Yii 2 Call to a member function saveAs() on string - email

Question

new to Yii and I am getting this error on a Send Email page. The string in question is the path to the attachment and the attachment name and i am presuming that the saveAs function would expect a string. Any ideas what i am missing?
The form:
<?php
use yii\helpers\Html;
use yii\widgets\ActiveForm;
/* #var $this yii\web\View */
/* #var $model app\models\emails */
/* #var $form yii\widgets\ActiveForm */
?>
<div class="emails-form">
<?php $form = ActiveForm::begin(['options' => ['enctype' => 'multipart/form-data']]); ?>
<?= $form->field($model, 'reciever_name')->textInput(['maxlength' => 50]) ?>
<?= $form->field($model, 'receiver_email')->textInput(['maxlength' => 200]) ?>
<?= $form->field($model, 'subject')->textInput(['maxlength' => 255]) ?>
<?= $form->field($model, 'content')->textarea(['rows' => 6]) ?>
<?= $form->field($model, 'attachment')->fileInput(['maxlength' => 255]) ?>
<div class="form-group">
<?= Html::submitButton('Save', ['class' => 'btn btn-success']) ?>
</div>
<?php ActiveForm::end(); ?>
</div>
and the controller:
public function actionCreate()
{
$model = new emails();
if ($model->load(Yii::$app->request->post())) {
// upload the attachment
$model->attachment = UploadedFile::getInstance($model, 'attachment');
if($model->attachment)
{
parent::init();
$time = time();
//$model->attachment->saveAs('attachments/'.$time.'.'.$model->attachment->extension);
//$model->attachment = 'attachments/'.$time.'.'.$model->attachment->extension;
}
if($model->attachment)
{
$value = Yii::$app->mailer->compose()
->setFrom(['my_email#gmail.com' => 'Paul'])
->setTo ($model->receiver_email)
->setSubject ($model->subject)
->setHtmlBody ($model->content);
foreach ($model->attachment as $file) {
//$filename = 'attachments/'.$time.'.'.$model->attachment->extension;
$filename = 'attachments/file.jpg';
//var_dump($filename);die();
$file->saveAs($filename);
$value->attach('attachments/file.jpg');
//$value->attach('attachments/'.$time.'.'.$model->attachment->extension);
}
$value->send();
}else{
$value = Yii::$app->mailer->compose()
->setFrom(['my_email#gmail.com' => 'Paul'])
->setTo($model->receiver_email)
->setSubject($model->subject)
->setHtmlBody($model->content)
->send();
}
$model->save();
return $this->redirect(['view', 'id' => $model->id]);
}
return $this->render('create', [
'model' => $model,
]);
}
I have tried absolute paths as well as dymanic paths, but all has the same output, i am stuck

Answer 1

Save as() function require the actual path. So that is issue. Please make sure your path should be correct and accessible.