Beautymail for Laravel 5
Beautymail makes it super easy to send beatiful responsive HTML emails. It's made for things like:, (*1)
- Welcome emails
- Password reminders
- Invoices
- Data exports
If you're on Laravel 4, use the 1.x branch., (*2)
Templates
There are tons of great looking HTML email templates out there. Campaign Monitor and Mailchimp has released hundreds for free. It is pretty simple to adapt a template to Beautymail. If you do, please send a PR., (*3)
Widgets by Campaign Monitor:, (*4)
, (*5)
Minty by Stamplia:, (*6)
, (*7)
Sunny, (*8)
, (*9)
Installation
Add the package to your composer.json by running:, (*10)
composer require snowfire/beautymail dev-master
When it's installed, add it to the providers list in config/app.php, (*11)
Snowfire\Beautymail\BeautymailServiceProvider::class,
Publish assets to your public folder, (*12)
php artisan vendor:publish
Send your first Beauty mail
Add this to your routes.php, (*13)
Route::get('/test', function()
{
$beautymail = app()->make(Snowfire\Beautymail\Beautymail::class);
$beautymail->send('emails.welcome', [], function($message)
{
$message
->from('bar@example.com')
->to('foo@example.com', 'John Smith')
->subject('Welcome!');
});
});
Now create resources/views/emails/welcome.blade.php, (*14)
@extends('beautymail::templates.widgets')
@section('content')
@include('beautymail::templates.widgets.articleStart')
<h4 class="secondary"><strong>Hello World</strong></h4>
<p>This is a test</p>
@include('beautymail::templates.widgets.articleEnd')
@include('beautymail::templates.widgets.newfeatureStart')
<h4 class="secondary"><strong>Hello World again</strong></h4>
<p>This is another test</p>
@include('beautymail::templates.widgets.newfeatureEnd')
@stop
That's it!, (*15)
Options
To change colours for the different segments, pass a colour variable:, (*16)
@include('beautymail::templates.widgets.articleStart', ['color' => '#0000FF'])
Minty template example
@extends('beautymail::templates.minty')
@section('content')
@include('beautymail::templates.minty.contentStart')
<tr>
<td class="title">
Welcome Steve
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="100%" height="10"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="paragraph">
This is a paragraph text
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="100%" height="25"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="title">
This is a heading
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="100%" height="10"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="paragraph">
More paragraph text.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="100%" height="25"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
@include('beautymail::templates.minty.button', ['text' => 'Sign in', 'link' => '#'])
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="100%" height="25"></td>
</tr>
@include('beautymail::templates.minty.contentEnd')
@stop
Ark template example
@extends('beautymail::templates.ark')
@section('content')
@include('beautymail::templates.ark.heading', [
'heading' => 'Hello World!',
'level' => 'h1'
])
@include('beautymail::templates.ark.contentStart')
<h4 class="secondary"><strong>Hello World</strong></h4>
<p>This is a test</p>
@include('beautymail::templates.ark.contentEnd')
@include('beautymail::templates.ark.heading', [
'heading' => 'Another headline',
'level' => 'h2'
])
@include('beautymail::templates.ark.contentStart')
<h4 class="secondary"><strong>Hello World again</strong></h4>
<p>This is another test</p>
@include('beautymail::templates.ark.contentEnd')
@stop
Sunny template example
@extends('beautymail::templates.sunny')
@section('content')
@include ('beautymail::templates.sunny.heading' , [
'heading' => 'Hello!',
'level' => 'h1',
])
@include('beautymail::templates.sunny.contentStart')
<p>Today will be a great day!</p>
@include('beautymail::templates.sunny.contentEnd')
@include('beautymail::templates.sunny.button', [
'title' => 'Click me',
'link' => 'http://google.com'
])
@stop
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