Sending e-mails

Laravel's Mail class extends the popular Swift Mailer package, which makes sending e-mails a breeze. The e-mail templates are loaded in the same way as views, which means you can use the Blade syntax and inject data into your templates:

• To inject some data into a template located inside resources/views/email/view.blade.php, we use the following function:

  Mail::send('email.view', $data, function($message) {});

• To send both an HTML and a plain text version, we use the following function:

  Mail::send(array('html.view', 'text.view'), $data, $callback);

• To delay the e-mail by 5 minutes (this requires a queue), we use the following function:

  Mail::later(5, 'email.view', $data, function($message) {});

Inside the $callback closure that receives the message object, we can call the following methods to alter the message that is to be sent:

• $message->subject('Welcome to the Jungle');
• $message->from('[e-mail]', &apos...