Erratic attachments

  • André Brückner

    (@a4b7)


    6 years, 1 month ago

    I have a setup with Email-Before-Download and Contact-Form-7. Everything works fine except that some files do not show up as attachment. About 4 out of 16 files are affected.

    Through comparison and renaming I excluded as possible cause:
    – file size
    – file type (all pdf)
    – special characters in filename
    – length of filename

    Any ideas about the cause and how to further debug this?
    Thx, André

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  • Thread Starter André Brückner

    (@a4b7)

    6 years, 1 month ago

    Another insight: when logging the outgoing mails with plugin WP Mail Logging https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-mail-logging/ I can see that in case of an error the attachment is tried to be read from a wrong location:

    /dlm_uploads/1970/01/myfile.pdf

    instead of where it is really saved:

    /dlm_uploads/2019/05/myfile.pdf

    Some fallback to the beginning of unix calculation of times at work, I guess.

    Thread Starter André Brückner

    (@a4b7)

    6 years, 1 month ago

    Getting closer: there is a line $fileDate = date('Y/m', strtotime($fileDate)); converting a date string to a part of file path.

    Printed the variable before and after, and from the debug.log I can see:

    16. Mai 2019 converts to 1970/01
    13. September 2018 converts to 2018/09

    Both date strings are German, but the second one is identical to English. So the date strings that are different in German cause the error.

    Thread Starter André Brückner

    (@a4b7)

    6 years, 1 month ago

    The php function only accepts english date strings, see https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php

    Thank you, plugin developers.

    Don’t ask for my workaround. It’s ugly. It works. Still thinking about a proper fix.

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