Setting up e-mail notices

In this recipe, we are going to use the previous work to trigger an event that will send e-mails. E-mails are a slow process sometimes, so I will put them in a queue. In this case, it will be a database queue since it is just local communication. Once we are done, we will see how to send a "nice" looking e-mail.

Getting ready

A base Laravel install will do. I will be working from the previous work, but you can follow along.

How to do it…

1. First, let's make our queue database tables:

   > php artisan queue:table && php artisan migrate
   

2. Then, let's set this to sync in our .env file. Make sure that the QUEUE_DRIVER variable in your .env file looks like the example here:

   

   Queue driver setting in .env

3. In the .enf file, we will set MAIL to log until we are ready:

   

4. Then, we will make the job:

   > php artisan make:job SendFavoritesEmail
   

5. Let's just add a placeholder there for now, it is app/Jobs/SendFavoritesE-mail.php:

   

6. Now, our handler will react to the queue, which I will...