Hi artisans. In this article, I’m going to share how Laravel event and listener work with example. Let’s start:

Table of Contents

1. Create Event
2. Create Listener
3. Register Event to Providers
4. Create Controller and Route
5. Create Email Template
6. Test

Create Event

Create an event by this artisan command:

php artisan make:event OrderPlaced

The event path is app/Events/OrderPlaced.php. Open the file and paste this code:

<?php

namespace App\Events;

use Illuminate\Broadcasting\Channel;
use Illuminate\Broadcasting\InteractsWithSockets;
use Illuminate\Broadcasting\PresenceChannel;
use Illuminate\Broadcasting\PrivateChannel;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Broadcasting\ShouldBroadcast;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Events\Dispatchable;
use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels;

class OrderPlaced
{
    use Dispatchable, InteractsWithSockets, SerializesModels;

    public $user_id;

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

    /**
     * Get the channels the event should broadcast on.
     *
     * @return \Illuminate\Broadcasting\Channel|array
     */
    public function broadcastOn()
    {
        return new PrivateChannel('channel-name');
    }
}

Create Listener

We want to send an email notification to customers if OrderPlaced event fires. Create a listener:

php artisan make:listener SendOrderEmailNotification

The listener path is app/Listeners/SendOrderEmailNotification.php. Open the file and write send email code in the handle() function like:

<?php

namespace App\Listeners;

use App\Events\OrderPlaced;
use App\Models\User;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
use Illuminate\Queue\InteractsWithQueue;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Mail;

class SendOrderEmailNotification
{
    /**
     * Create the event listener.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function __construct()
    {
        //
    }

    /**
     * Handle the event.
     *
     * @param  object  $event
     * @return void
     */
    public function handle(OrderPlaced $event)
    {
        $user = User::find($event->user_id)->toArray();

        Mail::send('emails.event_order_placed', ['user' => $user], function($message) use ($user) {
            $message->to($user['email']);
            $message->subject('Thanks for your order');
            $message->from('[email protected]', 'Shouts.dev');
        });
    }
}

Register Event to Providers

Open app/Providers/EventServiceProvider.php file and update the $listen[] with the following code:

<?php

namespace App\Providers;

use App\Events\OrderPlaced;
use App\Listeners\SendOrderEmailNotification;
use Illuminate\Auth\Events\Registered;
use Illuminate\Auth\Listeners\SendEmailVerificationNotification;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Support\Providers\EventServiceProvider as ServiceProvider;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Event;

class EventServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
    /**
     * The event listener mappings for the application.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $listen = [
        Registered::class => [
            SendEmailVerificationNotification::class,
        ],
        OrderPlaced::class => [
            SendOrderEmailNotification::class,
        ],
    ];

    /**
     * Register any events for your application.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function boot()
    {
        //
    }
}

Create Controller and Route

Let’s create a controller:

php artisan make:controller EventController

Open the controller from app/Http/Controllers and pase this code:

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use App\Events\OrderPlaced;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Event;

class EventController extends Controller
{
    public function index()
    {
        $user_id = 1;
        Event::dispatch(new OrderPlaced($user_id));

        dd("Check inbox");
    }
}

Now open routes/web.php and register this route:

use App\Http\Controllers\EventController;

Route::get('/event', [EventController::class, 'index']);

Create Email Template

Go to resources/views folder and create a folder named emails. Under emails folder create a file called event_order_placed.blade.php. Then open file and paste this code:

Hi {{ $user['name'] }},<br><br>

Thanks for your order. Your order will be processed soon.<br><br>

Regards,<br>
shouts.dev

Test

Before going to test, check there is at least 1 user in the database. If there is no user, then create 1 user first. You can create the user using Laravel tinker:

php artisan tinker

User::factory()->count(1)->create()

Or using Laravel eloquent:

use App\Models\User;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Hash;

// add user
$user = new User();
$user->name = "Md Obydullah";
$user->email = "[email protected]";
$user->password = Hash::make('123456');;
$user->save();

Lastly, to send email, you should set your SMTP credentials in .env file.

Now run this project:

php artisan serve

Now visit http://localhost:8000/event route. Then check your inbox:

That’s all, folks. Thanks for reading.