phpmailer how to send both inline ical and document attachment - php

Question

require_once( './PHPMailer-master/PHPMailerAutoload.php');
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->isSMTP(); // Set mailer to use SMTP
$mail->Host = 'smtp.office365.com';
$mail->ClearReplyTos();
$mail->addReplyTo($organizer_email, $organizer);// Specify main and backup server
$mail->SetFrom('xyx#xyx.com', 'zyx');
$mail->SMTPAuth = tls; // Enable SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = 'xyz#xyz.com'; // SMTP username
$mail->Password = 'xyzzzzz'; // SMTP password
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls'; // Enable encryption, 'ssl' also accepted
$mail->Port = 587; //Set the SMTP port number - 587 for authenticated TLS
$mail->addAddress($organizer_email); // Add a recipient
$content = file_get_contents($resume_attach_path);
$content = chunk_split(base64_encode($content));
$eol = "\r\n";
$tags = explode(',', $to);
foreach ($tags as $tag) {
$mail->addCC($tag);
}
$mail->WordWrap = 50;
$mail->Subject = $subject;
$mail->Body = $desc;
$mail->AltBody = $text; // in your case once more the $text string
$mail->Ical = $text; // ical format, in your case $text string
$mail->isHTML(true); // Set email format to HTML
//$mail->addStringAttachment($resume_attach_path,'base64');
if ($mail->send()) {
return true;
}else{
return false;
}
if i use addAttachment i can just see the attachment, cannot see the ical invite ,but if i remove the attachment i can see the ical invite,how can i send both inline ical and external document attachment in phpmailer.

Answer 1

I am showing you a simple working example here
<?php
function sendMail($subject, $body, $name, $email, $attachment = null){
$mail = new PHPMailer(true);
$mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // enable SMTP authentication
$mail->SMTPSecure = "ssl"; // sets the prefix to the servier
$mail->Host = "**************"; // sets GMAIL as the SMTP server
$mail->Port = 465; // set the SMTP port for the GMAIL server
$mail->Username = "*************"; // GMAIL username
$mail->Password = "***********"; // GMAIL password
//Typical mail data
$mail->AddAddress($email, $name);
$mail->SetFrom('*********', '************');
$mail->Subject = $subject;
$mail->Body = $body;
$mail->IsHTML(true);
if($attachment){
$mail->AddAttachment($attachment['tmp_name'],
$attachment['name']);
}
try{
$mail->Send();
} catch(Exception $e){
//Something went bad
// print_r($e);
echo "Fail :(";
die;
}
}
?>
In this code $attachment is $_FILES['file']. How to call this function is given below.
sendMail($subject, $body, $name, $email, $_FILES['file']);
To use Ical in mailer see a Stackoverflow Question

Answer 2

According to comment in PHPMailer code:
Only supported in simple alt or alt_inline message types
when you add other attachments, part of adding Ical file based on Ical property is ommited.