Can anyone help me find the error that I am overlooking?
I can use the following code to generate a pdf that I can save and open in Acrobat.
<?php
require("fpdf.php");
$pdf = new FPDF();
$pdf->AddPage();
$pdf->SetFont("Arial","B",14);
$pdf->Cell(40,10, "this is a pdf example");
$pdf->Output();
?>
I can then use the same code combined in the code below to generate a pdf as an email attachment. I get an error when I try to open the pdf in Acrobat, but when I save the emailed attachment and open it in an editor I noticed that the first 5 lines of the pdf output are missing or corrupted.
Here are the diferences
--Good PDF output viewed as text starts like this--
%PDF-1.3
3 0 obj
<</Type /Page
/Parent 1 0 R
/Resources 2 0 R
/Contents 4 0 R>>
endobj
4 0 obj
--Bad PDF output viewed as text starts like this--
0 R
/Contents 4 0 R>>
endobj
4 0 obj
--Notice that lines 1 thru 4 are missing and only the end of line 5 got output
--Here is the code I use to create and email the atachment that is bad
<?php
require("fpdf.php");
$pdf = new FPDF();
$pdf->AddPage();
$pdf->SetFont("Arial","B",14);
$pdf->Cell(40,10, "this is a pdf example");
$to = "myself@mysite.com";
$from = "me@domain.com";
$subject = "send email with pdf attachment";
$message = "<p>Please see the attachment.</p>";
$separator = md5(time());
$eol = PHP_EOL;
$filename = "example.pdf";
$pdfdoc = $pdf->Output("", "S");
$attachment = chunk_split(base64_encode($pdfdoc));
$headers = "From: ".$from.$eol;
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0".$eol;
$headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"".$separator."\"".$eol.$eol;
$headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit".$eol;
$headers .= "This is a MIME encoded message.".$eol.$eol;
$headers .= "--".$separator.$eol;
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"".$eol;
$headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit".$eol.$eol;
$headers .= $message.$eol.$eol;
$headers .= "--".$separator.$eol;
$headers .= "Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name=\"".$filename."\"".$eol;
$headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64".$eol;
$headers .= "Content-Disposition: attachment".$eol.$eol;
$headers .= $attachment.$eol.$eol;
$headers .= "--".$separator."--";
mail($to, $subject, "", $headers);
?>
