I want to do this:
$mail = new PHPMailer;
$mail->AddAttachment('text in file', 'file.txt');
so the attachment can have dynamic content. I can only use real file as attachment now. Obviously, real file is static, I want to generate some content dynamically and attach it to the mail. There must be some way to do it, I guess it's not that obscure feature. Someone knows how?
$mail->AddStringAttachment($string,$filename,$encoding,$type);
http://phpmailer.worxware.com/?pg=tutorial#3
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It just so happens we have two files that are the exact same size that we some times try to send together. We can send anything else we want with these files but as soon as we include both of them it only sends the first one. I'll include my phpmailer code just to be safe but its worked thus far.
$mail = new PHPMailer(true);
$mail->IsSendMail();
$mail->SetFrom($from_addy, $from_name);
foreach(explode(',',$to) as $address1){
foreach(explode(';',$address1) as $address2){
if($address2 != ''){
$mail->AddAddress($address2);
}
}
}
$mail->WordWrap = 70;
$mail->IsHTML(true);
$mail->Subject = $subject;
$mail->Body = $css.$message;
$mail->AltBody = nl2br($message);
$mail->MsgHTML($css.$message);
if(is_array($attachments)){
foreach($attachments as $attachment){
$file = file_get_contents($attachment['tmp_name']);
$mail->AddStringAttachment($file,$attachment['name']);
// I have put checks here and both attachments do make it this far.
}
}
You're not checking the return value from addStringAttachment so you don't know if it's working or not. PHPMailer doesn't throw exceptions for everything, and while you've requested them, you're not catching them anyway. Why read the file and use addStringAttachment - why not read the attachment directly from the file with addAttachment? String attachments are more useful when you need to attach the results of a remote API call, PDF generation etc. Like this:
if (!$mail->addAttachment($attachment['tmp_name'], $attachment['name'])) {
echo "Failed to attach ".$attachment['tmp_name'];
}
Why are you using isSendmail()? It's unlikely you need that.
You've not presented any evidence that it's got anything to do with the file size - it's not as if attachments are indexed by their size value or anything.
You're setting AltBody before calling msgHTML(), which overwrites AltBody. Calling nl2br() on AltBody contents is pointless because AltBody will usually be presented as plain text, so <br> tags will show up.
It looks like your $attachment array may be sourced from $_FILES, in which case it looks you are handling file uploads unsafely. read the PHP docs on that, and look at the "send file upload" example provided with PHPMailer.
Overall, it looks like you've based your code on a very old PHPMailer example, so make sure you're using the latest version, and look at the examples provided with it.
I'm using PHPMailer to send automatic email (obviously using PHP as programming language).
I would like to add a PDF attachment generated with TCPdf.
Unfortunately I cannot generate the PDF inside the php page where I'm using PHPMailer, and I cannot create a function that generate it.
I can only use a link to generate it, like this:
www.mypage.com/app-pdf/link_generate_pdf.php?IDToGenerate=131&PDFOutput=I
I was thinking that I can recall the page with the PDFOutput=S and "return" in some way the text of the PDF and add it as attachment.
Otherwise I can call the page with PDFOutput=F and save it to a temp folder and then attach it to the email.
The problem is that I don't know how to "call" a page as it were a function and return what the recalling page actually returns.
Do you have some suggestion?
Thank you
edit: I now understand the problem! The problem is that the URL is accessible only from autentication (login page). I thought that as I was logged in, the script was automatically capable of read the page. How can I solve this?
Use this to save the file on the server first and then attach
file_put_contents("Tmpfile.pdf", fopen("http://example.com/file.pdf", 'r'));
Attach as
$mail->AddAttachment('path_to_pdf/Tmpfile.pdf', $name = 'Name_of_pdf_file',
$encoding = 'base64', $type = 'application/pdf');
Hope this helps
Edit: Try this. works fine over here
file_put_contents("path_to_pdf/Tmpfile.pdf",
file_get_contents("http://example.com/file.pdf"));
I'm having really a hard time with TCPDF, in what I am seeing from my searching here in Stack Overflow, I can't find any help in understanding on how to use TCPDF. I can't figure out on how to include tcpdf in my website unlike FPDF, I'll just have to copy paste required folders and files inside the folder of the website then place a require(fpdf.php); in the pages. How do I do that in TCPDF?
