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Yoel Rodriguez
Asked: 2020-04-25 13:48:30 +0800 CST 2020-04-25 13:48:30 +0800 CST

The file is not attached as a pdf, phpmailer from google drive

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I have the following situation:

I am attaching a pdf file , which is in google drive using phpmailer . What happens to me is that when I send the email with the attachment, when I download the file to the machine it tells me that it cannot be opened and if I try to open it from the Gmail client it opens it but not as a pdf document but rather as a document that can be edited.

When I try to open the pdf document with the pdf reader it gives me the following message:

The file type HTML document (text/html) is not allowed

The code I'm using to attach the file is as follows:

File reading:

    $path = "https://drive.google.com/open?id=18hMk_9TmC3dsCjwe0RQ1Ka-qaqs4uMcD"
    $fichero = file_get_contents($path);

phpmailer methods for attachment

$xmail->addStringAttachment($fichero,comprobante.pdf);

Thanks.

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I already managed to solve the problem I had. I leave you here how I solved it in case someone else gets this error that he gave me. I did the solution using the same google-drive api that has an example to download the files. Instead of using the file_get_contents() method, use the example in the api . Here is the code:

    $response = $service->files->get($fileId, array(
    'alt' => 'media'));
$fichero = $response->getBody()->getContents();

    $fileId (it is the id of the file in google-drive)

    Google-Drive example link

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