PHP PDFLIB PHPMAILER Create, Save, Send - php

Question

i'd like to create a PDF using PDFLIB, saving it to the server, send it to the recipient and open it after all!
With this code I can create it, save it to the server, send it but not display it in browser's pdf application.
Any help on that? Thanks in advance.
<?php
try {
$p = new PDFlib();
/* all strings are expected as utf8 */
$p->set_option("stringformat=utf8");
/* open new PDF file; insert a file name to create the PDF on disk */
if ($p->begin_document("test.pdf", "") == 0) {
die("Error: " . $p->get_errmsg());
}
$p->set_info("Creator", "hello.php");
$p->set_info("Author", "Rainer Schaaf");
$p->set_info("Title", "Hello world (PHP)!");
$p->begin_page_ext(595, 842, "");
$font = $p->load_font("Helvetica-Bold", "unicode", "");
if ($font == 0) {
die("Error: " . $p->get_errmsg());
}
$p->setfont($font, 24.0);
$p->set_text_pos(50, 700);
$p->show("Hello world!");
$p->continue_text("(says PHP)");
$p->end_page_ext("");
$p->end_document("");
//#########################################
//
//############# PHP MAILER ################
echo (extension_loaded('openssl')?'SSL loaded':'SSL not loaded')."\n";
date_default_timezone_set('Etc/UTC');
require 'phpmailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php';
//Create a new PHPMailer instance
$mail = new PHPMailer;
//Tell PHPMailer to use SMTP
$mail->isSMTP();
//Enable SMTP debugging
// 0 = off (for production use)
// 1 = client messages
// 2 = client and server messages
$mail->SMTPDebug = 2;
//Ask for HTML-friendly debug output
$mail->Debugoutput = 'html';
//Set the hostname of the mail server
$mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';
// use
$mail->Host = 'tls://smtp.gmail.com';
// if your network does not support SMTP over IPv6
//Set the SMTP port number - 587 for authenticated TLS, a.k.a. RFC4409 SMTP submission
$mail->Port = 587;
//Set the encryption system to use - ssl (deprecated) or tls
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';
//Whether to use SMTP authentication
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
//Username to use for SMTP authentication - use full email address for gmail
$mail->Username = "xxxx.xxxx#gmail.com";
//Password to use for SMTP authentication
$mail->Password = "xxxxxxxxxx";
//Set who the message is to be sent from
$mail->setFrom('xxxxxxx#gmail.com', 'First Last');
//Set an alternative reply-to address
//$mail->addReplyTo('replyto#example.com', 'First Last');
//Set who the message is to be sent to
$mail->addAddress('xxxxxxxx#email.com', 'John Doe');
//Set the subject line
$mail->Subject = 'PHPMailer GMail SMTP test';
//Read an HTML message body from an external file, convert referenced images to embedded,
//convert HTML into a basic plain-text alternative body
$mail->Body = 'trying to send a pdf';
//Replace the plain text body with one created manually
//$mail->AltBody = 'This is a plain-text message body';
//Attach an image file
$mail->addAttachment('test.pdf');
//send the message, check for errors
if (!$mail->send()) {
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
echo "Message sent!";
$buf = $p->get_buffer();
$len = strlen($buf);
header("Content-type: application/pdf");
header("Content-Length: $len");
header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=hello.pdf");
print $buf;
}
}
catch (PDFlibException $e) {
die("PDFlib exception occurred in hello sample:\n" .
"[" . $e->get_errnum() . "] " . $e->get_apiname() . ": " .
$e->get_errmsg() . "\n");
}
catch (Exception $e) {
die($e);
}
$p = 0;
?>

Answer 1

Basic HTTP problem. You are outputting text before the headers that identify it as a PDF, which will break it. I expect you're getting errors logged saying "headers already sent" from those calls to header(). Comment out the echo "Message sent!"; line.