php send e-mail with PDF attachment

Question 1

You can use PHPMailer with FPDF . It works properly without any hassle. You need to change parameter for $pdf->Output . Download and copy class.phpmailer.php and PHPMailerAutoload.php to your work folder. Attach class.phpmailer.php below or above require('html2pdf.php'); . I have done this before so this will work. According to your code this should work.

function send_pdf_to_user(){
    if($_REQUEST['action'] == 'pdf_invoice' ){
        require('html2pdf.php');
        require_once('class.phpmailer.php');
        $pdf=new PDF_HTML();
        $pdf->SetFont('Arial','',11);
        $pdf->AddPage();

        $text = get_html_message($_REQUEST['eventid'], $_REQUEST['userid']);
        if(ini_get('magic_quotes_gpc')=='1')
        $text=stripslashes($text);
        $pdf->WriteHTML($text);

        $mail = new PHPMailer(); // defaults to using php "mail()"
        $body = "This is test mail by monirul";
       
        $mail->AddReplyTo("webmaster@test.ch","Test Lernt");
        $mail->SetFrom('webmaster@test.ch', 'Test Lernt');
       
        $address = "monirulmask@gmail.com";
        $mail->AddAddress($address, "Abdul Kuddos");       
        $mail->Subject    = "Test Invoice";       
        $mail->AltBody    = "To view the message, please use an HTML compatible email viewer!"; // optional, comment out and test
       
        $mail->MsgHTML($body);
        //documentation for Output method here: http://www.fpdf.org/en/doc/output.htm       
        $pdf->Output("Test Invoice.pdf","F");
        $path = "Walter Lernt Invoice.pdf";
         
        $mail->AddAttachment($path, '', $encoding = 'base64', $type = 'application/pdf');
        global $message;
        if(!$mail->Send()) {
          $message =  "Invoice could not be send. Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
        } else {
          $message = "Invoice sent!";
        }
       
    }
}

Question 2

Use this simple code to send email with pdf attachment. Hope this help you. Thanks.

// Settings
$name        = "Name goes here";
$email       = "someome@anadress.com";
$to          = "$name <$email>";
$from        = "Gyan-Shah ";
$subject     = "Here is your attachment";
$mainMessage = "Hi, here's the file.";
$fileatt     = "./test.pdf"; //file location
$fileatttype = "application/pdf";
$fileattname = "newname.pdf"; //name that you want to use to send or you can use the same name
$headers = "From: $from";

// File
$file = fopen($fileatt, 'rb');
$data = fread($file, filesize($fileatt));
fclose($file);

// This attaches the file
$semi_rand     = md5(time());
$mime_boundary = "==Multipart_Boundary_x{$semi_rand}x";
$headers      .= "\nMIME-Version: 1.0\n" .
  "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;\n" .
  " boundary=\"{$mime_boundary}\"";
  $message = "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n\n" .
  "--{$mime_boundary}\n" .
  "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\n" .
  "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n" .
  $mainMessage  . "\n\n";

$data = chunk_split(base64_encode($data));
$message .= "--{$mime_boundary}\n" .
  "Content-Type: {$fileatttype};\n" .
  " name=\"{$fileattname}\"\n" .
  "Content-Disposition: attachment;\n" .
  " filename=\"{$fileattname}\"\n" .
  "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n\n" .
$data . "\n\n" .
 "--{$mime_boundary}--\n";

// Send the email
if(mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers)) {

  echo "The email was sent.";

}
else {

  echo "There was an error sending the mail.";
}

Question 3

No external libraries are necessary really. Follow this format:

$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

// create headers and mime boundry
$eol = PHP_EOL;
$semi_rand     = md5(time());
$mime_boundary = "==Multipart_Boundary_x{$semi_rand}x";
$headers       = "From: $from$eol" .
  "MIME-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;

// fetch pdf
$file = fopen($pdfLocation, 'rb');
$data = fread($file, filesize($pdfLocation));
fclose($file);
$pdf = chunk_split(base64_encode($data));

// attach 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--";

// Send the email
if(mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers)) {
  echo "The email was sent.";
}
else {
  echo "There was an error sending the mail.";
}

Question 4

change this:

$msg .= "Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name=\"attachment.pdf\"\r\n";

To this:

$msg = "Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name=\"attachment.pdf\"\r\n";