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Laravel’s Mail API allows developers to send email messages from their Laravel applications. Laravel provides several ways to send email, including using the built-in Mail facade, a third-party library like Swift Mailer, or a cloud-based service like Mailgun or Sendgrid.
To get started with Laravel’s Mail API, you’ll need to configure your application’s .env file with your email settings. Laravel supports several drivers for sending email, including SMTP, Mailgun, and Sendmail. You can choose the driver that best fits your needs and configure it in the .env file.
Once your email settings are configured, you can use the Mail facade to send email messages. The Mail facade provides several methods for building and sending email messages, including the send, queue, and later methods.
Here’s an example of using the Mail facade to send a simple email message:
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Mail;
Mail::send('emails.welcome', ['data' => $data], function ($message) {
$message->from('hello@example.com', 'Your Application');
$message->to('user@example.com');
$message->subject('Welcome to Your Application!');
});
In this example, we’re using the send method to send an email with a subject and a message body. The message body is defined in a view file called emails.welcome, which can contain HTML and dynamic data. The $data variable passed to the view file contains data that can be used to customize the message for the recipient.
The Mail facade also provides several methods for attaching files to email messages, including the attach and attachData methods. Here’s an example of using the attach method to attach a file to an email message:
Mail::send('emails.invoice', ['invoice' => $invoice], function ($message) use ($invoice) {
$message->from('billing@example.com', 'Your Invoice');
$message->to($invoice->customer_email);
$message->subject('Invoice ' . $invoice->invoice_number);
$message->attach('/path/to/invoice.pdf', [
'as' => 'invoice.pdf',
'mime' => 'application/pdf',
]);
});
In this example, we’re using the attach method to attach a PDF file to the email message. The as and mime options allow us to specify the file name and MIME type of the attachment.
Laravel also provides support for sending email messages using a queue. This can be useful if you want to send a large number of emails or if you want to send emails in the background so that they don’t slow down the user’s experience. To use a queue, you can use the queue or later methods instead of the send method.
Overall, Laravel’s Mail API is a powerful and flexible tool for sending email messages from your Laravel applications. Whether you’re sending simple text-based messages or complex HTML messages with attachments, Laravel makes it easy to get your messages delivered to your users.
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