HTML2PDF page stores file but is not sent in e-mail - php

Question

i have a problem with my code, it's supposed to store the pdf file in the server and then send it as an attachment in an e-mail to the client automatically, here is the code :
ob_end_clean();
$fileName='CW00'.$commande.'.pdf';
$file = $html2pdf>Output('/home/itscoma/public_html/components/'.$fileName,'F');
try{
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsHTML(true);
$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->SMTPDebug = SMTP::DEBUG_SERVER;
$mail->CharSet = 'UTF-8';
$mail->Host= "smtp.gmail.com";
$mail->SMTPDebug = 0;
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->SMTPSecure = PHPMailer::ENCRYPTION_STARTTLS;
$mail->Port = 465;
$mail->Username = "***#***.com";
$mail->Password = "******";
$mail->From='a***#gmail.com';
$mail->AddAddress('*****#gmail.com');
$mail->AddReplyTo('*****#gmail.com');
$mail->Subject='sujet';
$mail->Body='message';
$mail->AddAttachment($file);
$mail->Send();
unset($mail);
} catch (Exception $e) {
echo "Message could not be sent. Mailer Error: {$mail->ErrorInfo}";
}

Answer 1

Several things wrong here. This combination will not work:
$mail->SMTPSecure = PHPMailer::ENCRYPTION_STARTTLS;
$mail->Port = 465;
Change Port to 587 to use that encryption mode, or change encryption mode to PHPMailer::ENCRYPTION_SMTPS to work with port 465.
This line is meaningless:
$file = $html2pdf>Output('/home/itscoma/public_html/components/'.$fileName,'F');
because you're missing a -, it should be $html2pdf->Output.
Next, what does that method return? What do you get in $file? If it's not the path to the saved file (which you already know anyway), then passing it to addAttachment is not going to do anything useful. It would be a good idea to check that this call actually works – at the moment you're just assuming it does.
You would know this if you checked the return value from addAttachment(), but you're not so you don't know that it's failing.
I suggest trying this:
if (!$mail->addAttachment('/home/itscoma/public_html/components/' . $fileName)) {
echo 'Attachment failed';
}