Question

In my current project, I have to create a PDF file on the fly and attach as a mail attachment and send. It works fine, the file generate and send to the email I provided. When I send it to Microsoft Outlook or Windows Live account, the PDF has attached but can’t open the file with pdf, gives and error saying, its damaged. But with gmail and yahoo it works fine. Does anybody have a solution for this. Below is my code

$dompdf = new DOMPDF();
    $dompdf->load_html($message);
    $dompdf->set_paper("a4", "landscape");
    $dompdf->render();

    // The next call will store the entire PDF as a string in $pdf
    $pdf = $dompdf->output();

    // You can now write $pdf to disk, store it in a database or stream it to the client.
    file_put_contents("pdfs/invoice.pdf", $pdf);


    $fileatt = "pdfs/invoice.pdf"; // Path to the file
    $fileatt_type = "pdf"; // File Type
    $fileatt_name = "invoice.pdf"; // Filename that will be used for the file as the attachment


    $fp = fopen($fileatt, "rb");
    $file = fread($fp, filesize($fileatt));

    $file = chunk_split(base64_encode($file));
    $num = md5(time());




    $to = "[e-mail]";

    $subject = "Invoice";
    $headers = "From: " . "Manager" . "<" . "[e-mail]" . ">\r\n";
    $headers  .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
    $headers  .= "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; ";
    $headers  .= "boundary=".$num."\r\n";
    $headers  .= "--$num\r\n";

    $headers .= "Message-ID: <" . gettimeofday() . " TheSystem@" . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . ">\r\n";
    $headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP v" . phpversion() . "\r\n";



    $headers  .= "Content-Type:".$fileatt_type." ";
    $headers  .= "name=\"".$fileatt_name."\"r\n";
    $headers  .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n";
    $headers  .= "Content-Disposition: attachment; ";
    $headers  .= "filename=\"".$fileatt_name."\"\r\n";
    $headers  .= "".$file."\r\n";
    $headers  .= "--".$num."\r\n";

    $headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
    $headers .= "".$message."\r\n";
    $headers .= "--".$num."--";

    if (mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers)) {
        fclose($fp);
        echo "Success";
        //header("location: client.php?m=1");
    } else {
        echo "Error";
        //header("location: client.php?m=0");
    }

Hope someone can help me to solve the problem.

Answer 1

Building your own mime messages is never a good idea. Use PHPMailer or Swiftmailer instead. They both handle the heavy lifting of building the messages, including file attachments. Best of all, they’re both free and work far far better than the built-in PHP mail function. Your code above could be reduced to about 5 of 6 lines of mail-sending-code with either of the packages.