Laravel (5.7) Mail

Step 1: Install Laravel

composer create-project laravel/laravel emailsend --prefer-dist

After that, we need to define the Email configuration inside the .env file.

Step 2: Email Configuration

For this example, I am using mailtrap. It is a kind of application, which you can use to test your emails. After you will signup, you can see that it provides us following kinds of details.

Host:	smtp.mailtrap.io
Port:	25 or 465 or 2525
Username:	// some username
Password:	// some password
Auth:	PLAIN, LOGIN and CRAM-MD5
TLS:	Optional

We have to use these details inside the .env file.

MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.mailtrap.io
MAIL_PORT=2525
MAIL_USERNAME= // some username
MAIL_PASSWORD= // some password
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=null

If you are using Gmail or your company email address, then please replace your respected credentials here.

Step 3: Create Mailable class

Go to a terminal and type the following command.

php artisan make:mail SendMailable

So, it will create this file inside App\Mail\SendMailable.php.Now, this class contains one property, and that is a namewhich we need to pass when we build this class's instance.

<?php

namespace App\Mail;

use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
use Illuminate\Mail\Mailable;
use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;

class SendMailable extends Mailable
{
    use Queueable, SerializesModels;
    public $name;

    /**
     * Create a new message instance.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function __construct($name)
    {
        $this->name = $name;
    }

    /**
     * Build the message.
     *
     * @return $this
     */
    public function build()
    {
        return $this->view('emails.name');
    }
}

Here in this class, I have used the parameterized constructor. So we have $name property in our class. Now, we need to create a blade file inside the views folder. We can use that $name property as a data of the view name.blade.php file. Now, first form that view.

Step 4: Create a view file.

Inside views folder, it is better to create a new folder called email and in that folder, make one file called name.blade.php.

<div>
    Hi, This is : {{ $name }}
</div>

Step 5: Define the route to send an email

Inside routes  >>  web.php file, we need to define the route to send an email.

Route::get('/send/email', 'HomeController@mail');

Now, we need to write the code inside mail function to send an email.

// HomeController.php

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Mail;
use App\Mail\SendMailable;

public function mail()
{
   $name = 'Krunal';
   Mail::to('[email protected]')->send(new SendMailable($name));
   
   return 'Email was sent';
}

We have included Mailable class and Mail facade. For this example, we have hardcode the name value, but in a real-time example, we have dynamic data to generate an email.

Step 6: Start the server.

Go to your terminal and hit the following command.

php artisan serve

Go to this URL: http://localhost:8000/send/email

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