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Anna
Anna

Reputation: 3141

Yii2 - Generate Pdf on the fly and attach to email

This is how I can generate pdf page

public function actionPdf(){
    Yii::$app->response->format = 'pdf';
    $this->layout = '//print';
    return $this->render('myview', []);
}

And this is how I send emails

$send = Yii::$app->mailer->compose('mytemplate',[])
    ->setFrom(Yii::$app->params['adminEmail'])
    ->setTo($email)
    ->setSubject($subject)
    ->send();

How I can generate pdf as a file and attach it to my emails on the fly?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 6027

Answers (3)

Krishnadas PC
Krishnadas PC

Reputation: 6539

This is how I sent mails in Yii2

private function sendPdfAsEmail($mpdf)
    {
        $mpdf->Output('filename.pdf', 'F');
        $send = Yii::$app->mailer->compose()
        ->setFrom('[email protected]')
        ->setTo('[email protected]')
        ->setSubject('Test Message')
        ->setTextBody('Plain text content. YII2 Application')
        ->setHtmlBody('<b>HTML content.</b>')
        ->attach(Yii::getAlias('@webroot').'/filename.pdf')
        ->send();
        if($send) {
            echo "Send";
        }
    }
  1. Pass the mpdf instance to our custom function.
  2. Use the F option in mpdf to save the output as a file.
  3. use the attach option in Yii mailer and set the path of the saved file.

Upvotes: 1

Yupik
Yupik

Reputation: 5031

Mailer have method called attachContent(), where you can put pdf file.

PDF should be rendered with output destination set as string, and then pass it as param to attachContent().

Sample:

Yii::$app->mail->compose()
   ->attachContent($pathToPdfFile, [
        'fileName'    => 'Name of your pdf',
        'contentType' => 'application/pdf'
   ])
   // to & subject & content of message
   ->send();

Upvotes: 7

Anna
Anna

Reputation: 3141

This is how I did it

In my controller:

$mpdf=new mPDF();
$mpdf->WriteHTML($this->renderPartial('pdf',['model' => $model])); //pdf is a name of view file responsible for this pdf document
$path = $mpdf->Output('', 'S'); 

Yii::$app->mail->compose()
->attachContent($path, ['fileName' => 'Invoice #'.$model->number.'.pdf',   'contentType' => 'application/pdf'])

Upvotes: 4

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