Attaching PDF generated through Laravel to Mailable - laravel

Question

At the moment I currently use laravel-snappy to generate my PDFs from pages, I do this primarily because it plays really nice with some JavaScript scripts I have on a few of my generated pages.
I know it's possible to attach an attachment of sorts to a mailable, which is what I have been using at the suggestions of others until the notifiables get a few more things worked on with them.
But I am stuck as to whether or not it's possible to attach a generated PDF to a mailable.
At the moment, I send the PDFs to generate through a route:
Route::get('/shipments/download/{shipment}','ShipmentController#downloadPDF');
Which is then sent to here in the controller:
public function downloadPDF(Shipment $shipment){
$shipment_details = $shipment->shipment_details;
$pdf = PDF::loadView('shipments.pdf', compact('shipment','shipment_details'))
->setOption('images', true)
->setOption('enable-javascript', true)
->setOption('javascript-delay', 100);
return $pdf->download('shipment'.$shipment->url_string.'.pdf');
}
My mailable is defined as such:
<?php
namespace App\Mail;
use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
use Illuminate\Mail\Mailable;
use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
use App\Shipment;
class newFreightBill extends Mailable
{
use Queueable, SerializesModels;
/**
* Create a new message instance.
*
* #return void
*/
public $shipment;
public function __construct(Shipment $shipment)
{
$this->shipment = $shipment;
$this->attachmentURL = $shipment->url_string;
$this->proNumber = $shipment->pro_number;
}
/**
* Build the message.
*
* #return $this
*/
public function build()
{
return $this->from('billing#cmxtrucking.com')
->subject('New Freight Bill Created - '. $this->proNumber)
->view('emails.shipments.created');
}
}
So, is it possible to attach a generated PDF?

Answer 1

You can use attach to send files via mail. For example:-
public function build()
{
return $this->from('billing#cmxtrucking.com')
->subject('New Freight Bill Created - '. $this->proNumber)
->view('emails.shipments.created')
->attach($your_pdf_file_path_goes_here);
}
This worked for me while i was trying. Hope it works for you too.

Answer 2

Here i am using laravel package "vsmoraes/laravel-pdf" for pdf generation
steps :
1) render view with dynamic data
2) load this view to pdf
3) attach pdf data to the mail
$html = view('pdf',compact('result','score'))->render();
$pdf = PDF::Load($html);
\Mail::send('mail.analysis',['user'=>$data],function($message) use($pdf,$user){
$message->to($user->email)->subject("Page Speed Aanlysis Generated");
$message->attachData($pdf->output(),'pdf_name.pdf');
});