I can't even figure out how to connect to my database unlike FPDF.
I want to know the basics in understanding TCPDF.
Can someone guide me in understanding TCPDF?
I have used this DOMPDF tutorial to convert my HTML file into PDF. You can send this PDF file to user mail also. It is very easy to understand. Try this and please let me know whether it help you or not. You can see demo here
EDIT :- If you don't want to send a mail then just remove the following code from form.php
// Load the SwiftMailer files
require_once($dir.'/swift/swift_required.php');
$mailer = new Swift_Mailer(new Swift_MailTransport()); // Create new instance of SwiftMailer
$message = Swift_Message::newInstance()
->setSubject('How To Create and Send An HTML Email w/ a PDF Attachment') // Message subject
->setTo(array($post->email => $post->name)) // Array of people to send to
->setFrom(array('no-reply#net.tutsplus.com' => 'Nettuts+')) // From:
->setBody($html_message, 'text/html') // Attach that HTML message from earlier
->attach(Swift_Attachment::newInstance($pdf_content, 'nettuts.pdf', 'application/pdf')); // Attach the generated PDF from earlier
// Send the email, and show user message
if ($mailer->send($message))
$success = true;
else
$error = true;
hi i want to send a image in html format using php mailer class but image show in mail after downloading. but i want to display the image without downloading. is there any option in mailer class or there is another method for this.
or i have to send the the image in another format.
Well, there can be only two possible answers:
you do not want to embed the actual image file with the eMail, then simply put an <img> element into the eMail linking to the image at the remote location, just like you would with any other HTML page. Then cross fingers and hope the client has HTML email enabled and allows display of remote images.
or
you dont want to reference the file from a remote server, but embed it with the eMail. In that case, refer to How To Embed Images in HTML EMail or Attaching an image to an email
If your using PHP Mailer...
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->SetFrom("blah#blah.com");
$mail->AddAddress("blah#blah.com");
$mail->Subject = "Blah"
$mail->MsgHTML('<html><body><img src="logo.jpg">Hello</body></html>');
$mail->AddAttachment("logo.jpg");
$mail->Send();
Using AddAttachment PHP Mailer will check your HTML for a reference to that file and automatically embed it for you.
buddy, its really simple. Write html code as if you write in developing a web page. Give the complete url to the image in the src attribute.
Dont forget to user the function eregi_replace() on body html
$html_message = eregi_replace("[\]",'',$body_html_string);
engoy !!!!! ;)
I was just wondering if I could have a variable to hold an image, I'm using phpmailer to send email and I need an image to be attached to it,
so I was wondering if I could put the image in a variable and use
$mailer->AddAttachment($image);
to send the email with attachment.
thanks for your help.
With PhpMailer adding an attachment is done the way you wrote it in the question
$mailer->AddAttachment('/home/mywebsite/file.jpg', 'file.jpg');
If you want to use a variable you can change the string by a variable without problem.
$imagePath = '/home/mywebsite/file.jpg';
imageName = 'file.jpg'
$mailer->AddAttachment($imagePath, $imageName);
I guess $image should contain local path to the image file.
If you look at phpMailer source, at line 1218:
http://phpmailer.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/phpmailer/phpmailer/trunk/class.phpmailer.php?revision=444&view=markup
you'll see that it verifies at first that what you have given is path to existing file. There is no other option.
Unless I'm missing something, that's exactly how it's supposed to be used.
According to this document, you'd do something like this:
$myImg = '/some/path/to/image.jpg';
$mailer->AddAttachment($myImg);
Is that not what you're trying?
Why cant you do this this way? Sending email attachments in PHP Using phpmailer class !