Creating excel report with php and sending by email - php

Question

I have this php that generates an excel file for me with php reading from a database. I would like to be able to email the excel (as an attachment). The problem is that I can only get the file download but when I get the email there is no attachment
Could you help me?
When the email arrives I have only this result, without any attachment (excel file):
--90215ae30d47b3d98d4505ee5035e618
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
This is a MIME encoded message.
--90215ae30d47b3d98d4505ee5035e618
Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
--90215ae30d47b3d98d4505ee5035e618
Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="test.xls"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="test.xls"
MQkwMzAyMDE4NTIzCU1HTkdQUDg0QTE4QzM1MVcJTUFHTkFOTyBESSBTQU4gTElPICAgICAgICAg
ICAgICAgICAgICAgIAlHSVVTRVBQRSAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgCQ==
--90215ae30d47b3d98d4505ee5035e618--
<?php
header("Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-excel");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=test.xls");
header("Pragma: no-cache");
header("Expires: 0");
$db2 = db2_connect();
$sep = "\t";
echo "Pr0001 \t Cdclie \t CodFis \t \n ";
$data = "Select t1.Pr0001, t2.CDCLIE, t1.CODFIS FROM MYLIB.ANAGR001F AS t1";
$result = db2_exec($db2, $data);
while ($row = db2_fetch_both($result)) {
$schema_insert = "";
$schema_insert .= "$row[0]".$sep;
$schema_insert .= "$row[1]".$sep;
$schema_insert .= "$row[2]".$sep;
$schema_insert = str_replace($sep."$", "", $schema_insert);
$schema_insert = preg_replace("/\r\n|\n\r|\n|\r/", " ", $schema_insert);
print(trim(str_replace(',', " ", $schema_insert)));
print "\n";
}
file_put_contents('test.xls', $schema_insert);
$to = "yanez25#libero.it";
$from = "robert_tr13#libero.it";
$subject = "test mail";
$separator = md5(date('r', time()));
// carriage return type (we use a PHP end of line constant)
$eol = PHP_EOL;
// attachment name
$filename = "test.xls";
$attachment = chunk_split(base64_encode(file_get_contents('test.xls')));
// main header
$headers = "From: ".$from.$eol;
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0".$eol;
$headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"".$separator."\"";
$body = "--".$separator.$eol;
$headers .= "Content-type:text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1".$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;
// attachment
$body .= "--".$separator.$eol;
$body .= "Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name=\"".$filename."\"".$eol;
$body .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64".$eol;
$body .= "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"".$filename."\"".$eol.$eol;
$body .= $attachment.$eol;
$body .= "--".$separator."--";
if (mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers)) {
echo "mail send ... OK";
} else {
echo "mail send ... ERROR";
}
?>

Answer 1

There is no need to reinvent the wheel when you have robust PHP libraries that do this for you.
Using PHPMailer which is one of the popular. You can send string attachment by adding it like so:
$mail->AddStringAttachment($attachment,$filename,$encoding,$type);
$encoding and $type are optional
You can check here for the full configuration and settings and if you feel you need to be part of the invention, you can either contribute code or funding.