PHPMailer on Laravel 5 . phpmailer is one of the most library that used to send email for free. now I wanna use it in laravel 5 framework

How to use it?

1. edit composer.json

2. add package to require-dev

   "phpmailer/phpmailer":"dev-master"

3. enter command

   composer install

4. then craete controller and feel it with method that contain the following code

    $mail = new \PHPMailer(true);
    try{
    	$mail->isSMTP();
    	$mail->CharSet = 'utf-8';
    	$mail->SMTPAuth =true;
    	$mail->SMTPSecure = env('MAIL_ENCRYPTION');
    	$mail->Host = env('MAIL_HOST'); //gmail has host > smtp.gmail.com
    	$mail->Port = env('MAIL_PORT'); //gmail has port > 587 . without double quotes
    	$mail->Username = env('MAIL_USERNAME'); //your username. actually your email
    	$mail->Password = env('MAIL_PASSWORD'); // your password. your mail password
    	$mail->setFrom(env('MY_EMAIL'), env('MY_NAME')); 
    	$mail->Subject = $request->subject;
    	$mail->MsgHTML($request->text);
    	$mail->addAddress($request->email , $request->name); 
    	$mail->send();
    }catch(phpmailerException $e){
    	dd($e);
    }catch(Exception $e){
    	dd($e);
    }
    if($mail){
    	return View("result")->with("result","success")->with("title","Success");
    }else{
    	return View("result")->with("result","failed")->with("title","Failed");
    }
   

5. modify your .env file into like this

    MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
    MAIL_HOST=mailtrap.io
    MAIL_PORT=2525
    MAIL_USERNAME=null
    MAIL_PASSWORD=null
    MAIL_ENCRYPTION=null
   
    MY_EMAIL="[email protected]"
    MY_NAME="Bill Tanthowi Jauhari"
   

note : I was add some constant variable that called MY_EMAIL and MY_NAME feel free to change it to be yours, and dont forget to fill MAIL CONFIG at above configuration to make your email works!

see example code in this repository. clone it look for > SendMail.php as Controller

I've got clean testing and successful with my mail. if you are getting error, feel free to contact me or lay issues. i will response it as soon as possible.

• Update : 13-11-2018
• Homepage Example : PHPMAILERDEMO