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How to Generate PDF and Send Email Using Laravel 10?

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Hi dev,

You will learn how to send emails and generate PDFs using this example of Laravel 10. Laravel 10's dompdf send email attachment will be taught to you. Laravel 10 send mail with pdf attachment is something you'll learn. I want to discuss with you how to send emails and generate PDFs with Laravel 10.

In this example, I will simply use dompdf to generate a pdf file and send a mail with a pdf attachment. you just need to follow a few steps to create a simple example of sending a mail with created pdf file in Laravel app.

Let's see bellow steps:

Step 1: Install Laravel


I am going to explain step by step from scratch so, we need to get a fresh Laravel application using the bellow command, So open your terminal OR command prompt and run the bellow command:

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel blog

Step 2: Install dompdf Package first of all we will install barryvdh/laravel-dompdf composer package by following the composer command in your laravel application.

composer require barryvdh/laravel-dompdf

Step 3: Make Configuration

In the first step, you have to add send mail configuration with mail driver, mail host, mail port, mail username, and mail password so Laravel will use those sender details on the email. So you can simply add the following.

.env 

MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.gmail.com
MAIL_PORT=587
[email protected]
MAIL_PASSWORD=rrnnucvnqlbsl
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls
[email protected]
MAIL_FROM_NAME="${APP_NAME}"

Step 4: Create Mail Class

We are going from scratch and in first step, we will create email for testing using Laravel Mail facade. So let's simple run bellow command.

php artisan make:mail MailExample

Now you will have new folder "Mail" in app directory with MailExample.php file. So let's simply copy bellow code and past on that file.

app/Mail/MailExample.php 

<?php

  
namespace App\Mail;

  
use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
use Illuminate\Mail\Mailable;
use Illuminate\Mail\Mailables\Content;
use Illuminate\Mail\Mailables\Envelope;
use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels;
use Illuminate\Mail\Mailables\Attachment;

  
class MailExample extends Mailable
{
    use Queueable, SerializesModels;

  
    public $mailData;

  
    /**
     * Create a new message instance.
     */
    public function __construct($mailData)
    {
        $this->mailData = $mailData;
    }

  
    /**
     * Get the message envelope.
     */
    public function envelope(): Envelope
    {
        return new Envelope(
            subject: $this->mailData['title'],
        );
    }

  
    /**
     * Get the message content definition.
     */
    public function content(): Content
    {
        return new Content(
            view: 'emails.myTestMail',
            with: $this->mailData
        );
    }

  
    /**
     * Get the attachments for the message.
     *
     * @return array
     */
    public function attachments(): array
    {
        return [
            Attachment::fromData(fn () => $this->mailData['pdf']->output(), 'Report.pdf')
                ->withMime('application/pdf'),
        ];
    }
}

Step 5: Add Route

In this is step we need to create routes for items listing. so open your "routes/web.php" file and add following route.

routes/web.php 

<?php

  
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;

  
use App\Http\Controllers\PDFController;

  
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Web Routes
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here is where you can register web routes for your application. These
| routes are loaded by the RouteServiceProvider within a group which
| contains the "web" middleware group. Now create something great!
|
*/

  
Route::get('send-email-pdf', [PDFController::class, 'index']);

Step 6: Add Controller

Here,we require to create new controller PDFController that will manage index method of route. So let's put bellow code.

app/Http/Controllers/PDFController.php 

 
      
namespace App\Http\Controllers;

       
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Mail\MailExample;
use PDF;
use Mail;

    
class PDFController extends Controller
{

       
    /**
     * Show the application dashboard.
     *
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
     */
    public function index()
    {
        $data["email"] = "[email protected]";
        $data["title"] = "From Nicesnippets.com";
        $data["body"] = "This is Demo";

    
        $pdf = PDF::loadView('emails.myTestMail', $data);
        $data["pdf"] = $pdf;

  
        Mail::to($data["email"])->send(new MailExample($data));

    
        dd('Mail sent successfully');
    }

       
}

Step 6: Create View File

In Last step, let's create myTestMail.blade.php(resources/views/emails/myTestMail.blade.php) for layout of pdf file and put following code:

resources/views/emails/myTestMail.blade.php 

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Nicesnippets.com</title>
</head>
<body>
    <h1>{{ $title }}</h1>
    <p>{{ $body }}</p>

     
    <p>Thank you</p>
</body>
</html>

Run Laravel App:

All the required steps have been done, now you have to type the given below command and hit enter to run the Laravel app:

php artisan serve

Now, Go to your web browser, type the given URL and view the app output:

http://localhost:8000/send-email-pdf

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