How to call Mailable function from Controller?

Question

I am new to laravel and worked through the laravel mailable doc which ended me with a mailable that looks like this:

ContactMail.php:

<?php

namespace App\Mail;

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


class ContactMail extends Mailable implements ShouldQueue
{
  use Queueable, SerializesModels;

  public function __construct()
  {
    //
  }

  public function build()
  {

    return $this->markdown('emails.contact');
  }

  public function store(Request $request)
  {

    $contactVar = 'hello world!';

    Mail::to($request->user())->send(new contact($contactVar));

  }
}

I want the store function of this mailable to be called from my ContactController.php:

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

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


class ContactController extends Controller
{
  public function submit(Request $request) {
    $this->validate($request, [
      'name' => 'required',
      'email' => 'required | email',
      'message' => 'required'
    ]);
    
    // store(...)
    
    return response()->json(null, 200);
  }
}

How would I call the function and is this good practice? Sorry if it's obvious, I'm trying to get the hang of Laravel/PHP.

This is the corresponding email template file (contact.blade.php):

@component('mail::message')
# Introduction

The body of your message.

@component('mail::button', ['url' => ''])
Button Text
@endcomponent

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

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40653747/how-to-send-data-from-laravel-controller-to-mailable-class — Abdul Wadud Somrat, Oct 04 '21 at 06:48
Does this answer your question? [How to send Data from Laravel Controller to Mailable Class](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40653747/how-to-send-data-from-laravel-controller-to-mailable-class) — Nico Haase, Oct 04 '21 at 07:41

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 04 '21 at 06:52

1

If you want to use view, your mailable should return view in the store method. You can read about it here.

So your mailable should look more like this:

class ContactMail extends Mailable implements ShouldQueue
{
  // the rest of the code

  public function store(Request $request)
  {
    return $this->view('contact');
  }
}

And then you can send mail to user in your Controller like this:

Mail::to($request->user())->send(new ContactMail());

What you can read here.

Also, if you want to use variables in your view, you can use with method, and there you can pass associative array with named variables:

public function store(Request $request)
{
  return $this->view('contact')
              ->with(['contactVariable' => 'hello world!']);
}

And to use this variable you just type $contactVariable in your view template.

answered Oct 04 '21 at 06:52

Adrian Kokot

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Hey, this seems to work but now I am getting a `local.ERROR: cURL error 60: SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate`. Any idea how to solve this? I don't have `xamp/wamp` installed but am just using `artisan server`. – Artur Müller Romanov Oct 04 '21 at 07:33
Look [here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29822686/curl-error-60-ssl-certificate-unable-to-get-local-issuer-certificate) – Adrian Kokot Oct 04 '21 at 07:38
I know, but is this solution not for `xamp/wamp` users? I am just using `artisan server`. Or is `xamp` integrated by default? – Artur Müller Romanov Oct 04 '21 at 07:39
So the `cURL` error is gone but the `ContactMail` function inside `ContactController.php` does not seem to call `store` function. – Artur Müller Romanov Oct 04 '21 at 08:17
**Does not seem to call store function**, what does it mean? What is your current result, what you want to do, what you have tried? Please read through the [help center](https://stackoverflow.com/help), in particular [How do I ask a good question?](https://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask) and update your question with a [minimal reproducible example](https://stackoverflow.com/help/minimal-reproducible-example) demonstrating the problem. – Adrian Kokot Oct 04 '21 at 17:49

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 04 '21 at 06:48

My opinion is to create a job and dispatch the mail load to this job. The job structure is shown below:

<?php

namespace App\Jobs;

use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Bus\Dispatchable;
use Illuminate\Queue\InteractsWithQueue;
use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels;

class SendMail implements ShouldQueue
{
    use Dispatchable, InteractsWithQueue, Queueable, SerializesModels;

   
    protected $email;
    public function __construct($email)
    {
        $this->email = $email;
    }

    
    public function handle()
    {
        Mail::to($this->email)->send(new ContactMail());
    }
}

And dispatch the job from your controllers submit method like this.

class ContactController extends Controller
{
  public function submit(Request $request) {
    $this->validate($request, [
      'name' => 'required',
      'email' => 'required | email',
      'message' => 'required'
    ]);
    SendMail::dispatch($request->email)->onQueue('send_mail');
    // store(...)
    return response()->json(null, 200);
  }

}

Remove the store method from the ContactMail.php file

How to call Mailable function from Controller?

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