How to Send Mail using PHPMailer in Laravel?

  • 19-10-2023
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  • Laravel 10
  • Haresh Chauhan

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Welcome to our comprehensive tutorial on sending emails using PHPMailer in the Laravel framework. In this video, we'll walk you through the entire process, step by step, so you can easily integrate email functionality into your Laravel applications.

Send an email using PHPMailer in this post we will see a practical YouTube video example. Sending mail in laravel little bit different from laravel providing default simple mail sending service. In this post content, we will send emails with the help of PHPMailer. So if you have a question in your mind How to Send Mail using PHPMailer in Laravel? This Laravel PHPMailer Step-by-Step Tutorial will help you.

PHPMailer is a popular open-source PHP library that enables developers to send email messages from a PHP application. It provides a convenient way to send emails with attachments, HTML content, and various other features. PHPMailer simplifies the process of sending email through SMTP, as well as using other mail transfer protocols like Sendmail and Mail.

Here are the steps need to be followed for integration into your laravel app :

  • Step 1. Create Laravel App
  • Step 2. Composer Install PHPMailer
  • Step 3. Mail Configuration
  • Step 4. Create A Controller
  • Step 5. Define Routes
  • Step 6. Blade File
  • Step 7. Start Development Server & Test

Step 1. Create Laravel App

We will create a new fresh laravel app, using the below command. This command will install a new fresh closed laravel application clone.

composer create-project laravel/laravel example-app

Step 2. Composer Install PHPMailer

Install PHPMailer composer, Use the below given command. This command will install the PHPMailer library in your application. This will help you send emails using access directly PHPMailer class.

composer require phpmailer/phpmailer

Step 3. Mail Configuration

Open your .env file. If the file is not available just copy the ".env.example" content and paste in the ".env" file. Here you have to mail configuration.

MAIL_MAILER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.gmail.com
MAIL_PORT=465
MAIL_USERNAME=<YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS>
MAIL_PASSWORD=<YOUR EMAIL PASSWORD>
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls
MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS="hello@example.com"
MAIL_FROM_NAME="${APP_NAME}"

Step 4. Create A Controller

We will create a "SendMailController", Use the below given command in your app terminal. This command will create a controller. For this control, we will make use of sent mail using PHPMailer.

php artisan make:controller SendMailController
app/Http/Controllers/SendMailController.php
<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;
    
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception;
    
class SendMailController extends Controller
{   
    /**
     * Write code on Method
     *
     * @return response()
     */
    public function index(Request $request)
    {
        return view('sendemail');
    }
    
    /**
     * Write code on Method
     *
     * @return response()
     */
    public function store(Request $request)
    {
        $mail = new PHPMailer(true);
    
        try {
    
            /* Email SMTP Settings */
            $mail->SMTPDebug = 0;
            $mail->isSMTP();
            $mail->Host = env('MAIL_HOST');
            $mail->SMTPAuth = true;
            $mail->Username = env('MAIL_USERNAME');
            $mail->Password = env('MAIL_PASSWORD');
            $mail->SMTPSecure = env('MAIL_ENCRYPTION');
            $mail->Port = env('MAIL_PORT');
    
            $mail->setFrom(env('MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS'), env('MAIL_FROM_NAME'));
            $mail->addAddress($request->email);
    
            $mail->isHTML(true);
    
            $mail->Subject = $request->subject;
            $mail->Body    = $request->body;
    
            if( !$mail->send() ) {

                return back()->with("error", "Email not sent.")->withErrors($mail->ErrorInfo);
            }
                
            else {
                return back()->with("success", "Email has been sent.");
            }
    
        } catch (Exception $e) {
                return back()->with('error','Message could not be sent.');
        }
    }
}

Step 5. Define Routes

Create Routes for the send mail. Just copy the below route and paste it into your web.php file. Make sure that you call the controller at the top of the web route file.

routes/web.php
<?php

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;
    
use App\Http\Controllers\SendMailController;
    
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Web Routes
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here is where you can register web routes for your application. These
| routes are loaded by the RouteServiceProvider within a group which
| contains the "web" middleware group. Now create something great!
|
*/
    
Route::get('send-php-mailer',[SendMailController::class, 'index'])->name('send.php.mailer');
Route::post('send-php-mailer-submit',[SendMailController::class, 'store'])->name('send.php.mailer.submit');

Step 6. Blade File

Here is the demo mail sent html blade file code sample. Copy this HTML code and paste your created "sendemail.blade.php" file.

resources/views/sendemail.blade.php
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="{{ str_replace('_', '-', app()->getLocale()) }}">
<head>
    <meta name="csrf-token" content="{{ csrf_token() }}">
    <title>Email Send Using PHPMailer - webappfix.com</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@5.0.0-beta1/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css">
</head>
<body>
        
<div class="container mt-5" style="max-width: 750px">
    
    <h1>Email Send Using PHPMailer - webappfix.com</h1>
    
    @if ($message = Session::get('success'))
        <div class="alert alert-success  alert-dismissible">
            <strong>{{ $message }}</strong>
        </div>
    @endif
    
    @if ($message = Session::get('error'))
        <div class="alert alert-danger  alert-dismissible">
            <strong>{{ $message }}</strong>
        </div>
    @endif
    
    <form method="post" action="{{ route('send.php.mailer.submit') }}" enctype="multipart/form-data">
        @csrf
        <div class="form-group">
            <label>Recipient Email:</label>
            <input type="email" name="email" class="form-control" />
        </div>
        <div class="form-group">
            <label>Email Subject:</label>
            <input type="text" name="subject" class="form-control" />
        </div>
        <div class="form-group">
            <label>Email Body:</label>
            <textarea class="form-control" name="body"></textarea>
        </div>
        <div class="form-group mt-3 mb-3">
            <button type="submit" class="btn btn-success btn-block">Send Email</button>
        </div>
    </form>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Step 7. Start Development Server

Start development server. Use the below-given command in your app terminal. This command will start the local development server.

php artisan serve

Copy the below-given URL below in your browser. You will see an email send form. Fill in all the details and click on this send button.

http://localhost:8000/send-email

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