Laravel Mail
Laravel has made mail sending simple, clean, fast, and reliable by providing simple email API component using drivers like SMTP, Mailgun, Postmark, etc. The emails can be sent through a cloud or local service. Let's setup a simple mail locally using laravel.
Steps
Get a mail service provider. We will use Mailtrap as our test provider.
Create an account and copy and paste the configuration for Laravel in .env file.
You can skip this if you already have a mail provider.
MAIL_MAILER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.mailtrap.io
MAIL_PORT=2525
MAIL_USERNAME=//username
MAIL_PASSWORD=//password
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls
Create a new laravel project
composer create-project laravel/laravel laravelmail
Make a mailable class.
php artisan make:mail SimpleMail
The mail class can be found at /app/Mail/SimpleMail.php. Copy this block of code and replace it with yours.
<?php
namespace App\Mail;
use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
use Illuminate\Mail\Mailable;
use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels;
class SimpleMail extends Mailable
{
use Queueable, SerializesModels;
/**
* Create a new message instance.
*
* @return void
*/
public function __construct()
{
//
}
/**
* Build the message.
*
* @return $this
*/
public function build()
{
return $this->from(config('MAIL_USERNAME'))
->view('mail.simplemail');
}
}
Create a controller for mailable class
php artisan make:controller SimpleMailController
The created controller can be found at app/Http/Controllers/SimpleMailController.php, replace this code with yours.
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Mail;
class SimpleMailController extends Controller
{
public function index() {
$passingDataToView = 'Simple Mail Send In Laravel!';
$data["email"] = 'test@mail.com';
$data["title"] = "Mail Testing";
Mail::send('mail.simplemail', ['passingDataToView'=> $passingDataToView], function ($message) use ($data){
$message->to($data["email"],'John Doe');
$message->subject($data["title"]);
});;
return 'Mail Sent';
}
}
Create a view for the mailable class.
Goto the resource folder and create a folder named mail, then create a blade file named simplemail inside the mail folder. Your file path should look like this resources\mail\simplemail.blade.php. Then paste this code inside the simplemail.blade.php file.
<div style="background-color: white;border: 2px solid #0f0870;box-shadow: 20px -13px 1px 1px #0f0870;
width: fit-content;padding: 1rem 1rem;font-family: system-ui;">
<h4 style="text-align: center; font-size: large;"> {{ $passingDataToView }}</h4>
<h4 style="font-size: medium"> This is a custom mail</h4>
<p style="font-size: medium">
Laravel provides flexiblity for you to design your mail format to your liking
</p>
<p style="font-size: medium">
Enjoy and explore the world of infinite possibilities
</p>
<small>Thanks for checking this tutorial out.</small>
<p style="display:flex;justify-content: center;align-items: center;">
<a style="padding: 1rem;background-color: #0f0870;
width: max-content;color: white;text-decoration: none;"
href="https://medium.com/@manu_tech">
Custom Button
</a>
</p>
</div>
Create a route to send mail.
<?php
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;
use App\Http\Controllers\SimpleMailController;
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Web Routes
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here is where you can register web routes for your application. These
| routes are loaded by the RouteServiceProvider within a group which
| contains the "web" middleware group. Now create something great!
|
*/
Route::get('/', function () {
return view('welcome');
});
Route::get('sendmail', [SimpleMailController::class, 'index']);
Preview
Now run the server
php artisan serve
Then goto http://127.0.0.1:8000/sendmail
In mail inbox (Mailtrap)
Top comments (1)
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