How to send Transactional Emails using Pepipost in Laravel?

Hello Mark,

#Laravel supports sending email over SMTP. To have laravel relay email through Pepipost, follow the below steps:

#Step 1 – Register Pepipost Account

Go to https://pepipost.com
Click Try Pepipost Now
Fill all the necessary details
Wait for a email from Pepipost conforming that your account is provisioned.

Cool,you are ready to go!

#Step 2 – Change mail configurations in .env and mail.php files

Open .env located at root of the application, edit the file as below

MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.pepipost.com	
MAIL_PORT=587
MAIL_USERNAME=pepipostUsername
MAIL_PASSWORD=pepipostPassword

Now open mail.php located in /config/mail.php.

Edit the file as below:

<?php
return [ 
        
        'driver' => 'smtp',
        
        'host' => 'smtp.pepipost.com',
        
        'port' => 587,
        
            'encryption' => 'tls', 
        
        'username' => 'pepipostUsername',
        
        'password' => 'pepipostPassword',
        
        'sendmail' => '/usr/sbin/sendmail -bs' 
];

#Step 3 – Send emails the way you want

Lets's create some textarea, and the text entered will be sent as a mail when an valid email is entered, check the form below,

<form class="w3-container" action="sendemail" method="POST"
            role="email">
            {{ csrf_field() }}
            <p>
                <label>Enter Some Text</label>
                <textarea class="w3-input" type="text" name="message"></textarea>
            </p>
            <p>
                <label>Email</label> <input class="w3-input" type="email"> <input
                    type="submit" name="toEmail" class="w3-btn w3-orange" value="Send">
            </p>
        </form>

and create another form just with email field.

<form class="w3-container" action="sendemail" method="POST"
            role="email">
            {{ csrf_field() }}
            <p>
                <label>Email</label> <input class="w3-input" name="toEmail" 
                                    type="email">
            </p>
            <p>
                <input type="submit" class="w3-btn w3-orange" value="Send">
            </p>
        </form>

When the send button is clicked route it to the following function.

Route::any ( 'sendemail', function () {
    if (Request::get ( 'message' ) != null)
        $data = array (
                'bodyMessage' => Request::get ( 'message' ) 
        );
    else
        $data [] = '';
    Mail::send ( 'email', $data, function ($message) {
        
        $message->from ( '[email protected]', 'Just Laravel' );
        
        $message->to ( Request::get ( 'toEmail' ) )->subject ( 'Just Laravel demo email using Pepipost' );
    } );
    return Redirect::back ()->withErrors ( [ 
            'Your email has been sent successfully' 
    ] );
} );

and the view for the emails which we are going to be send be like.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en-US">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
</head>
<body>
    <h2>Demo mail from JustLaravel</h2>
 
    @if(isset($bodyMessage))
    <div class="w3-container w3-orange">
 
        <p>
            <b>The data you have entered is :</b><span
                style="color: #e36c39; background: #EEE";> {{ $bodyMessage }}</span>
 
        </p>
 
    </div>
    @endif
</body>
</html>

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