How to Control Events from firing in Laravel - php

Question

I have an Event that fires off a Welcome email whenever someone registers a new account on my website.
My problem is, I needed to create a "Create User" page on my admin section. Now every time I create a user from the admin section the email still fires off an email welcoming the new user.
This would be fine, but I need that email to say something else.
I don't want the Welcome email to fire when creating a user from the admin panel.
How can I control this Event from sending the email?
Code pretty much goes in this order:
1. Event code: NewUser.php
namespace App\Events;
... irrelevant classes
use Illuminate\Foundation\Events\Dispatchable;
use App\User;
class NewUser
{
use Dispatchable, InteractsWithSockets, SerializesModels;
public $user;
public function __construct(User $user)
{
$this->user = $user;
}
}
2. Listener: SendWelcomeEmail.php
namespace App\Listeners;
use App\Events\NewUser;
use Illuminate\Queue\InteractsWithQueue;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
use Mail;
use App\Mail\NewUserWelcome;
class SendWelcomeEmail
{
public function __construct()
{
//
}
public function handle(NewUser $event)
{
Mail::to($event->user->email)->send(new NewUserWelcome($event->user));
}
}
3. Mail: NewUserWelcome.php
namespace App\Mail;
use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
use Illuminate\Mail\Mailable;
use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
use App\User;
class NewUserWelcome extends Mailable
{
use Queueable, SerializesModels;
public $user;
public function __construct(User $user)
{
$this->user = $user;
}
public function build()
{
return $this->subject('Welcome To The Website')->markdown('emails.user.newuserwelcome');
}
}
4. Markdown email would be next.
#component('mail::message')
# Greetings bla bla bla
5. EventServiceProvider: is making the call like this:
protected $listen = [
'App\Events\NewUser' => [
'App\Listeners\SendWelcomeEmail',
],
];
6. User model I have the following relevant code:
class User extends Authenticatable {
use Notifiable;
protected $dispatchesEvents = [
'created' => Events\NewUser::class
];
In my ADMIN SAVE USER FUNCTION | UserController This is what I'm using to SAVE the New User From Admin Panel: (No Event classes)
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\User;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Hash;
class UserController extends Controller
{
public function adminUserStore(Request $request){
$newsupporter = User::create([
'name'=> $request->name,
'email' => $request->email,
'password' => Hash::make($quickpass),
]);
return back()->with('success','The user has been created and a password reset email has been sent to them.');
}
Any help would be appreciated, I've been battling this one for quite some time.

Answer 1

You can try by adding a new nullable column for your user model, which would check if the user was added by admin or someone else;
$newsupporter = User::create([
'name'=> $request->name,
'email' => $request->email,
'password' => Hash::make($quickpass),
'added_by' => 'admin',
]);
And then create a check and send email only when the user was not added my admin,
public function handle(NewUser $event)
{
if(!$event->user->added_by == 'admin'){
Mail::to($event->user->email)->send(new NewUserWelcome($event->user));
}
}

Answer 2

Personally I would introduce two events instead of the one. Something along the lines of AccountCreatedByUser and AccountCreatedByAdmin. These events can then be handled by separate listeners, which will send separate e-mails. This will mean you'll have to fire these events manually instead of depending on the built-in created event. This can be done like so:
event(new AccountCreatedByUser($user));
Documentation for firing events manually can be found here