Question

I’m working with CakePHP and i need to send email with attachment here is my code

function sendAsEmail($data) {
    App::import('Component', 'Email');
    $user = $this->Sender->find('first', array(
        'conditions' => array('Sender.id' => $data['Message']['sender_id']),
    ));
    $Email = new EmailComponent();
    if ($this->useDbConfig == 'test') {
        $Email->delivery = 'debug';
    }

    $Email->sendAs = 'html';
    $Email->from = '[e-mail]';
    $Email->return = Configure::read('App.systemAdminEmail');
    $Email->bcc = array($data['Message']['recipient_text']);
    $Email->attachments = $data['Message']['attachments'];
    $Email->subject = $data['Message']['subject'];
    $content = $data['Message']['message'];
    $replyToAddress = isset($data['Message']['reply_to_address']) ? 
        (bool)$data['Message']['reply_to_address'] : false;
    if (!$replyToAddress) {
        $content .= "\n\n".__("Please do not reply to this email", true);
    } elseif (!empty($data['Message']['reply_to'])) {
        $Email->replyTo = $data['Message']['reply_to'];
    }
    if (Configure::read('App.systemAdminEmail')) {
        $Email->additionalParams = '-f'.Configure::read('App.systemAdminEmail');
    }

    $Email->send($content);
    return true;
}

i have my attachments on $data[‘Message’][‘attachments’] and still i cant see the attachment on email

any help?

Answer 1

$Email->attachments expects array containing the paths to the files to attach. Make shure you have in $data['Message']['attachments'] array of paths, and not only the filenames…