send custom emails to cutomers with laravel - php

Question

I have customer data in my database with their emails. In my case, i want to get user email from customer table and send a custom email to customer. I'm new to laravel and this is the very first time i'm working with laravel notification. Help me to do this!
I have created this SendMailController:
public function sendNotifications(Request $request, $id)
{
$id = $request->id;
$customer_id = DB::table('jobs')->select('customers_id')->where('id', '=', $id)->get();
$customer_email = DB::table('customer')->select('email')->where('id', '=', $customer_id)->get();
$customer_firstname = DB::table('customer')->select('firstname')->where('id', '=', $customer_id)->get();
sendEmail($customer_firstname, $customer_email);
return view('admin.sendNotifications');
}
I have created a sendEmail Notification class:
class sendEmail extends Notification
{
use Queueable;
public function __construct($customer_firstname, $customer_email)
{
$this->customer_email = $customer_email;
$this->customer_firstname = $customer_firstname;
}
public function via($notifiable)
{
return ['mail'];
}
public function toMail($notifiable)
{
return (new MailMessage)
->error()
->subject('Thank you!')
->from('hashankannangara#gmail.com', 'Sender')
->to($this->customer_email)
->line($this->customer_firstname.''.'Thanks for got services from us!');
}
public function toArray($notifiable)
{
return [
//
];
}
}
How can i pass the customer email to to() function? I want to display customer first name in email with Thanking them. How can i use a custom template and add to this email? I appreciate if you can help me.

Answer 1

https://laravel.com/docs/6.x/notifications#mail-notifications
You can use something like this in toMail method:
return (new CustomMail($this->customer))->to($this->customer->email);
and when you call notify you must pass a customer

Answer 2

use Mail;
$data = 'set data variable pass in view'
$email= 'receiver' email'
Mail::send('here set your file for view (ex. email.access(blade))', $data, function ($message) use ($email) {
$message->from('sender mail','Title')->subject('Register');
$message->to($email);
});