Dynamic email attachments in cakephp - email

Question

Is it possible to send an email with an dynamically generated attachment?
I tried it this way:
$this->Email->attachments = array(
'reservation.ics' => array(
'controller' => 'reservations',
'action' => 'ical',
'ext' => 'ics',
$this->data['Reservation']['id']
)
);
But it didn't work.

Answer 1

attachments only takes paths to local files on the server, not URLs. You need to render your attachment to a temporary file, then attach it.
In your controller, this could roughly look like this:
$this->autoRender = false;
$content = $this->render();
file_put_contents(
TMP . 'reservation' . $id . '.ics',
$content
);
$this->Email->attachments = array(
'reservation.ics' => TMP . 'reservation' . $id . '.ics'
);

Answer 2

There are another method to send attachment. firstly store this file on the server then use the server path to send. In the below example I skip the code to store attachment file. There is code for attachment only.
Class EmailController extends AppController {
var $name="Email";
var $components = array ('Email');
var $uses = NULL;
function beforeFilter() {
parent::beforeFilter();
$this->Auth->allow(array(*));
}
function EmailSend(){
$Path = WWW_ROOT."img";
$fileName = 'test.jpg';
$this->Email->from = 'Amit Jha<amit#mail.com>';
$this->Email->to = 'Test<test#test.com>';
$this->Email->subject = 'Test Email Send With Attacment';
$this->Email->attachments = array($Path.$fileName);
$this->Email->template = 'simple_message';
$this->Email->sendAs = 'html';
if($this->Email->send()){
$this->session->setFlash("Email Send Successfully");
$this->redirect('somecontroller/someaction');
}
}