I am trying to attach a file using the PHPMailer's addStringAttachment method.
I generated the pdf from TCPDF using:
$b64_enc_doc = $pdf->Output($file_name, 'E');
Then inside of the script to send the email, I have
...
$mail->addStringAttachment($b64_enc_doc, $file_name)
However, the PDF attachment is corrupted when I try opening it.
I tried debugging the output of the PDF generated from TCPDF and it looks something similar to this:
Content-Type: application/pdf;
name="file.pdf"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename="file.pdf"
JVBERi0xLjcKJeLjz9MKMjEgMCBvYmoKPDwgL1R5cGUgL1BhZ2UgL1BhcmVudCAxIDAgUiAvTGFz
dE1vZGlmaWVkIChEOjIwMjIwMTA0MTMwODQ2KzAwJzAwJykgL1Jlc291cmNlcyAyIDAgUiAvTWVk
aWFCb3ggWzAuMDAwMDAwIDAuMDAwMDAwIDU5NS4yNzYwMDAgODQxLjg5MDAwMF0gL0Nyb3BCb3gg
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LjAwMDAwMCA1OTUuMjc2MDAwIDg0MS44OTAwMDBdIC9BcnRCb3ggWzAuMDAwMDAwIDAuMDAwMDAw
IDU5NS4yNzYwMDAgODQxL...
Please I do not want to save the file to the server but send the file straight to the user's email. Please help.
Thanks!
You don't show the code you're using, but that string is a fragment of an email message, not a PDF binary PDF string as it should be.
Your code should be along the lines of (I don't remember tcpdf's syntax offhand):
//Render the PDF to a string in memory
$pdf = $tcpdf->output('S');
$mail->addStringAttachment($pdf, 'file.pdf');
PHPMailer will take care of the rest.
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i am using phpmailer and fpdf, to create pdf and send it by email.
I am using this lines for output and attach the file.
$pdfdoc = $pdf->Output('', 'S');
...
$mail->addStringAttachment($pdfdoc, 'my-doc.pdf');
I would like to ask if it is possible to attach file without saving it first to disk?
I'm using Pears mail mime to send out emails with attachments in php.
http://pear.php.net/package/Mail_Mime/redirected
It seems Outlook is renaming PDF's to "Untitled..." but it works correctly for gmail, hotmail etc.
Prior to this problem I had another problem where Outlook would not show the file as PDF and attach it as text file unless I specifically tell the mime addAttachment the file type
see the code here:
if (endsWith($file,".pdf")) {
$mime->addAttachment($file,'application/pdf',basename($file));
}
else {
$mime->addAttachment($file);
}
You can see above I've also tried setting the 3rd argument of addAttachment to set the filename, but that hasn't worked either.
Outlook does not rename other file types so it's a catch 22 either set no filetype and have Outlook send as txt file or set the filetype and Outlook renames the files to 'Untitled'
ok found out that Outlook doesn't seem to like long filenames, shortening the filename works.
Pear mime sends a long filename header broken up into parts like this:
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Type: application/pdf;
name*0*=US-ASCII''THIDSO5749_010.901%20-%2013.95505142_GARUDA%20RETARGETI;
name*1*=NG%20CPA%20CAMPAIGN_PT%20GARUDA%20INDONESIA%20%28PERSERO%29%20TBK;
name*2*=._NOV2013.pdf
Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename*0*=US-ASCII''THIDSO5749_010.901%20-%2013.95505142_GARUDA%20RETAR;
filename*1*=GETING%20CPA%20CAMPAIGN_PT%20GARUDA%20INDONESIA%20%28PERSERO;
filename*2*=%29%20TBK._NOV2013.pdf;
size=68426
Outlook can't handle this but it can handle the format:
Content-Type: application/pdf;name="a long filename.....pdf"
Unfortunately it seems Pear mime can't send this format without editing the core code of mime.php
So I'm just sending shorter filenames for now
I already tried several solutions, the closest (for me) should look like this:
$file = $pdf->Output('', 'E');
$message->attach(Swift_Attachment::newInstance($file, 'name.pdf', 'application/pdf'));
$pdf is an instance of TCPDF and $message is an instance of Swift_Message.
Using above the email is being sent ok, file is attached but when I try to open it I get the error message that file is corrupted or badly encoded.
My question is: how to send pdf generated by TCPDF as Swiftmailer attachment without saving the file to server and deleting it after sending the email. Here is the link to the TCPDF output method documentation, maybe somebody can see something I have missed.
