How to format the content received in an email in Laravel 5.4?

Question

I am working on a website in which I want to format content of an email received.

At this moment it is coming up in one line like this with only value showing up.

Mike abc@gmail.com 9870000000 New York Hello World

The controller which I have used for the email in Laravel is:

Class PostingMessageController extends Controller
{
    public function create() 
    {
        return view('posting');
    }

   public function store(Request $request)
   {

/*
    dd($request->all());

  */   
      $this->validate($request, [
      'name' => 'required',
      'email' => 'required|email',
      'number' => 'required',
      'city' => 'required',
      'post' => 'required'
      ]);

       Mail::send('emails.posting-message', [
        'msg'=> $request->name . "\r\n"
        . $request->email . "\r\n"
        . $request->number . "\r\n"
        . $request->city . "\r\n"
        . $request->post . "\r\n"


       ], function($mail) use($request) {

          $mail->from($request->email, $request->name);

           $mail->to('abc@hellworld.com')->subject('Contact Message');
       });

       return redirect()->back()->with('flash_message', 'thank you, your posting info has been sent to our team. we will reach out as soon as we can to provide next steps!');

   } 
}

Problem Statement:

I am wondering what changes I need to make in the controller so that everything shows up in different lines like below with field names at the left and values at the right. At this moment, I am seeing only values as mentioned above.

Name        Mike

Email       abc@gmail.com

Number      9870000000

City        New York

Post        Hello World

Vipertecpro · Answer 1 · 2018-08-27T20:27:11.727

If you wanted to modify you're output of your email, you're probably looking for something you can get into blade and design it and then send it, here is how i do it

In My Routes : routes/Web.php

Route::get('contact-us', 'Main@showContactUs')->name('route_name');
Route::post('contact-us', 'Main@doContactUs')->name('route_name');

In My Controller : app/Http/Controllers/Main.php

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Mail;
use App\Mail\SendMailable;

class Main extends Controller
{
    public function showContactUs()
    {
        $data = [];
        return View::make('pages.contactUs',$data);
    }
    public function doContactUs(Request $r)
    {
     $fullname = $r->get('fullName');
     $phone    = $r->get('phone');
     $email    = $r->get('email');
     $description = $r->get('message');
     Mail::to('RECEIVER_EMAIL_ADDRESS')->send(new SendMailable($fullname, $phone, $email, $description));
      if (Mail::failures())
      {
        $message1 = " Something Went Wrong.";
      }
      else
      {
        $message2 = " Message Sent Successfully.";
      }
    return redirect()->route('route_name'])->with([
            'warning' => $message1,
            'success' => $message2
        ]);
    }
}

then Create this: app\Mail\SendMailable.php

<?php
namespace App\Mail;

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

class SendMailable extends Mailable
{
    use Queueable, SerializesModels;
    public $fullname,$phone,$email,$description;
    /**
     * Create a new message instance.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function __construct($fullname, $phone, $email,$description)
    {
        $this->fullname = $fullname;
        $this->phone = $phone;
        $this->email = $email;
        $this->description = $description;
    }
    /**
     * Build the message. THIS WILL FORMAT YOUR OUTPUT
     *
     * @return $this
     */
    public function build()
    {
        return $this->view('email.layoutOne')->subject('Contact Us Subject');
    }
}

Finally in Blade : resources/email/layoutOne.blade.php you can do it like this

<div>
    <p>Fullname  : {{ $fullname }}</p>
    <p>Phone No. : {{ $phone }}</p>
    <p>Email Address : {{ $email }}</p>
    <p>Description : {{ $description }}</p>
    <hr>
    <p>Thank you for your Query. We'll get back to you within 24 Hours. </p>
</div>

Hope this helps.

