Laravel: grab html from the view and send it as a mail attachment

Question

I have a blade template that generates the content that I need:

invoice.blade.php

//nothing interesting here, just html

I have a route to access this view by a link:

web.php

Route::get('/invoice/{id}', function ($id) {return view('invoice.invoice')->with('id', $id);});

What is the better way to send the html file (which is generated by this route) by laravel mailer? I tried to do it in this way:

$file = file_get_contents(url('invoice/1')); Mail::send([], [], function ($message) use ($file) { ... $message->attach($file, [ 'as' => 'file-name', 'mime' => 'text/html', ]); });

Mailer works fine, but get an error about maximum execution time exceeded for file_get_contents (I know it can be fixed by allow_url_fopen PHP setting), also I know about curl method, but it also not available for test for me right now by server settings. So my question is: do we have another way to implement this? Which way is better (faster)?

It was too late and I tried to be too clever. Good, that you found out how to do it. Wouldn't it be easier to generate PDF instead? — Kyslik
– Kyslik, Commented Mar 19, 2018 at 8:59

Alex · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-19 08:51:37Z

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Solved by view()->render() and mailer ->attachData() functions.

$file = view('invoice.invoice_inline', ['id' => $id])->render(); Mail::send([], [], function ($message) use ($file) { ... $message->attachData($file, 'filename.html', ['mime' => 'text/html']); });

answered Mar 19, 2018 at 8:51

Alex

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cfnerd Over a year ago

I definitely owe you a beer, my friend. What I am working on is a bit different, but close enough that this helped a ton.

Alemoh Rapheal Baja Over a year ago

This is really awesome. It works fine and faster than generating pdf

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