I am using something like this and it is working. For the PDF content I am using one of the simplest examples on the PDF library.
[...]
$pdf_as_string = $pdf->Output('', 'S'); // $pdf is a TCPDF instance
[...]
$transport = Swift_MailTransport::newInstance(); // using php mail function
$message->setTo(array(
"client#customdomain.com" => "Main Email",
"client#publicdomain.com" => "Secondary Email"
));
$message->setSubject("This email is sent using Swift Mailer");
$message->setBody("You're our best client ever.");
$message->setFrom("developers#mydomain.com", "Developers United");
$attachment = Swift_Attachment::newInstance($pdf_as_string, 'my-file.pdf', 'application/pdf');
$message->attach($attachment);
[...]
Maybe this answer comes a little late since I am using swiftmailer v4_3_0 and TCPDF v6_0_002. But just in case is worth to someone.
I have had no problems attaching TCPDFs on the fly.
I call a function which eventually returns the PDF using the Output type 'S':
return $pdf->Output('TE_Invoice.pdf', 'S');
I attach the file using:
$message->attach(Swift_Attachment::newInstance()
->setFilename('TE_Invoice.pdf')
->setContentType('application/pdf')
->setBody($val['file']));
Where $val['file'] is the returned value from above.
I am using TCPDF Version: 5.9.134 and Swift Mailer Version: 4.1.3
You can use outputmode 'E' to get base64String.
$base64PdfString = $pdf->Output('', 'E');
Beware: Maybe you have to cut the first 5-6 lines, because of
Content-Type: application/pdf; name=""
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename=""
Base64StringStartsHere....
cut
$base64PdfArray = explode("\r\n", $base64PdfString);
$base64 = '';
for($i = 5; $i < count($base64PdfArray); $i++) {
$base64 .= $base64PdfArray[$i];
}
Now you have the Email as base64String.
Before sending you have to decode it.
$mail->attach(new \Swift_Attachment(base64_decode($base64), 'Pdf.pdf', 'application/pdf'));
Did you try this?
$file = $pdf->Output('', 'S');
I'm doing this with another mail backend in PHP, and this does work. I guess the mail backend takes care of encoding the attachment, so there is no need to encode it as base64 manually.
I have a web application that builds a dynamic PDF with FPDF and allows you to download it. That works fine. When I try to email it to myself as a test instead of downloading, I get an email with a corrupt PDF attachment.
I have tried the code from http://www.astahost.com/info.php/create-email-pdf-file-39on-fly39-php_t6334.html and http://www.daniweb.com/code/snippet217105.html but get the same result each time.
Has anyone come across this or know a way to fix it?
Your best way to get help here is to subset the full text headers and body of a received message, and place them in your question. Email is encoded, and not all email servers pass all types of encoding. The code you're using specifies "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64".
Here's a valid JPG encoded with same:
--_eba07140-496e-4f3d-91ce-aff8afde8879_
Content-Type: image/jpeg
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="DSC03538_AZ_atCape.JPG"
/9j/4Rt/RXhpZgAASUkqAAgAAAALAA4BAgAgAAAAkgAAAA8BAgAFAAAAsgAAABABAgAHAAAAuAAA
ABIBAwABAAAAAQAAABoBBQABAAAAwAAAABsBBQABAAAAyAAAACgBAwABAAAAAgAAADIBAgAUAAAA
....
I have a php script that will an catch email passed to it and process it.
#!/usr/local/bin/php -q
<?php
while (!feof(STDIN)) {$s .= fgets(STDIN);}
// Now do some work on the email source in $s.
?>
This works fine. My question is how to save an attachment into the file system from the source. For example, if I isolate the section below, how do I need to process it before saving it into a gif file to create a valid gif?
I assume I need to change the encoding, or otherwise process it, but does anyone know exactly?
Thanks!
--------------090607000609050308090504
Content-Type: image/gif;
name="tfk.gif"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-ID: <part1.06050801.05020504#etc....>
Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename="tfk.gif"
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Mailparse
Try the PEAR_Mail_MimeDecode class from Pear. You can feed it the entire mail, and get back the various MIME chunks... and no need to install an extension.
For a PHP solution (no C extensions required), there's PEAR Mail_mimedecode.
After parsing the e-mail, you already have the attachment bytestream, no need to base64 decode yourself.