Markdown Emails Made Simple: Laravel 7 Walkthrough

How to send Markdown Mail to single and multiple emails in Laravel

Laravel provides you different way to send Mail , in this article we learn how to send mail using markdown mails . We will use mailtrap for sending mail in this article . Let's see how to use markdown mail in Laravel .

Table of Content :

Setup Mail Configuration
Setup your Route
Generate Markdown Mail
Call your Mail from controller

Step 1 - Setup Mail Configuration :

The very first step is to set up our mail configuration , first setup your mail configuration on your .env file as per your mail credentials as i am using mailtrap for sending emails , Here is how you can setup your mail configurations shown below .

.env :

MAIL_MAILER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.mailtrap.io
MAIL_PORT=2525
MAIL_USERNAME=34d7af640c9818
MAIL_PASSWORD=d07708a6993e38
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls
MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS=studywithkishan@gmail.com
MAIL_FROM_NAME="${APP_NAME}"

Step 2 - Setup Routes :

Now set up your routes as per your requirement .

Route::get('/sendmarkdownmail','CheckController@sendMarkdownMail')->name('send-markdown-mail');

Step 3 - Generate Markdown Mail :

Use the following command to create your markdown mail .

php artisan make:mail WelcomeMail --markdown=Email.welcomeMail

It will create WelcomeMail.php file inside your app/Mail directory and another file named welcomeMail.blade.php inside app/resources/views/Email directory .

Step 4 - Calling Mail from Controller :

Now simply call the Mail from your controller function as shown below .

For sending mail to single Mail user .

 public function sendMarkdownMail()
    {
        $email = 'youremail@gmail.com'; 

        $data['name'] = 'your name';
        $data['subject'] = 'Signup Mail';
        $data['from'] = 'studywithkishan@gmail.com';

        Mail::to($email)->send(new WelcomeMail($data));

    }

For sending mail to multiple Mail users .

public function sendMarkdownMail()
    {
        $emails = ['mail1@gmail.com','mail2@gmail.com','mail3@gmail.com']; 

        $data['name'] = 'your name';
        $data['subject'] = 'Signup Mail';
        $data['from'] = 'studywithkishan@gmail.com';

        Mail::to($emails)->send(new WelcomeMail($data));

    }

Note :

Do not forget to use Mail class and the mail file you are calling in the controller .

use Mail;
use App\Mail\WelcomeMail;

WelcomeMail.php :

<?php

namespace App\Mail;

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

class WelcomeMail extends Mailable
{
    use Queueable, SerializesModels;
    protected $data;
    /**
     * Create a new message instance.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function __construct($data)
    {
        $this->data = $data;
    }

    /**
     * Build the message.
     *
     * @return $this
     */
    public function build()
    {
        return $this->markdown('Email.welcomeMail')->from($this->data['from'])->subject($this->data['subject']);
    }
}

welcomeMail.blade.php :

@component('mail::message')
# Thank you for Registering

Thank you for reading this article and for being a part of our family

@component('mail::button', ['url' => ''])
Demo Button
@endcomponent

Thanks,<br>
{{ config('app.name') }}
@endcomponent

That's it , now just simple hit your route and check your Mail , you would have got the mail . This article is only giving you the basics of using Laravel Markdown Mail . You can visit Laravel's official site to make more customize your Email .