How to send Email in Laravel using gmail

Question:

How to send Email in Laravel using gmail?

Solution:

So, we want to send an email to others or to admins or any email and that is in Laravel. Laravel use SwiftMailer Library to send email and for us that is a pretty nice and simple work.

First Step:

We want to send email through gmail. So, we need to setup the gmail account, common sense. Go to gmail account > Sign-in & security > App Password > Generate an app password > Copy the 16 digit password. In that page select mail and select windows computer and generate an app password, See the image after generating an app password.


So, Now I've a 16 digit app password.

Second Step:

Go to env file and edit the  last part mail options like this,

MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.gmail.com
MAIL_PORT=587
MAIL_USERNAME=your_email@gmail.com
MAIL_PASSWORD=your_16_digit_password
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls

Ok, now you've setted. Run the config:cache and config:clear command.

php artisan config:cache
php artisan config:clear

Third Step:

For sending email I'll just test this for Contact Page.

Contact Page html Form code is

<form action="{{ route('contact') }}" method="POST">
 {{ csrf_field() }}
 <div class="form-row">
  <div class="form-group col-md-6">
   <label for="name" class="col-form-label">Name</label>
   <input type="text" class="form-control" id="name" placeholder="your name" name="name" required>
  </div>

  <div class="form-group col-md-6">
   <label for="email" class="col-form-label">Email</label>
   <input type="email" class="form-control" id="email" placeholder="Email" name="email" required>
  </div>
  
 </div>
 <div class="form-group">
  <label for="message" class="col-form-label">Message</label>
  <textarea class="form-control" id="message" rows="10" name="message" required></textarea>
 </div>
 
 <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Send Now</button>
</form>

The output of that HTML form is look like(Using some css extras),

In routes.php or web.php the post contact route is,

Route::post('/contact', 'PageController@sendContact')->name('contact');

Now the Controller sendContact post function is to send a mail in Laravel,

public function sendContact(Request $request){
  $this->validate($request, array(
   'name' => 'required|max:20',
   'email' => 'required|email',
   'message' => 'required',
  ));

  $data = array(
   'name'   =>$request->name,
   'email'   => $request->email,
   'messageBody'  => $request->message
  );
  
  Mail::send('emails.contact', $data, function($message) use ($data){
   $message->from($data['email']);
   $message->to('your_email@gmail.com');
   $message->subject('Contact Message From Your Site');
  });

  $request->session()->flash('success', 'Message has sent to admin successfully..!!');
  return view('pages.contact');
 }

Note: use Mail at top of that class.

 use Mail; 

Now Look at the Mail::send() function by which Laravel send email to other.

Mail::send('emails.contact', $data, function($message) use ($data){

The function in Mail::send(),
the First parameter 'emails.contact' is the view file, which is in the views/emails/contact.blade.php,
The Second parameter is the $data- the data as an array of the requested user.
The Third is the function including $message as argument


So, we need also an contact.blade.php file which is in the views/emails/ directory,
views/emails/contact.blade.php file is -

<div style="background: #AAAEB4">
 <h2 style="text-align: center; background: #4585f4; padding: 25px;">Contact Message From {{ $name }}</h2>
 <div style="background: #FFFF99;padding: 30px;">
  <h3 style="text-align: center">Contact Message</h3><hr />
  <p>Email - {{ $email }}</p>
  <div>
   {{ $messageBody }}
  </div>
 </div>
 <div style="margin-top: 20px; padding: 10px">
  <p style="text-align: center">&copy; All rights reserved <a href="#">PSTU Students</a> - 2017</p>
 </div>
</div>

Everythings Done..!!! Now Fill out the form and submit the contact form and look at your inbox of gmail account. In above example, the email format for a specific user is

So, we have completed our email through gmail and if you face any problem, just comment out below, Thanks.


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