Gearman - Mass email PDF's

emailclient.php

<?php
# create our client object
$gmclient= new GearmanClient();

# add the default server (localhost)
$gmclient->addServer();

# run email client in the background
$arr = array($_GET['id'],$_GET['msg']);
$data = serialize($arr); //serialize to send data
$job_handle = $gmclient->doBackground("email_quote", $data); //run email_quote function in gearman worker

if ($gmclient->returnCode() != GEARMAN_SUCCESS)
{
  echo "Bad return code\n";
  exit;
}

?>

gearmanWorker.php

<?php
// include TCPDF information and PHPMailer information for your installation
// there are some internal functions that are in other includes but i omitted them for the sake of a lengthy GIST

echo "Starting\n";
$gmworker= new GearmanWorker();
$gmworker->addServer();
$gmworker->addFunction("email_quote","email_fn");

print "Waiting for job...\n";
while($gmworker->work())
{
  if ($gmworker->returnCode() != GEARMAN_SUCCESS)
  {
    echo "return_code: " . $gmworker->returnCode() . "\n";
    break;
  }
}


function email_fn($job)
{
	echo "Received job: " . $job->handle() . "\n";
	$data = unserialize($job->workload());  //expecting serialized data (PDF id and msg)
	echo "ID : ".$data[0] . "\n";
	echo "Msg : ".$data[1] . "\n"; //optional
	$id = $data[0]; 
	$msg = $data[1];

        echo "Creating PDF\n";
	$url  = 'http://www.example.com/pdf.php?id='.$id; //used to generate a PDF using TCPDF
	$path = 'quotes/'.$id.'.pdf'; //save path for PDF
	$fp = fopen($path, 'w'); //open file path for saving PDF
	$ch = curl_init($url);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
	$data = curl_exec($ch);
	curl_close($ch);
	fclose($fp);
			
	echo "Instantiating PHPMailer\n";
	$mail = new PHPMailer();
	$mail->IsSMTP();
	$mail->Host = "ssl://smtpauth.centurytel.net";
	$mail->SMTPDebug = 1;
	$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
	$mail->Port = 465;
	$mail->Username = '[email protected]';
	$mail->Password = 'strongpassword';
	$mail->SetFrom('[email protected]', 'Stephen Hawking');

	echo "Generating Data\n";
	$body = "Hello,<br>
	<br>
	Attached is the quote you requested.  If there is anything else we can assist you with, please let us know
        <br>
	<br>
	Thank You<br>";

	if ($msg != ''){
		$body .= "<br>Personal Message: " .$msg;
	}
	
	try {
	 $mail->AddReplyTo('[email protected]','Stephen Hawking');
	 $emailarray = explode(";",$contact[1]);
	 $mail->AddAddress($email,'');
 	 echo "Addressing Contacts\n";
	 $mail->Subject = 'Quote#: '.$id;
	 $mail->AddAttachment('quotes/'.$id.'.pdf');
	 $mail->AltBody = 'Please use an HTML compatible email viewer to view this message!';
	 $mail->MsgHTML($body);
	 $mail->Send();
	} catch (phpmailerException $e) {
	 die( $e->errorMessage()); //Pretty error!
	} catch (Exception $e) {
	 die( $e->getMessage()); //not pretty :(
	}

	set_quote_emailed($id);
	return ($id);
}

?>