I want to email a PDF as an attachment that was created using FPDF. My code looks like this, but the attachment never comes through.
<?php require('lib/fpdf/fpdf.php'); $pdf = new FPDF('P', 'pt', array(500,233)); $pdf->AddFont('Georgiai','','georgiai.php'); $pdf->AddPage(); $pdf->Image('lib/fpdf/giftcertificate.jpg',0,0,500); $pdf->SetFont('georgiai','',16); $pdf->Cell(40,10,'Hello World!'); $doc = $pdf->Output('test.pdf', 'S'); //define the receiver of the email $to = 'myemail@example.com'; //define the subject of the email $subject = 'Test email with attachment'; //create a boundary string. It must be unique //so we use the MD5 algorithm to generate a random hash $random_hash = md5(date('r', time())); //define the headers we want passed. Note that they are separated with rn $headers = "From: reply@test.comrnReply-To: reply@test.com"; //add boundary string and mime type specification $headers .= "rnContent-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="PHP-mixed-".$random_hash."""; //read the atachment file contents into a string, //encode it with MIME base64, //and split it into smaller chunks $attachment = chunk_split(base64_encode(file_get_contents($doc))); //define the body of the message. ob_start(); //Turn on output buffering ?> --PHP-mixed-<?php echo $random_hash; ?> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>" --PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello World!!! This is simple text email message. --PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?> Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <h2>Hello World!</h2> <p>This is something with <b>HTML</b> formatting.</p> --PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>-- --PHP-mixed-<?php echo $random_hash; ?> Content-Type: application/zip; name="attachment.zip" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment <?php echo $attachment; ?> --PHP-mixed-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>-- <?php //copy current buffer contents into $message variable and delete current output buffer $message = ob_get_clean(); //send the email $mail_sent = @mail( $to, $subject, $message, $headers ); //if the message is sent successfully print "Mail sent". Otherwise print "Mail failed" echo $mail_sent ? "Mail sent" : "Mail failed"; ?>
Anyone familiar with doing this? I’m hoping to use the PHP mail() function.
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Answer
This ended up working for me:
<?php require('lib/fpdf/fpdf.php'); $pdf = new FPDF('P', 'pt', array(500,233)); $pdf->AddFont('Georgiai','','georgiai.php'); $pdf->AddPage(); $pdf->Image('lib/fpdf/image.jpg',0,0,500); $pdf->SetFont('georgiai','',16); $pdf->Cell(40,10,'Hello World!'); // email stuff (change data below) $to = "myemail@example.com"; $from = "me@example.com"; $subject = "send email with pdf attachment"; $message = "<p>Please see the attachment.</p>"; // a random hash will be necessary to send mixed content $separator = md5(time()); // carriage return type (we use a PHP end of line constant) $eol = PHP_EOL; // attachment name $filename = "test.pdf"; // encode data (puts attachment in proper format) $pdfdoc = $pdf->Output("", "S"); $attachment = chunk_split(base64_encode($pdfdoc)); // main header $headers = "From: ".$from.$eol; $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0".$eol; $headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="".$separator."""; // no more headers after this, we start the body! // $body = "--".$separator.$eol; $body .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit".$eol.$eol; $body .= "This is a MIME encoded message.".$eol; // message $body .= "--".$separator.$eol; $body .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"".$eol; $body .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit".$eol.$eol; $body .= $message.$eol; // attachment $body .= "--".$separator.$eol; $body .= "Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="".$filename.""".$eol; $body .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64".$eol; $body .= "Content-Disposition: attachment".$eol.$eol; $body .= $attachment.$eol; $body .= "--".$separator."--"; // send message mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers); ?>