cristiancy96/mandrill

Mandrill transactional emails via Laravel 4

Laravel Mandrill Request

Send Mandrill transactional emails from the Laravel 4 framework. This package is a updating of package doxxon and Laravel 4 wrapper around MichMich's Laravel Mandrill Bundle., _(*1)

Installation

1. Edit your project's composer.json file and add a requirement for doxxon/laravel-mandrill-request., _(*2)

   "require": {
       "laravel/framework": "4.1.*",
       "doxxon/laravel-mandrill-request": "dev-master"
   }

2. Update composer from the command line:, _(*3)

   composer update

3. Open app/config/app.php and add the following line to the providers array:, _(*4)

   'Doxxon\LaravelMandrillRequest\LaravelMandrillRequestServiceProvider',

4. Add a facade alias to enable shorthand usage. Open app/config/app.php and add the following line to the aliases array:, _(*5)

   'Mandrill' => 'Doxxon\LaravelMandrillRequest\Facades\MandrillRequest',

5. Publish the config files. This will allow you to set your Mandrill API key:, _(*6)

   php artisan config:publish doxxon/laravel-mandrill-request

6. Set your Mandrill API key by editing config/packages/doxxon/laravel-mandrill-request/config.php:, _(*7)

return array(

    'api_key' => 'your api key here',

);

Get your API keys from the Mandrill Dashboard, _(*8)

Usage

$payload = array(
    'message' => array(
        'subject' => 'Transactional email via Mandrill',
        'html' => 'It works!',
        'from_email' => 'fromemail@example.com',
        'to' => array(array('email'=>'toemail@example.com'))
    )
);

$response = Mandrill::request('messages/send', $payload);

See the Mandril API Docs for more information, _(*9)