Adding attachments field to 'contact us' page

hi there.

i want to add a feature to the contact us page where the user can send an attachement, either word doc, pdf etc, with the message.

Firstly, will the "Additional Customers field" contribution allow me to do this?

If not can someone please point me in the right direction?

I have very little experience of php but im sure if some could sugguest (perhaps in bullet points) the steps i would need to take i may be able to work it out.

Thanks.

Hi.

Essentially i want users to be able to send attachments on the contact us page.

Im not a php programmer, however i have put together the following code.

The html form code for adding an attachment will look something like this...

<?php
$db_host = "localhost";
$db_user = "myuser";
$db_pwd = "mypw";
$db_name = "CV_DB";
mysql_connect($db_host, $db_user, $db_pwd);
mysql_select_db($db_name);
?>

<!--- onyl display form if it has not already been submited --->
<?php
if (!isset($_POST['submit'])) {
?> 

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
  <title>Upload your CV</title>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="stylesheet.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
</head>
<body>
   <form name="form1" method="post"
         action="process.php" enctype="multipart/form-data">
      <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">
           <tr> 
           <td>Name:</td>
         </tr>
         <tr>
        <td><input type="text" name="Name" maxlength="30" size="26" /></td>
         </tr>
          <tr>
           <td>Attatch:</td>
         </tr>
        <tr>
            <td><input type="file" name="a_file" size="16" /></td>
        </tr>
         <tr>
            <td>Message:</td>
         </tr>
         <tr>
            <td><textarea name="MsgBody" rows="6"></textarea></td>
         </tr>
         <tr>
            <td><input type="submit" name="Submit"
               value="Submit"></td>
         </tr>
      </table>
   </form>

   <?php
   $name = stripslashes($_POST['Name']);
   $a_file = $_POST['a_file'];
   $msg = "Message from: $from\n\n".stripslashes($_POST['MsgBody']);
   mysql_query("INSERT INTO `CV_uploads` (name,CV,msg) VALUES ('$name', ‘$a_file’, '$msg')");

echo "Thank you". $name . ". We will be in contact with you shortly";
?>
</body></html>
```Firslty, is there a way of embedding this code using ez-pages?
Secondly....

I am confused about how this information gets sent to my email address after it has been inserted into the database. 
How does it work for the contact us page?


I would really appreciate some help with this.

Thanks.

just looking at the code for the zen cart contact us page....

 - tpl_contact_us_default.php
<label class="inputLabel" for="email-address"><?php echo ENTRY_EMAIL; ?></label>
<?php echo zen_draw_input_field('email', ($error ? $_POST['email'] : $email), ' size="40" id="email-address"') . '<span class="alert">' . ENTRY_REQUIRED_SYMBOL . '</span>'; ?>
<br class="clearBoth" />

<label for="enquiry"><?php echo ENTRY_ENQUIRY . '<span class="alert">' . ENTRY_REQUIRED_SYMBOL . '</span>'; ?></label>
<?php echo zen_draw_textarea_field('enquiry', '30', '7', '', 'id="enquiry"'); ?>

as you can see the form field are drawn using functions such as...

zen_draw_input_field('email', ($error ? $_POST['email'] : $email), ' size="40" id="email-address"')
and....
zen_draw_textarea_field('enquiry', '30', '7', '', 'id="enquiry"')

Im guessing there isnt a function that deals with attachments.

So...
Can someone plese give me an indication of where i can find these functions?
Or...
Can i insert simple html form fields on this page and if so could someone tell me how to so this?

Im really really lost with this and dont seem to be getting any responses from my previous posts so please can someone help me out???? :frusty:

cheers.

ZenCart has an upload facility built in (via attributes) ...see thread below...especially Post Number 9
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=49716&highlight=uploads

Misty's pointing you in the logical direction. My question is: - why would you want a file-upload feature on the contact-us page?

hi.
schoolboy - My client wants users to be able to upload CV's when applying for jobs through the site.

misty - I had a breif read through that post. Will this work for the contact us page?

Unfortunately i cant test anything as i havent yet decided if zen-cart is the best option for this site.

Thanks guys.

You can do anything you want with Zen Cart, depending on your programming skill.
If it's uploading of files that you want, you can study the code used by the attributes-upload option, and model the same functionality in your contact-us page.
Emailing the attachments would be more complicated, but could be done, again with custom programming. You could just leave the files on your server somewhere and grab them when you plan to review the submitted CVs.
Or you could just post an email address for folks to submit their application+CV via email.

If Zen Cart is already running your site, and you are doing ecommerce with it, then it makes sense to stick with Zen Cart.
If you're not doing ecommerce, then maybe you don't need the power of Zen Cart on your site.

I've tried to do this but I only receive in the e-mail the path to the file on the client computer and not the file attached.
Need to know if someone can help me to programming in order to receive the file like and e-mail attachement or if someone can giving me directions in order to know which files I need to search in and programming on them in order to get this function, file attachement, work properly.
Thank you and sorry for my english I know it's not as good as I would desire it be.

I've found in functions_email.php file, the following code:
// process attachments
$zco_notifier->notify('NOTIFY_EMAIL_BEFORE_PROCESS_ATTACHMENTS');
// Note: $attachments_list array requires that the 'file' portion contains the full path to the file to be attached
if (EMAIL_ATTACHMENTS_ENABLED && zen_not_null($attachments_list) ) {
// if ($attachments_list == '') $attachments_list = array();
// while ( list($key, $value) = each($attachments_list)) {
// $mail->AddAttachment($value['file']); // add attachments

    $mail->AddAttachment($attachments_list['file']);          // add attachments
    //  $mail->AddAttachment("/tmp/image.jpg", "new.jpg");    // optional format if specifying filename

    //     } //endwhile attach_list
  } //endif attachments
  $zco_notifier->notify('NOTIFY_EMAIL_AFTER_PROCESS_ATTACHMENTS');

someone have an idea about wich code add to the contact_us or tpl_contact_us to make file attachement work??