In Laravel 11, create a mailable class and attachment (pdf, txt, jpg, png, CSV) in it and then make a controller to send email with the attached file.
Here are steps to send email with attachments using SMTP and mailable class:
Step 1 – Setup New Laravel 11 Project
To set the new Laravel 11 application on the server you can use the given command:
composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel SendMailPdf
Step 2 – Configure Mail Server
Open the .env file in the root directory of your Laravel application, and configure mail server details in it; Something like this:
MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.gmail.com
MAIL_PORT=587
MAIL_USERNAME=Add your user name here
MAIL_PASSWORD=Add your password here
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls
To allow non-secure apps to access Gmail to send emails, you can go to your Gmail settings here and click Enable less secure apps.
Step 3 – Create PDF Mail Class
Run the following command to create a mail class:
php artisan make:mail PDFMail
Edit PDFMail.php file from app/mail folder and Attach the PDF file to this mail class:
namespace App\Mail;
use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
use Illuminate\Mail\Mailable;
use Illuminate\Mail\Mailables\Attachment;
use Illuminate\Mail\Mailables\Content;
use Illuminate\Mail\Mailables\Envelope;
use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels;
class PDFMail extends Mailable
{
use Queueable, SerializesModels;
/**
* Create a new message instance.
*/
public function __construct(private string $title, private string $body)
{
}
/**
* Get the message envelope.
*/
public function envelope(): Envelope
{
return new Envelope(
subject: 'Welcome on tutsmake.com',
);
}
/**
* Get the message content definition.
*/
public function content(): Content
{
return new Content(
view: 'emails.pdfMail',
with: [
'title' => $this->title,
'body' => $this->body,
],
);
}
/**
* Get the attachments for the message.
*
* @return array<int, \Illuminate\Mail\Mailables\Attachment>
*/
public function attachments(): array
{
return [
Attachment::fromPath('/path/to/attachment.pdf')->filename('attachment.pdf'),
];
}
}
Step 4 – Define Route
Define a route in the web.php file to handle the request to send mail; Something like this:
use App\Http\Controllers\SendPdfController;
Route::get('send-email-pdf', [SendPdfController::class, 'sendEmailPDF']);
Step 5 – Create a Controller File
Run the following command to make a controller file to handle the email sending process:
php artisan make:controller SendPdfController
Open a SendPdfController.php controller file from app/http/controller folder and update the following code into it:
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use App\Mail\PDFMail;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Mail;
class SendPdfController extends Controller
{
public function sendEmailPDF()
{
$title = 'PDF Mail from Tutsmake.com';
$body = 'Here is attachement file from tutsmake.com';
Mail::to('[email protected]')->send(new PDFMail($title, $body));
return "Email with pdf has been sent successfully!";
}
}
Step 6 – Create an Email View
Create a pdfMail.blade.php file inside the resources/views/emails folder and add the following HTML code into it:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>{{ $title }}</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>{{ $body }}</p>
</body>
</html>
Step 7 – Test Application
Run artisan serve command to start the application server for testing:
php artisan serve
Open browser with URL http://127.0.0.1:8000/send-email-pdf to send mail with pdf from laravel 11 application.
Conclusion
That’s it! When you call the sendEmailPDF() method, it will send email the generated PDF file attached.
