Sending emails with attachments from Joomla 1.5 components

The JFactory::getMailer() function allows you to send a message to an email with attachments that are passed to the function in the $files array

• function send($param,$files)
• {
• $dir = JFactory::getConfig()->getValue('tmp_path').'/';
• $mailer =& JFactory::getMailer();
• $mailer->setSender(array($this->config->_get('contact.email'),$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']));
• $mailer->addRecipient($this->get($param['id'])->name.'get($param['id'])->email.'>');
• $mailer->setSubject('Message with multiple attachments');
• $mailer->setBody('This message must be sent with multiple attachments!');
• foreach($files as $key=>$file)
• {
• move_uploaded_file($file['tmp_name'],$dir.$file['name']);
• $array[$key] = $dir.$file['name'];
• }
• $mailer->addAttachment($array);
• $send =& $mailer->Send();
• foreach($array as $file)
• @unlink($file);
• return ($send) ?true :false;
• }

where,

• $param - An array of objects from which to retrieve the recipient's name and address
• $files - An array of nested files, obtained from the $_FILES superglobal array
• JFactory::getConfig()->getValue('tmp_path').'/' - path to folder where attachments are located
• $this->config->_get('contact.email') - Sender address
• $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] - Sender name
• $this->get($param['id'])->name - The recipient's name
• $this->get($param['id'])->email - Recipient's address