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    <p>I am trying to build an automated email that will send attachments based on a variable that contains the relative path to a file using PHPmailer. The file path is stored in a table in MYSQL. I want to fetch the file path for each email sent using a while loop. Anyone ever done this? The emails get sent fine but without the attachments and the following error is printed:</p> <p>Could not access file: $filepath</p> <p>The lines of code in question are lines 11, 12 and 27. Thanks for your help.</p> <pre><code>1 require("PHPMailer_v5.1 2/class.phpmailer.php"); 2 while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)){ 3 $to = $row['email']; 4 $first_name = $row['first_name']; 5 $last_name = $row['last_name']; 6 $msg = $row['msg']; 7 $id = $row['id']; 8 9 //the code in question -lines 11 and 12: 10 11 $filepath= $row['filepath']; 12 $filename= $row['filename']; 13 14 $mailer = new PHPMailer(); 15 $mailer-&gt;IsSMTP(); 16 $mailer-&gt;Host = 'ssl://smtp.gmail.com:465'; 17 $mailer-&gt;SMTPAuth = TRUE; 18 $mailer-&gt;Username = 'xx'; // Sender's gmail address 19 $mailer-&gt;Password = 'xx'; // Sender's gmail password 20 $mailer-&gt;From = 'xx'; // Sender's email address 21 $mailer-&gt;FromName = 'xx'; // This is the from name in the email 22 $mailer-&gt;Body = "$msg"; 23 $mailer-&gt;Subject = "$id"; 24 $mailer-&gt;AddAddress('xx'); // Recipient 25 26 //Applying the variables fetched from the database - can this be done? 27 $mailer-&gt;AddAttachment('$filepath', '$filename'); 28 29 if(!$mailer-&gt;Send()) 30 //more code... </code></pre>
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