How to send blade as attachment in pdf format in laravel? - laravel

Question

I want to send blade file as attachment in mail with laravel. I am
writing below code for this but its not working.
Below is my controller where i am getting data from form and then send
this data to another controller where my attachment function is
called.
$data = array('shareholders'=>$request->com_shareholder_count,'contract_send'=>$request->contract_send);
$to = $mail_log->to_email_id = $request->email_id;
$mail = Mail::to($to)->send(new SendMailable($data));
This is my SendMailable controller :
$director_info_pdf = view('directors_info',compact('data'))->render();
On return this variable it shows me error :
message: "Invalid view.", exception: "InvalidArgumentException",…}
exception: "InvalidArgumentException"
file: "C:\xampp\htdocs\caps_admin\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Mail\Mailer.php"
line: 285
message: "Invalid view."
After this line i am writing code to attach my files. where i am sending some files other 3 files are directly send from folder. And last one is attached from blade file.
->attachdata($director_info_pdf, 'dynamic_data.pdf')
->attach( $public_path.'/'.'contract.pdf', [
'as' => 'contract.pdf',
'mime' => 'application/pdf',
])
->attach($public_path.'/'.'HMRC.pdf',[
'as' => 'HMRC.pdf',
'mime' => 'application/pdf',
])
->attach($public_path.'/'.'clientR3.pdf',[
'as' => 'contract1.pdf',
'mime' => 'application/pdf',
]);
I am able to send mail with all 4 files as attachment. But when i am trying to open my files in mail rest 3 files are working as pdf. but ->attachdata($director_info_pdf, 'dynamic_data.pdf') this file get corrupted.
I dont know how to first change this file into pdf and then send as attachment.
I am using snappy for pdf.

Answer 1

I think you want to send pdf as an attachment in your email without saving it in your system .
your can refer the following code to do this .
public function sendmail()
{
$data["email"]='useremail#gmail.com';
$data["client_name"]='user_name';
$data["subject"]='sending pdf as attachment';
//Generating PDF with all the post details
$pdf = PDF::loadView('userdata'); // this view file will be converted to PDF
//Sending Mail to the corresponding user
Mail::send([], $data, function($message)use($data,$pdf) {
$message->to($data["email"], $data["client_name"])
->subject($data["subject"])
->attachData($pdf->output(), 'Your_Post_Detail.pdf', [
'mime' => 'application/pdf',
])
->setBody('Hi, welcome user! this is the body of the mail');
});
}
hope it helped you .
for better understanding you can follow this article
how to send pdf as an attachment in email in laravel

Answer 2

I dont know how to first change this file into pdf and then send as attachment. I am using snappy for pdf.
So that's the problem right there. You are attaching an HTML file, and simply naming it as if it's a PDF. That won't work. You do indeed need to generate this PDF from the HTML view that you render.
Here is the documentation for snappy:
https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-snappy#usage
I suggest you to read up on it, as the examples given there are pretty straight forward and easy to understand.
This is untested, but if you've set up Snappy correctly, based on your code, something like this should work:
$snappy = App::make('snappy.pdf');
$director_info_pdf = $snappy->getOutputFromHtml(view('directors_info',compact('data'))->render());