Hey everyone. I’m creating a script which generates a QR code and sends the customer an image of the Qr code as an email attachment. The script works fine when I test it on my own. However, the problem is that the image is saved locally and then sent as an attachment. I obviously can’t do this when the script is ran on a web server.
How can I send an image without saving it locally? Can I save it on the database as a blob, send it, and remove it from the database?
Try using a Google API, here is a function I am currently working on… This should get you started
[php]function qr_code($data, $type = “TXT”, $size =‘150’, $ec=‘L’, $margin=‘0’) {
$types = array(‘URL’, ‘EMAIL’, ‘TEL’, ‘MECARD’, ‘VCARD’, ‘SMS’, ‘MMS’, ‘GEO’, ‘PLAY’, ‘WIFI’, ‘YOUTUBE’, ‘FACEBOOK’, ‘TWITTER’, ‘INSTAGRAM’, ‘TXT’);
$errorimg = ‘’;
if (in_array(strtoupper($type), $types)){
switch(strtoupper($type)){
case 'URL':{
$data = (preg_match('/^http:\/\//', $data) || preg_match('/^https:\/\//', $data) ? $data : 'http://'.$data);
break;
}
case 'EMAIL':{
$data = (preg_match('/^mailto:/', $data) ? $data : 'mailto:'.$data);
break;
}
case 'TEL':{
$data = (preg_match('/^tel:/', $data) ? $data : 'tel:'.$data);
break;
}
case 'MECARD':{
if (is_array($data)){
} else {
return $errorimg;
}
break;
}
case 'VCARD':{
if (is_array($data)){
$data = 'BEGIN:VCARD'."\n".'VERSION:3.0'."\n".'N:'.$data[0]." ".$data[1]."\n".'ORG:'.$data[2]."\n".'TITLE:'.$data[3]."\n".'TEL:'.$data[4]."\n".'URL:'.$data[5]."\n".'EMAIL:'.$data[6]."\n".'ADR:'.$data[7]."\n".'NOTE:'.$data[8]."\n"."END:VCARD";
} else {
return $errorimg;
}
break;
}
case 'CAL':{
if (is_array($data)){
$data = 'BEGIN:VEVENT'."\n".'VERSION:3.0'."\n".'SUMMARY:'.$data[0]."\n".'DTSTART:'.$data[2]."\n".'DTEND:'.$data[4]."\n".'LOCATION:'.$data[3]."\n".'DESCRIPTION:'.$data[5]."\n"."END:VEVENT";
/*
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Test
DTSTART:20170219T230000Z
DTEND:20170221T030000Z
LOCATION:Visalia, California
DESCRIPTION:Meeting with someone
END:VEVENT
*/
} else {
return $errorimg;
}
break;
}
case 'SMS':{
if (is_array($data)){
$data = 'smsto:'.$data[0].':'.$data[1];
} else {
return $errorimg;
}
break;
}
case 'MMS':{
if (is_array($data)){
$data = 'mmsto:'.$data[0].':'.$data[1];
} else {
return $errorimg;
}
break;
}
case 'GEO':{
if (is_array($data)){
} else {
return $errorimg;
}
break;
}
case 'WIFI':{
if (is_array($data)){
} else {
return $errorimg;
}
break;
}
case 'PLAY':{
if (is_array($data)){
} else {
return $errorimg;
}
break;
}
case 'YOUTUBE':{
$data = (preg_match('/^youtube:/', $data) ? 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v='.preg_replace("/^youtube:/i", '', $data) : 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v='.$data);
break;
}
case 'FACEBOOK':{
$data = (preg_match('/^facebook:/', $data) ? 'https://www.facebook.com/'.preg_replace("/^facebook:/i", '', $data) : 'https://www.facebook.com/'.$data);
break;
}
case 'TWITTER':{
$data = (preg_match('/^twitter:/', $data) ? 'https://www.twitter.com/'.preg_replace("/^twitter:/i", '', $data) : 'https://www.twitter.com/'.$data);
break;
}
case 'INSTAGRAM':{
$data = (preg_match('/^instagram:/', $data) ? 'https://www.instagram.com/watch?v='.preg_replace("/^instagram:/i", '', $data) : 'https://www.instagram.com/'.$data);
break;
}
case 'TXT':{
if (is_array($data)){
} else {
return $errorimg;
}
break;
}
}
}
#$types = array("URL" => "http://", "TEL" => "TEL:", "TXT"=>"", "EMAIL" => "MAILTO:");
#if(!in_array($type, array("URL", "TEL", "TXT", "EMAIL"))) {
# $type = "TXT";
#}
#if (!preg_match('/^'.$types[$type].'/', $data)) {
# $data = str_replace("\\", "", $types[$type]).$data;
#}
$data = urlencode($data);
$response = 'http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs='.$size.'x'.$size.'&cht=qr&chld='.$ec.'|'.$margin.'&chl='.$data;
return $response;
}[/php]
Why can’t you save it as a temp file, send the mail and delete the file?
Anyway PHPMailer (and probably most other) mailers support adding attachments from strings. If you decide to use PHPMailer then look up AddStringAttachment