I need to send a pdf with mail, is it possible?
$to = \"xxx\";
$subject = \"Subject\" ;
$message = \'Example message with html\';
$header
I ended up writing my own email sending/encoding function. This has worked well for me for sending PDF attachments. I have not used the other features in production.
Note: Despite the spec being quite emphatic that you must use \r\n to separate headers, I found it only worked when I used PHP_EOL. I have only tested this on Linux. YMMV
<?php
# $args must be an associative array
# required keys: from, to, body
# body can be a string or a [tree of] associative arrays. See examples below
# optional keys: subject, reply_to, cc, bcc
# EXAMPLES:
# # text-only email:
# email2(array(
# 'from' => 'noreply@foo.com',
# 'to' => 'jason@jasonwoof.com',
# 'subject' => 'test',
# # body will be text/plain because we're passing a string that doesn't start with '<'
# 'body' => 'Hi, testing 1 2 3',
# ));
#
# # html-only email
# email2(array(
# 'from' => 'noreply@foo.com',
# 'to' => 'jason@jasonwoof.com',
# 'subject' => 'test',
# # body will be text/html because we're passing a string that starts with '<'
# 'body' => '<h1>Hi!</h1>I like <a href="http://cheese.com">cheese</a>',
# ));
#
# # text-only email (explicitly, in case first character is dynamic or something)
# email2(array(
# 'from' => 'noreply@foo.com',
# 'to' => 'jason@jasonwoof.com',
# 'subject' => 'test',
# # body will be text/plain because we're passing a string that doesn't start with '<'
# 'body' => array(
# 'type' => 'text',
# 'body' => $message_text,
# )
# ));
#
# # email with text and html alternatives (auto-detected mime types)
# email2(array(
# 'from' => 'noreply@foo.com',
# 'to' => 'jason@jasonwoof.com',
# 'subject' => 'test',
# 'body' => array(
# 'type' => 'alternatives',
# 'body' => array(
# "Hi!\n\nI like cheese",
# '<h1>Hi!</h1><p>I like <a href="http://cheese.com">cheese</a></p>',
# )
# )
# ));
#
# # email with text and html alternatives (explicit types)
# email2(array(
# 'from' => 'noreply@foo.com',
# 'to' => 'jason@jasonwoof.com',
# 'subject' => 'test',
# 'body' => array(
# 'type' => 'alternatives',
# 'body' => array(
# array(
# 'type' => 'text',
# 'body' => "Hi!\n\nI like cheese",
# ),
# array(
# 'type' => 'html',
# 'body' => '<h1>Hi!</h1><p>I like cheese</p>',
# ),
# )
# )
# ));
#
# # email with an attachment
# email2(array(
# 'from' => 'noreply@foo.com',
# 'to' => 'jason@jasonwoof.com',
# 'subject' => 'test',
# 'body' => array(
# 'type' => 'mixed',
# 'body' => array(
# "Hi!\n\nCheck out this (inline) image",
# array(
# 'type' => 'image/png',
# 'disposition' => 'inline',
# 'body' => $image_data, # raw file contents
# ),
# "Hi!\n\nAnd here's an attachment",
# array(
# 'type' => 'application/pdf; name="attachment.pdf"',
# 'disposition' => 'attachment; filename="attachment.pdf"',
# 'body' => $pdf_data, # raw file contents
# ),
# "Or you can use shorthand:",
# array(
# 'type' => 'application/pdf',
# 'attachment' => 'attachment.pdf', # name for client (not data source)
# 'body' => $pdf_data, # raw file contents
# ),
# )
# )
# ))
function email2($args) {
if (!isset($args['from'])) { return 1; }
$from = $args['from'];
if (!isset($args['to'])) { return 2; }
$to = $args['to'];
$subject = isset($args['subject']) ? $args['subject'] : '';
$reply_to = isset($args['reply_to']) ? $args['reply_to'] : '';
$cc = isset($args['cc']) ? $args['cc'] : '';
$bcc = isset($args['bcc']) ? $args['bcc'] : '';
#FIXME should allow many more characters here (and do Q encoding)
$subject = isset($args['subject']) ? $args['subject'] : '';
$subject = preg_replace("|[^a-z0-9 _/#'.:&,-]|i", '_', $subject);
$headers = "From: $from";
if($reply_to) {
$headers .= PHP_EOL . "Reply-To: $reply_to";
}
if($cc) {
$headers .= PHP_EOL . "CC: $cc";
}
if($bcc) {
$headers .= PHP_EOL . "BCC: $bcc";
}
$r = email2_helper($args['body']);
$headers .= PHP_EOL . $r[0];
$body = $r[1];
