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Send Email with PDF attachment

In this tutorial you will learn how to send email with PDF attachment in a PHP web application. The code of  "emai-with-pdf-attachment.php" given below :

<?php
require('fpdf16/fpdf.php');

class SimpleTable extends FPDF
{
function generateTable($no)
{

for($i=1;$i<=10;$i++)
{
$this->cell(20,10,$no,1,0,"C");
$this->cell(20,10," * ".$i,1,0,"C");
$this->cell(20,10," = ".$i*$no,1,1,"C");
}
}
}

$pdf=new SimpleTable();
$pdf->AddPage();
$pdf->SetFont('Arial','B',16);
$pdf->generateTable(2);
// open pdf file
//$pdf->Output();

// Filename that will be used for the file as the attachment
$fileatt_name = "test.pdf";
$dir='pdffile/';
// save pdf in directory
$pdf ->Output($dir.$fileatt_name);

//....................

$data = $pdf->Output("", "S");

//..................


$email_from = "roseindia@gmail.com"; // Who the email is from
$email_subject = "Your attached file"; // The Subject of the email
$email_to = "b1@localhost"; // Who the email is to


$semi_rand = md5(time());
$data = chunk_split(base64_encode($data));

$fileatt_type = "application/pdf"; // File Type
$mime_boundary = "==Multipart_Boundary_x{$semi_rand}x";

// set header ........................
$headers = "From: ".$email_from;
$headers .= "\nMIME-Version: 1.0\n" .
"Content-Type: multipart/mixed;\n" .
" boundary=\"{$mime_boundary}\"";

// set email message......................
$email_message = "Thanks for visiting ";
$email_message .= "Thanks for visiting.<br>";// Message that the email has in it
$email_message .= "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n\n" .
"--{$mime_boundary}\n" .
"Content-Type:text/html; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n" .
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n" .
$email_message .= "\n\n";
$email_message .= "--{$mime_boundary}\n" .
"Content-Type: {$fileatt_type};\n" .
" name=\"{$fileatt_name}\"\n" .
"Content-Disposition: attachment;\n" .
" filename=\"{$fileatt_name}\"\n" .
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n\n" .
$data .= "\n\n" .
"--{$mime_boundary}--\n";

$sent = @mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);
if($sent) {
echo "Your email attachment send successfully.";
} else {
die("Sorry but the email could not be sent. Please try again!");
}
?>

In this tutorial send email with PDF attachment and PDF save in "pdffile" folder.

Output :

When  run "emai-with-pdf-attachment.php" then generate PDF and save in  "pdffile" folder and send email with PDF attachment. If email send successfully display message as :

If open "pdffile" folder display save PDF as :

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