@ViperTechPro The controller code seems to return `Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 'public' (T_PUBLIC), expecting end of file` not sure what mistake i am doing. Can you have a look ? — john, Aug 27 '18 at 16:40
Sure @john i updated my above controller section, i forget to mention class name, also may i take a look of your controller ? — Vipertecpro, Aug 27 '18 at 17:22
My controller is posted in the question above but I will be using yours now. — john, Aug 27 '18 at 17:24
Do we need to create configure the routes as well for the controller ? — john, Aug 27 '18 at 17:30
I am working on it. I will let you know if I have any question. — john, Aug 27 '18 at 17:31
Yes, email.layoutOne is blade view , path will be resouces/views/email/layoutOne.blade.php — Vipertecpro, Aug 27 '18 at 17:41
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](https://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/178880/discussion-between-vipertecpro-and-john). — Vipertecpro, Aug 27 '18 at 17:44

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 26 '18 at 03:38

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Mail::send('emails.posting-message', [
    'msg'=> "Name\t" . $request->name . "\r\n"
    . "Email\t" . $request->email . "\r\n"
    . "Number\t" . $request->number . "\r\n"
    . "City\t" . $request->city . "\r\n"
    . "Post\t" . $request->post . "\r\n"


   ]

answered Aug 26 '18 at 03:38

Chris Cousins

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All r still coming in straight line. – john Aug 26 '18 at 03:45
`Field and value pairs` should be in separate lines. – john Aug 26 '18 at 03:47
Are you around ? – john Aug 26 '18 at 04:17
What is in your template "emails.posting-message" ? – Chris Cousins Aug 26 '18 at 04:21
Just one line, `{{ $msg }}` – john Aug 26 '18 at 04:23
not sure what to say then, \t and \r\n are valid for strings in plain text emails. – Chris Cousins Aug 26 '18 at 04:24

Erubiel · Answer 3 · 2018-08-27T15:53:15.450

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Why not pass the data as an array and format at the view?

$data = array(
    'name'=> $request->name,
    'email'=> $request->email,
    'number'=> $request->number,
    'city'=> $request->city,
    'post'=> $request->post
);

Mail::send('emails.posting-message', $data, function($mail) use($request) {
    $mail->from($request->email, $request->name);
    $mail->to('letsruckify@ruckify.com', 'Name')->subject('Contact Message');
});

You can access the variables as $name or $email and implement some table in your blade view like the one in the answer by @ViperTecPro

This is an example of how you can do it... the specific html is up to you.

<div>
    <p>Name  : {{ $name }}</p>
    <p>Email Address :    {{ $email }}</p>
</div>

edited Aug 27 '18 at 15:53

answered Aug 26 '18 at 04:51

Erubiel

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I used this code. I am wondering what I should be using inside `email.posting-message`. Because at this moment inside email.posting-message I am using `{{ $msg }}` this. – john Aug 27 '18 at 15:52
just use a table exactly like @ViperTecPro answered... edit: it wasn't a table, but still, thats how you would access – Erubiel Aug 27 '18 at 15:52
I think, you didn't get me. emails.posting-message is not a view. – john Aug 27 '18 at 15:58
Check my controller in the question. `public function create() { return view('posting'); }` – john Aug 27 '18 at 15:59
Here is `posting` is the view. – john Aug 27 '18 at 15:59
so, whats `emails.posting-message` – Erubiel Aug 27 '18 at 16:01
https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/mail ... add `->view()`so you can format in a view... i don't know if this way of doing things was dropped, this was right on laravel 5.2 https://laravel.com/docs/5.2/mail and maybe on laravel 5.3... – Erubiel Aug 27 '18 at 16:10
Where do you want me to add view ? – john Aug 27 '18 at 16:13
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](https://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/178877/discussion-between-john-and-erubiel). – john Aug 27 '18 at 16:36
when I am copying @ViperTecPro code from the controller, it is telling me `Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 'public' (T_PUBLIC), expecting end of file` – john Aug 27 '18 at 16:37

How to format the content received in an email in Laravel 5.4?

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