if (mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers)) {
return 0;
} else {
return 5;
}
}
function email2_helper($body, $top = true) {
if (is_string($body)) {
if (substr($body, 0, 1) == '<') {
return email2_helper(array('type' => 'html', 'body' => $body), $top);
} else {
return email2_helper(array('type' => 'text', 'body' => $body), $top);
}
}
# now we can assume $body is an associative array
# defaults:
$type = 'application/octet-stream';
$mime = false;
$boundary = null;
$disposition = null;
$charset = false;
# process 'type' first, because it sets defaults for others
if (isset($body['type'])) {
$type = $body['type'];
if ($type === 'text') {
$type = 'text/plain';
$charset = true;
} elseif ($type === 'html') {
$type = 'text/html';
$charset = true;
} elseif ($type === 'alternative' || $type === 'alternatives') {
$mime = true;
$type = 'multipart/alternative';
} elseif ($type === 'mixed') {
$mime = true;
$type = 'multipart/mixed';
}
}
if (isset($body['disposition'])) {
$disposition = $body['disposition'];
}
if (isset($body['attachment'])) {
if ($disposition == null) {
$disposition = 'attachment';
}
$disposition .= "; filename=\"{$body['attachment']}\"";
$type .= "; name=\"{$body['attachment']}\"";
}
# make headers
$headers = array();
if ($top && $mime) {
$headers[] = 'MIME-Version: 1.0';
}
if ($mime) {
$boundary = md5('5sd^%Ca)~aAfF0=4mIN' . rand() . rand());
$type .= "; boundary=$boundary";
}
if ($charset) {
$type .= '; charset=' . (isset($body['charset']) ? $body['charset'] : 'UTF-8');
}
$headers[] = "Content-Type: $type";
if ($disposition !== null) {
$headers[] = "Content-Disposition: {$disposition}";
}
$data = '';
# return array, first el is headers, 2nd is body (php's mail() needs them separate)
if ($mime) {
foreach ($body['body'] as $sub_body) {
$data .= "--$boundary" . PHP_EOL;
$r = email2_helper($sub_body, false);
$data .= $r[0] . PHP_EOL . PHP_EOL; # headers
$data .= $r[1] . PHP_EOL . PHP_EOL; # body
}
$data .= "--$boundary--";
} else {
if(preg_match('/[^\x09\x0A\x0D\x20-\x7E]/', $body['body'])) {
$headers[] = "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64";
$data .= chunk_split(base64_encode($body['body']));
} else {
$data .= $body['body'];
}
}
return array(join(PHP_EOL, $headers), $data);
}
None of the above answers worked for me due to their specified attachment format (application/octet-stream
). Use application/pdf
for best results with PDF files.
<?php
// just edit these
$to = "email1@domain.com, email2@domain.com"; // addresses to email pdf to
$from = "sent_from@domain.com"; // address message is sent from
$subject = "Your PDF email subject"; // email subject
$body = "<p>The PDF is attached.</p>"; // email body
$pdfLocation = "./your-pdf.pdf"; // file location
$pdfName = "pdf-file.pdf"; // pdf file name recipient will get
$filetype = "application/pdf"; // type
// creates headers and mime boundary
$eol = PHP_EOL;
$semi_rand = md5(time());
$mime_boundary = "==Multipart_Boundary_$semi_rand";
$headers = "From: $from$eolMIME-Version: 1.0$eol" .
"Content-Type: multipart/mixed;$eol boundary=\"$mime_boundary\"";
// add html message body
$message = "--$mime_boundary$eol" .
"Content-Type: text/html; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"$eol" .
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit$eol$eol$body$eol";
// fetches pdf
$file = fopen($pdfLocation, 'rb');
$data = fread($file, filesize($pdfLocation));
fclose($file);
$pdf = chunk_split(base64_encode($data));
// attaches pdf to email
$message .= "--$mime_boundary$eol" .
"Content-Type: $filetype;$eol name=\"$pdfName\"$eol" .
"Content-Disposition: attachment;$eol filename=\"$pdfName\"$eol" .
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64$eol$eol$pdf$eol--$mime_boundary--";
// Sends the email
if(mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers)) {
echo "The email was sent.";
}
else {
echo "There was an error sending the mail.";
}