Send notification to email - php

Question

I work on a website project with the laravel framework and I want when I click on the button send a notification either send to the user's email
$invite = Invite::create([
'name' => $request->get('name'),
'email' => $request->get('email'),
'token' => str_random(60),
]);
$invite->notify(new UserInvite());
tnx to help me

Answer 1

What you are using is mail notification, Here is the answer but you can refer to notification section of laravel docs for more information:
https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/notifications
first generate the notification using your terminal in project folder:
php artisan make:notification UserInvite
Then in generated file specify your driver to be 'Mail'. byr default it is. Also laravel has a nice sample code there. And it is better you inject your $invite to the notification so you can use it there. here is a quick sample code. You can find the notification generated under App\Notifications.
<?php
namespace App\Notifications;
use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
use Illuminate\Notifications\Notification;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
use Illuminate\Notifications\Messages\MailMessage;
use App\Invite;
class UserInvite extends Notification implements ShouldQueue
{
use Queueable;
/**
* Create a new notification instance.
*
* #return void
*/
public function __construct()
{
//
}
public function via($notifiable)
{
return ['mail']; // Here you specify your driver, your case is Mail
}
public function toMail($notifiable)
{
return (new MailMessage)
->greeting('Your greeting comes here')
->line('The introduction to the notification.') //here is your lines in email
->action('Notification Action', url('/')) // here is your button
->line("You can use {$notifiable->token}"); // another line and you can add many lines
}
}
now you can call your notification:
$invite->notify(new UserInvite());
since you are notifying on invite, your notifiable is the same invite. As a result in your notification you can use $notification->token to retrieve the token of invite object.
Please let me know if I can be of any help.
regards.