Laravel 5: Sending email with attached .pdf file generated from dynamic page

Question

I have a job website. Job seeker users can register and build their profile (online resume), and it is used for one click application.

When job seekers logged in and click "Apply Now" button to any job, I want Laravel to send an email attached with .PDF resume (generated from their online resume building page) to employer's inbox.

Note: I do not want to send their uploaded resume (.pdf/.doc) to employer's inbox because I want to promote my website's branding / resume template.

Please tell me how to achieve this. If any source code provided, I would appreciated.

thank you.

Answer 1

You can use a html to pdf converter (something like http://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-dompdf). This will create the users profile in PDF format.

After the user clicked the button there will be an email sended to the employer with the attached pdf from the user.

It will look something like this:

    Mail::send('emails.reminder', ['user' => $user], function ($m) use ($user) {
        $m->to($user->email, $user->name)->subject('Your Reminder!');

        $m->attach($pathToFile);
    });

And with custom mail per email:

    Mail::send('emails.reminder', ['user' => $user], function ($m) use ($user) {
        $m->from('[email protected]', 'Your Application');
        $m->to($user->email, $user->name)->subject('Your Reminder!');

        $m->attach($pathToFile);
    });

This will create the PDF, save it to the storage directory. You can use the views for the design:

public function createCollageCron($load_id) {
    $load = Loads::findOrFail($load_id);

    $pdf = PDF::loadView('pdf.collage', compact('load'));
    if ($pdf->save(storage_path('app/loadings/'.$load->id.'/collage.pdf'))) {
        return true;
    } else {
        return false;
    }
}

Hope this works!