Laravel 10/9 Send Email with Attachment Example

To send email with attachment Laravel 10/9; Through this tutorial, i am going to show you how to send email with attachment (pdf, word, txt etc file) in Laravel 10/9 apps.

Laravel 10/9 Send Email with Attachment Example

Follow the below given steps to send email with attachment in Laravel 10/9 apps:

Step 1 – Install Laravel 10/9 App
Step 2 – Configuration SMTP in .env
Step 3 – Install PDF Library
Step 4 – Add Email Send Route
Step 5 – Create Directory And Blade View
Step 6 – Create Email Controller
Step 7 – Run Development Server

Step 1 – Install Laravel 10/9 App

Run following command on command prompt to install or download Laravel 10/9 application:

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

Step 2 – Configuration SMTP in .env

In this step, you need to configure smtp details in .env file like following:

MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.gmail.com 
MAIL_PORT=587 
MAIL_USERNAME=Add your user name here
MAIL_PASSWORD=Add your password here
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls

Note that:- If you are sending a mail using Gmail you have to allow non-secure apps to access Gmail you can do this by going to your Gmail settings here.

Once less secure apps are enabled; now you can use your Gmail for sending the emails.

Step 3 – Install PDF Library

Run the following command on terminal to install PDF package to generate PDF:

composer require niklasravnsborg/laravel-pdf

To start using Laravel, add the Service Provider and the Facade to your config/app.php:

'providers' => [
	// ...
	niklasravnsborg\LaravelPdf\PdfServiceProvider::class
]
'aliases' => [
	// ...
	'PDF' => niklasravnsborg\LaravelPdf\Facades\Pdf::class
]

Run the following command on terminal to publish package’s config file to your config directory by using following command:

php artisan vendor:publish

Step 4 – Add Send Email Route

Visit to routes directory and open web.php file. And then add the following routes for send email:

use App\Http\Controllers\SendEmailController;

Route::get('send-email-pdf', [SendEmailController::class, 'index']);

Step 5 – Create Directory And Blade View

To create directory name test inside resources/views directory. Then create an test.blade.php blade view file inside resources/views/ directory. And update the following code into it:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
 <title>Laravel 10/9 Send Email with Pdf Example</title>
</head>
<body>
 <h1>This is test mail from Laratutorials.com</h1>
 <p>Laravel 10/9 send email with Pdf example</p>
</body>
</html>

Step 6 – Create Send Email Controller

In this step, use the following command to create controller name SendEmailController:

php artisan make:controller SendEmailController

Then navigate to app/Http/Controllers directory and open SendEmailController.php. Then update the following code into it:

<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Mail;
use PDF;
class SendEmailController extends Controller
{
	
    public function sendmail(Request $request){
        $data["email"]=$request->get("email");
        $data["client_name"]=$request->get("client_name");
        $data["subject"]=$request->get("subject");
        $pdf = PDF::loadView('test', $data);
        try{
            Mail::send('mails.mail', $data, function($message)use($data,$pdf) {
            $message->to($data["email"], $data["client_name"])
            ->subject($data["subject"])
            ->attachData($pdf->output(), "invoice.pdf");
            });
        }catch(JWTException $exception){
            $this->serverstatuscode = "0";
            $this->serverstatusdes = $exception->getMessage();
        }
        if (Mail::failures()) {
             $this->statusdesc  =   "Error sending mail";
             $this->statuscode  =   "0";
        }else{
           $this->statusdesc  =   "Message sent Succesfully";
           $this->statuscode  =   "1";
        }
        return response()->json(compact('this'));
 }
}

Step 7 – Run Development Server

Run PHP artisan serve command on command prompt to start your server locally:

php artisan serve

Then open browser and fire the following URL on it:

http://127.0.0.1:8000/send-email-pdf

Conclusion

Laravel 10/9 send an email with attachment example, you have learned how to create a mailable class and send pdf with email in Laravel 10/9.

Laravel 10/9 Send Email with Attachment Example