Help with Swift Mailer for Beginner

[phpnewbie08]

Hi, I have done some research and reading and it sounds like swiftmailer is what I need. However, I can't understand the documentation that is provided in the swiftmailer website. Can someone please give an example of a simple for with a few fields such as name, email, and attachments in the swiftmailer 4.3.0 so I can take it from there? I don't need the form page just the processing page will be great. If not please point me to a site that will have tutorial/sample that have complete from beginning to end code. Thx.

[Jeff Mott]

require_once 'lib/swift_required.php';

// Create the Transport
$transport = Swift_SmtpTransport::newInstance('smtp.example.org', 25)
  ->setUsername('your username')
  ->setPassword('your password')
  ;

/*
You could alternatively use a different transport such as Sendmail or Mail:

// Sendmail
$transport = Swift_SendmailTransport::newInstance('/usr/sbin/sendmail -bs');

// Mail
$transport = Swift_MailTransport::newInstance();
*/

// Create the Mailer using your created Transport
$mailer = Swift_Mailer::newInstance($transport);

// Create a message
$message = Swift_Message::newInstance('Wonderful Subject')
  ->setFrom(array('john@doe.com' => 'John Doe'))
  ->setTo(array('receiver@domain.org', 'other@domain.org' => 'A name'))
  ->setBody('Here is the message itself')

  // Optionally add any attachments
  ->attach(Swift_Attachment::fromPath('my-document.pdf'))
  ;

// Send the message
$result = $mailer->send($message); 

Copy-pasted from the documentation. Just FYI.

[phpnewbie08]

Hi Jeff,

Thanks for the response. The attachment in the document looks like a document that is on my server. What I need is a uploaded file from the user and email it to me and needs to have multiple files. How is that done?

[Jeff Mott]

If the file has been uploaded, then it will in fact be on your server. It will be saved at $_FILES['form_control_name']['tmp_name']. (See http://www.php.net/manual/en/feature...ost-method.php)

You can attach as many files as you like by invoking ->attach() as many times as needed.

[phpnewbie08]

I think I get it now. But how do I validate those files are images before using swiftmailer to send it? I seen some php script to validate one file but how to validate multiple files? thx.