILES['YOUR_IMAGE']['name']);
$uploadOk = 1;
$imageFileType = strtolower(pathinfo($target_file,PATHINFO_EXTENSION));
// Check if image file is a actual image or fake image

$check = getimagesize($_FILES["YOUR_IMAGE"]["tmp_name"]);
if($check !== false) {
    echo "File is an image - " . $check["mime"] . ".";
    $uploadOk = 1;
} else {
    echo "File is not an image.";
    $uploadOk = 0;
}


// Check file size
if ($_FILES["YOUR_IMAGE"]["size"] > 500000) {
    echo "Sorry, your file is too large.";
    $uploadOk = 0;
}
// Allow certain file formats
if($imageFileType != "jpg" && $imageFileType != "png" && $imageFileType != "jpeg"
    && $imageFileType != "gif" ) {
    echo "Sorry, only JPG, JPEG, PNG & GIF files are allowed.";
    $uploadOk = 0;
}
// Check if $uploadOk is set to 0 by an error
if ($uploadOk == 0) {
    echo "Sorry, your file was not uploaded.";
    // if everything is ok, try to upload file
} else {
    if (move_uploaded_file($_FILES["YOUR_IMAGE"]["tmp_name"], $target_file)) {
        echo "The file ". basename( $_FILES["YOUR_IMAGE"]["name"]). " has been uploaded.";
    } else {
        echo "Sorry, there was an error uploading your file.";
    }
}

$attachment = array($target_file);

2.email with wp mail

    $to = $Email; // put your email here
        $headers = array('Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8','From:' . $name . '<' . $fromEmail . '>');

        // $headers = 'From:' . $name . '<' . $studentEmail . '>' . "\r\n"; // put user email here or duplicate your email
        $subject = 'Apply Online Form';

        if (wp_mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers, $attachment ) === false) {
            echo "Error";
             unlink($target_file);
        } else {
             unlink($target_file);
            echo "<h3> Mail Sent Successfully</h3>";
        }

3.In successful email or do not cancel the uploaded image

    unlink($target_file);