title: How to use TCPDF with PHP mail function
body: <pre><code>$to = 'my@email.ca';
  $subject = 'Receipt';
  $repEmail = 'rep@sales.ca';
  
  $fileName = 'receipt.pdf';
  $fileatt = $pdf-&gt;Output($fileName, 'E');
  $attachment = chunk_split($fileatt);
  $eol = PHP_EOL;
  $separator = md5(time());
  
  $headers = 'From: Sender &lt;'.$repEmail.'&gt;'.$eol;
  $headers .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' .$eol;
  $headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"".$separator."\"";
  
  $message = "--".$separator.$eol;
  $message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit".$eol.$eol;
  $message .= "This is a MIME encoded message.".$eol;
  
  $message .= "--".$separator.$eol;
  $message .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"".$eol;
  $message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit".$eol.$eol;
  
  $message .= "--".$separator.$eol;
  $message .= "Content-Type: application/pdf; name=\"".$fileName."\"".$eol; 
  $message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64".$eol;
  $message .= "Content-Disposition: attachment".$eol.$eol;
  $message .= $attachment.$eol;
  $message .= "--".$separator."--";
  
  if (mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers)){
  $action = 'action=Receipt%20Sent';
  header('Location: ../index.php?'.$action);
  }
  
  else {
  $action = 'action=Send%20Failed';
  header('Location: ../index.php?'.$action);
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have been using TCPDF for a short amount of time now to generate PDF files from forms. It works quite well and that part of the PHP has not changed. Now I want to send those PDF files to my email account.</p>
  
  <p>The emailing is actually working with this coding and attaching a PDF. The issue is that it is simply a blank PDF at rough 100 bytes in size. Which of course is not a valid PDF nor does it have anything to do with the responses from the form.</p>
  
  <p>I am really not familiar with the attaching of files to an email in PHP and any help resolving this issue would be greatly appreciated.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Update</strong></p>
  
  <p>Since it seems like several people are looking at this still I will post my current solution. It involves downloading PHPMailer as suggested below. I have started at the output line for TCPDF.</p>
  
  <pre><code>$attachment = $makepdf-&gt;Output('filename.pdf', 'S');
  SENDmail($attachment);
  
  function SENDmail($pdf) {
  require_once('phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php');
  $mailer = new PHPMailer();
  
  $mailer-&gt;AddReplyTo('reply@to.ca', 'Reply To');
  $mailer-&gt;SetFrom('sent@from.ca', 'Sent From');
  $mailer-&gt;AddReplyTo('reply@to.ca', 'Reply To');
  $mailer-&gt;AddAddress('send@to.ca', 'Send To');
  $mailer-&gt;Subject = 'Message with PDF';
  $mailer-&gt;AltBody = "To view the message, please use an HTML compatible email viewer";
  $mailer-&gt;MsgHTML('&lt;p&gt;Message contents&lt;/p&gt;'));
  if ($pdf) {$mailer-&gt;AddStringAttachment($pdf, 'filename.pdf');}
  
  $mailer-&gt;Send();
  }
  </code></pre>