PHP Send To Outlook PDF file

Question

i'm used fpdf for create pdf with php. everything are ok. but i want to send pdf file to outlook.

I'm using $pdf->Output('file.pdf','D');

it's running. I want to attachment this file to microsoft outlook.

How i can this ?

Answer 1

Something you can do is save the file to a temporary location on the server, and then use something like PHPMailer to attach that saved file to the email. PHPMailer is a lot easier to use for attachments than PHP's built-in mail function.

You can temporarily store your PDF file a number of ways. Here's one:

$tempfilename = time().'.pdf';
$pdf->Output($tempfilename,'F');

Then in PHPMailer, you can attach it as such:

$mail->addAttachment($tempfilename);

And then after you are done, you can remove the temporary file from the server.

unlink($tempfilename);

If PHPMailer is not possible to use for your situation for whatever reason, you can use PHP's built-in mail function. If you're working from a fresh file or a small file where the cost of adding PHPMailer is relatively small, do that if you can. Otherwise, you may try adding code like this to your $headers. Adapted from an answer on using mail to send attachments:

//  Generate a random hash to send mixed content
$sep = md5(time());

//  End of line
$eol = PHP_EOL;

//  Content of file
$content = file_get_contents($tempfilename);
$content = chunk_split(base64_encode($content));

//  Add attachment to headers
$headers .= "--" . $sep . $eol;
$headers .= "Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name=\"" . $tempfilename . "\"" . $eol;
$headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64" . $eol;
$headers .= "Content-Disposition: attachment" . $eol . $eol;
$headers .= $content . $eol . $eol;
$headers .= "--" . $sep . "--";