MPDF E-mail Attachment Sends Blank PDF

Question

I have successfully generated a PDF using mpdf, which I have verified by downloading the PDF. However, when I send the PDF as an e-mail attachment I receive a blank PDF with

Answer 1

If you can use swiftmailer, you can attach a MPDF generated PDF to the email, quite easily as follows:

setUsername($smtp_username')
  ->setPassword($smtp_password');

$mailer = Swift_Mailer::newInstance($transporter);

$message = Swift_Message::newInstance('Email Subject')
  ->setFrom(array($from_email => $from_name))
  ->setTo($to_email)
  ->setBody($email_body);

$attachment = Swift_Attachment::newInstance($mpdf->Output($pdf_path, "S"), $pdf_file_name, 'application/pdf');
$message->attach($attachment);  

$message->setContentType("text/html");

$result = $mailer->send($message);
?>

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