#6529: Attaching PDFs to Emails
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Reporter: oh4real | Type: Enhancement
Status: new | Priority: Medium
Milestone: 1.2.x.x | Component: Components
Version: 1.2 Final | Severity: Normal
Keywords: | Php_version: PHP 5
Cake_version: 1.2.1.8004 |
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For portability/replication/etc. reasons, my app generates and stores PDFs
(invoices, purchase orders, etc.) as MySQL blobs. I could either spend
time figuring out how to pull the field from db, write to a tmp file, add
that tmp filepath to Email->attachments[], and after Email->send()
completes (success or failure) delete the tmp filepath.
[[BR]]
Instead, I modified the EmailComponent class's _attachFiles() method as
below to accomplish this for me.
[[BR]]
My current modified Email->_attachFiles():
{{{
function __attachFiles() {
$files = array();
foreach ($this->attachments as $attachment) {
if(is_array($attachment)) {
$files[] = $attachment;
} else {
$file = $this->__findFiles($attachment);
if (!empty($file)) {
$files[] = $file;
}
}
}
foreach ($files as $file) {
if(is_array($file)) {
$data = current($file);
$name = key($file);
$data = chunk_split(base64_encode($data));
$this->__message[] = '--' .
$this->__boundary;
$this->__message[] = 'Content-Type:
application/octet-stream';
$this->__message[] = 'Content-Transfer-
Encoding: base64';
$this->__message[] = 'Content-Disposition:
attachment; filename="' . $name . '"';
$this->__message[] = '';
$this->__message[] = $data;
$this->__message[] = '';
} else {
$handle = fopen($file, 'rb');
$data = fread($handle, filesize($file));
$data = chunk_split(base64_encode($data));
fclose($handle);
$this->__message[] = '--' .
$this->__boundary;
$this->__message[] = 'Content-Type:
application/octet-stream';
$this->__message[] = 'Content-Transfer-
Encoding: base64';
$this->__message[] = 'Content-Disposition:
attachment; filename="' . basename($file) . '"';
$this->__message[] = '';
$this->__message[] = $data;
$this->__message[] = '';
}
}
}
}}}
[[BR]]
I think y'all are considering expanding Email->_attachFiles() to include
array() inputs for Email->attachments[] where the key is the name and the
value is the filepath - instead of simply using basename($file). Perhaps
adding a specific key ('blob_files'?) that tells the EmailComponent to NOT
open, read, close a file - but just chunk-encode it.
[[BR]]
One suggestion for future to prevent conflict with your proposed
Email->attachments = array('customName' => 'path_to_file') would be
something like:
{{{
function __attachFiles() {
$files = array();
foreach ($this->attachments as $attachment) {
if(is_array($attachment)) {
$files[] = $attachment;
} else {
$file = $this->__findFiles($attachment);
if (!empty($file)) {
$files[] = $file;
}
}
}
foreach ($files as $file) {
if(is_array($file)) {
foreach($file as $filename => $filepath) {
if($filename == 'blob_files') {
foreach($filepath as $name
=> $blob) {
$data =
chunk_split(base64_encode($blob));
$this->__message[]
= '--' . $this->__boundary;
$this->__message[]
= 'Content-Type: application/octet-stream';
$this->__message[]
= 'Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64';
$this->__message[]
= 'Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="' . $name . '"';
$this->__message[]
= '';
$this->__message[]
= $data;
$this->__message[]
= '';
}
}
else {
$handle = fopen($filepath,
'rb');
$data = fread($handle,
filesize($filepath));
$data =
chunk_split(base64_encode($data));
fclose($handle);
$this->__message[] = '--'
. $this->__boundary;
$this->__message[] =
'Content-Type: application/octet-stream';
$this->__message[] =
'Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64';
$this->__message[] =
'Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="' . $filename . '"';
$this->__message[] = '';
$this->__message[] =
$data;
$this->__message[] = '';
}
}
} else {
$handle = fopen($file, 'rb');
$data = fread($handle, filesize($file));
$data = chunk_split(base64_encode($data));
fclose($handle);
$this->__message[] = '--' .
$this->__boundary;
$this->__message[] = 'Content-Type:
application/octet-stream';
$this->__message[] = 'Content-Transfer-
Encoding: base64';
$this->__message[] = 'Content-Disposition:
attachment; filename="' . basename($file) . '"';
$this->__message[] = '';
$this->__message[] = $data;
$this->__message[] = '';
}
}
}
}}}
One could, of course, just check to see if $filepath with something like
this pseudo-code:
{{{
(is_file|file_exists($filepath)) ? process $filepath as file : (($filepath
is NOT a file path by REGEX) ? chunk_split(encode($filepath)) : ignore);
}}}
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