Hello artisans, today I’ll show you how you can send email easily using Markdown. Laravel Markdown provides components, tables, email links, buttons, embed images etc. So, let’s see how we can use this beautiful feature in our app.

Note: Tested on Laravel 8.65.

Table of Contents

1. Create and Setup Controller
2. Create Route
3. Create and Configure Mail Class
4. Setup View

Create and Setup Controller

We will start by creating our controller. So, fire this below command in your terminal

 php artisan make:controller EmailController

This will create a file under App\Http\Controllers. Open up the file and put the below code into EmailController

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use App\Mail\SendEmail;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Mail;

class EmailController extends Controller
{
    public function sendEmail(Request $request)
    {
        $name = [
            'name' => 'John',
        ];

        try {
            Mail::to('[email protected]')->send(new SendEmail($name));
            return back()->with('msg','Email Send Successfully');
        } catch (\Exception $e) {
            echo 'Error - '.$e;
        }
    }
}

Create Route

Put the below route in your web.php file.

Route::get('sendemail', [\App\Http\Controllers\EmailController::class,'sendEmail'])->name('sendemail');

Create and Configure Mail Class

For creating Mail class fire the below command in your terminal

php artisan make:mail SendEmail --markdown=emails.sendmail

After hitting the command we can see that under App\Mail SendMail class has been generated. Now, open this class and paste the below code.

<?php

namespace App\Mail;

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

class SendEmail extends Mailable
{
    use Queueable, SerializesModels;

    private $content;

    public function __construct($content)
    {
        $this->content = $content;
    }
    public function build()
    {
        return $this->markdown('emails.sendmail')
        ->with('content',$this->content);
    }
}

Setup View

Now open the sendmail.blade.php and paste the following code into your blade file

@component('mail::message')
    # Dear, {{$content['name']}}

    You are receiving this email because we received a signup request for your this mail account.

    @component('mail::button', ['url' => url('/') ])
    Click Here
    @endcomponent

    If you did not request a signup , no further action is required.

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

And that’s it, you’re done. Finally, check your .env file for Mail Configuration (if everything ok or not).

That’s all for toady. Thanks for reading.