Add .docx, .pdf, .txt etc as attachment with PHPMailer - pdf

Question

I need to make possible for people to send their documents, be it .docx, .pdf or whatever from their computers, using PHPMailer. Of every solution I found, none of them worked for me. The error Could not access file: keeps showing up when using $mailer->ErrorInfo.
This is the code I have:
$mailer->From = $mail1;
$mailer->FromName = $name1;
$mailer->addAddress("gmfernandes#neo-e.com.br");
$mailer->Subject = $name1;
$mailer->ContentType = "Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8";
$mailer->msgHTML($template);
$mailer->addAttachment($_FILES['anexoTrabalho']['tmp_name'], $_FILES['anexoTrabalho']['name']);
Thank you in advance

Answer 1

You need to learn how to handle uploads correctly. Don't access $_FILES directly; use move_uploaded_file first. To save you the hassle of looking it all up, adapt the example provided with PHPMailer, the important bit of which I reproduce here:
$msg = '';
if (array_key_exists('userfile', $_FILES)) {
// First handle the upload
// Don't trust provided filename - same goes for MIME types
// See http://php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.php#114004 for more thorough upload validation
$uploadfile = tempnam(sys_get_temp_dir(), sha1($_FILES['userfile']['name']));
if (move_uploaded_file($_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'], $uploadfile)) {
// Upload handled successfully
// Now create a message
// This should be somewhere in your include_path
require 'PHPMailerAutoload.php';
$mail = new PHPMailer;
$mail->setFrom('from#example.com', 'First Last');
$mail->addAddress('whoto#example.com', 'John Doe');
$mail->Subject = 'PHPMailer file sender';
$mail->msgHTML("My message body");
// Attach the uploaded file
$mail->addAttachment($uploadfile, 'My uploaded file');
if (!$mail->send()) {
$msg = "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
$msg = "Message sent!";
}
} else {
$msg = 'Failed to move file to ' . $uploadfile;
}
}