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[seo_bright]

I am currently working on code in ASP Access for sending mail with the customer feedfack. One of the field is a File type input field where user browses locally and sends as attachment along with the mail. I checked many sites. Code for attaching it is working fine if its fixed like a url.

The code is
mailobj.AddAttachment "http://www.anysite.c...news/news.html" is working fine

but suppose I have to attach the file stored in the folder news dynamically based on imput from form it shows error as unable to locate file

I tried something like:

mailobj.AddAttachment "http://www.anysite.com/news/" & thefilenameVar

but shows error in that line. Plz help as I am new to ASP and coding.

[1dmf]

if you alert/msgbox or what ever asp for display is, the variable 'thefilenameVar' does it contain what you expect?

Also would the path to a file ASP is trying to attach be a file path not a URL ?

i.e. C:\websites\myweb\news\filename

that's what it would be if I was using perl to attach a file to an email.

Edited by 1dmf, 17 September 2008 - 09:09 AM.

[Katy]

I think you need to use Server.MapPath to find the physical location of the file.

Example:

You're running the mail script from www.mysite.com/sendmail.asp

The file you want to attach is in www.mysite.com/news/ [any file name]

To attach it I think you need to do the following:

CODE

mailobj.AddAttachment Server.MapPath("news/"&theFileName)

But, as 1DMF says, you may need to check that the file name is being passed correctly to your variable to do this, above the line that's giving you the error put:

CODE

Response.Write "thefilenameVar = "&thefilenameVar
Response.END

That will write out what's in your variable and stop the script from executing so you can have a look at it.

[seo_bright]

Hi thank you guys for your prompt responses. I tried something like what u have provided but keep getting error as Path not found , so I tried this way
.AddAttachment Server.MapPath(".") & "\news\" & theFileName.

It worked both in local and online.

[1dmf]

The error may be because the path dilemiter in Katy's example was the wrong way round?

forward slash vs backslash?

[Katy]

1DMF - You're probably right - I always seem to get them confused.

After 15 years you would have thought I'd remember by now

[1dmf]

hey no worries, i'm sure we all do it all the time, especially if you flit between URL's / Windows format and *nix , I never know whether i'm forwards (coming) or backwards (going)