Laravel sending email - php

Question

I am trying to send an email from my application that uses the Laravel framework. I have installed Sximo as a theme for working with Laravel and the application is running on Amazon AWS. All seems to be good with the setup as it is working as intended.
I have a API setup on *C:\xampp\htdocs\public\api\savequestionnaire.php * that receives data from a mobile application and saves the data to a MySQL table. This also is working as intended.
The idea is that if the API receives some data, an email is generated to a predefined email address. With that, I have a file for receiving the data, writing it to a database and then generating the email as below.
For the Mail section I am following the example on the Laravel website from HERE
savequestionnaire.php
<?php
$json = file_get_contents('php://input');
$questionnairevalues = json_decode($json, true);
$position = $questionnairevalues['position'];
$question_one = $questionnairevalues['question_one'];
$question_two = $questionnairevalues['question_two'];
$question_three = $questionnairevalues['question_three'];
$question_four = $questionnairevalues['question_four'];
$question_five = $questionnairevalues['question_five'];
$query = "INSERT INTO tb_q (position, question_one, question_two, question_three, question_four, question_five) "
. "VALUES('$position', '$question_one', '$question_two', '$question_three', '$question_four', '$question_five')";
$result = $mysqli->query($query) or die($mysqli->error.__LINE__);
if ($result) {
echo 'Success';
// Getting error here
Mail::send('emails.contact.blade', $position, function ($message) {
$message->from('myEmail#test.com', 'Laravel');
$message->to('myOtherEmail#test.com');
});
echo '\r\nMail sent success';
}
else {
echo 'Error';
}
mysqli_close($mysqli);
When I run the above code I get the error: "Success
Fatal error: Class 'Mail' not found in C:\xampp\htdocs\public\api\savequestionnaire.php on line 56"
I have also tried adding
use Mail;
to the top of the file but then I get the error: "Warning: The use statement with non-compound name 'Mail' has no effect in C:\xampp\htdocs\public\api\savequestionnaire.php on line 2"
How do I go about implementing the Mail feature correctly using Laravel?
I have also tried using PHP's built in
mail('myEmail#test.com', 'My Subject', 'My message');
function. This generates no errors - but no emails are sent or received.

Answer 1

add this at top of controller:
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Mail;
In your case directly use :
\Illuminate\Support\Facades\Mail::send('emails.contact.blade', $position, function ($message) {
instead of Mail::send('emails.contact.blade', $position, function ($message) {

Answer 2

In Your Config / app.php Check whether there is
Illuminate\Mail\MailServiceProvider::class,
under providers. And Check Under Aliases you have
'Mail' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Mail::class,
Edit :
According to the Error, it is looking the facade inside the questionnaire.php you are now in. So try putting this code inside of a controller.
To create a controller, in the terminal type,
php artisan make:controller controllerName

Answer 3

If this page is standalone, you have to use composer to be able to use Mail:
add
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
at the top of your page (replace the path for matching the location of your vendor/autoload.php file