MAGENTO 1.X – SEND AN EMAIL WITH A PDF ATTACHED PROGRAMMATICALLY

On a Magento project, the easiest way to send an email with an attachment, is using the Zend library (provided by Magento).

To do so, let’s do the following:

private function sendEmailToSomeone($mailTo, $pdf_encoded){

$b64file = $pdf_encoded;

if ($b64file){

$b64file= trim(str_replace('data:application/pdf;base64,', "", $b64file) );

$b64file= str_replace( ' ', '+', $b64file);

$decodPdf= base64_decode($b64file);

$pdfFileName = "Your_filename.pdf";

file_put_contents($nomPdf, $decodPdf);

$mail = new Zend_Mail();

$recipients = array(

$customerName => $mailTo

);

$body = "<b>Body of you email in HTML</b>";

$mail->setBodyHtml($body)

->setSubject("Subject of your email")

->addTo($recipients)

->setFrom("", "");

$attachment = file_get_contents($pdfFileName);

$mail->createAttachment(

$attachment,

Zend_Mime::TYPE_OCTETSTREAM,

Zend_Mime::DISPOSITION_ATTACHMENT,

Zend_Mime::ENCODING_BASE64,

$pdfFileName

);

try {

$mail->send();

} catch (Exception $e) {

Mage::logException($e);

}

Another way to do this, is with the PHPMailer library, but it’s external and not provided by Magento (so i do not recommend using it on Magento projects).
To load the PHPMailer library, you can download it from its github repository https://github.com/PHPMailer/ , and then locate the file under app/lib/ directory.

Then, you need to make a function as follows:

private function sendEmailToSomeone($mailTo,$nameTo, $pdf_encoded){

require 'lib/PHPMailerAutoload.php';

$b64file = $pdf_encoded;

if ($b64file){

$b64file= trim(str_replace('data:application/pdf;base64,', "", $b64file) );

$b64file= str_replace( ' ', '+', $b64file);

$decodedPdf= base64_decode($b64file);

$pdfName = "your_pdf_filename.pdf";

file_put_contents($pdfName, $decodedPdf);

$mail = new PHPMailer;

$mail->isSendmail();

$mail->setFrom('', '');

$mail->addAddress($mailTo, $nameTo);

//Set the subject line

$mail->Subject = "This will be your subject";

$mail->IsHTML(true);

$mail->Body = "<b>This will be the body in HTML</b>";

$mail->AltBody = '';

$mail->addAttachment($pdfName);

$mail->Timeout=60;

$mail->send();

}

Once you have your function created, you can call it doing:

// Encode your local pdf file in a 64 bits format

$pdf_base64 = "localfile.pdf";

// Get File content from txt file

$pdf_base64_handler = fopen($pdf_base64,'r');

$pdf_content = fread ($pdf_base64_handler,filesize($pdf_base64));

fclose($pdf_base64_handler);

// Encode pdf content

$pdf_encoded = base64_encode($pdf_content);

// Call your function to send the email

$this->sendEmailToSomeone('anyone@domain.com', $pdf_encoded)