Question

I made a PHP script yesterday which send an email with a PDF as an attachment.

When I make a crontab with this script shedulded, I recieve the email but not the attachment.
When I launch the script manually, I have the email and the attachment.

Here is the PHP code of the sendMail function :

function sendMail()
{
            $corpse = file_get_contents(dirname(__FILE__).'/output/output.tpl');
            $mail = new PHPMailer;
            $mail->isMail();
            $mail->IsHTML(true);
            $mail->From='SenderMailAddress';
            $mail->FromName='SenderName';
            $mail->AddAddress('MyEmail');
            $date = date("Ymd", time());
            $yesterday = date("Ymd", strtotime("-1 day"));
            if ($this->type == cur)
                    $pj = "/opt/birt/ReportEngine/output/bookingperiod_".$date.".pdf";
            else
                    $pj = "/opt/birt/ReportEngine/output/bookingperiod_".$yesterday.".pdf";
            echo $pj;
            $mail->AddAttachment($pj);
            $mail->AddReplyTo('NoReplyAddress');
            $mail->Subject='SubjectOfTheMail';
            $mail->Body=$corpse;
            if (!$mail->Send())
                    echo "Error Sending: ".$mail->ErrorInfo;
            unset($mail);
}

The script that I put as a crontask :

TODAY=`date "+%Y-%m-%d"`

export BIRT_HOME=/opt/birt
echo $TODAY

cd /opt/birt/ReportEngine
php GenPeriod.php PDF $TODAY /*first generation of a PDF file which will be the attachment for the PHP script*/

cd MY_PATH_TO_PHPSCRIPT_FOLDER
php Launche.php cur

Do someone already encounter the same type of problem ?

How can you solve it ?

Thanks 😉

Answer 1

Try something like this and continue with verifing file permissions.

function sendMail()
{
        $corpse = file_get_contents(dirname(__FILE__).'/output/output.tpl');
        $mail = new PHPMailer;
        $mail->isMail();
        $mail->IsHTML(true);
        $mail->From='SenderMailAddress';
        $mail->FromName='SenderName';
        $mail->AddAddress('MyEmail');
        $date = date("Ymd", time());
        $yesterday = date("Ymd", strtotime("-1 day"));
        if ($this->type == cur)
                $pj = "/opt/birt/ReportEngine/output/bookingperiod_".$date.".pdf";
        else
                $pj = "/opt/birt/ReportEngine/output/bookingperiod_".$yesterday.".pdf";
        //echo $pj;

        $mail->Subject = (is_readable($pj)) ? 'The file is readable' : 'The file is NOT readable'; // DEBUG

        $mail->AddAttachment($pj);
        $mail->AddReplyTo('NoReplyAddress');
        //$mail->Subject='SubjectOfTheMail';
        $mail->Body=$corpse;
        if (!$mail->Send())
                echo "Error Sending: ".$mail->ErrorInfo;
        unset($mail);
}

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.is-readable.php