Question

What is the easiest way to attach a PDF to an email via DOMPDF?

The end of my script I am using (part of it) is below:

$dompdf = new DOMPDF();
$dompdf->load_html($html);
$dompdf->render();    
//below to save the pdf file - not needed if emailing pdf
file_put_contents('/home/ststrave/public_html/pdf/STS_Brochure.pdf', $dompdf->output());
//below to open pdf in browser - required
$dompdf->stream("STS_Brochure_".rand(10,1000).".pdf", array("Attachment" => false));
jexit();

Just for clarification – this is being used in Joomla.

Appreciate the simplest/quickest way using standard PHP mail function.

Cheers 😉

Answer 1

PHP’s mail function has no “standard” file attachment method. It’s an extremely barebones interface to the SMTP system that forces you to do ALL the work of attaching a file yourself.

I strongly suggest using PHPMailer or Swiftmailer to do the email for you – it reduces the heavy grunt work of generating your own MIME email and inserting the attachment (many many lines of code) does to maybe 5 lines total.

Note that neither of them will handle a streamed PDF from DOMPDF. You’ll have to save the PDF to a temporary file and attach that,