Laravel 9 Send Mail using Sendgrid Tutorial

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May 13, 2022

Hi Guys,

In this tutorial, I will learn you how to send mail using sendgrid in laravel 9. you can easily and simply send mail sendgrid in laravel 9.

Sendgrid is a very popular API to send email from our laravel application. It is very fast to send mail and also you can track sent mail. Tracking email is a very important feature of Sendgrid api and you can also see how many users open your mail, and click on your mail too.

First we will add configration on mail. i added my gmail account configration. so first open .env file and bellow code:

Step 1: Download Laravel

Let us begin the tutorial by installing a new laravel application. if you have already created the project, then skip the following step.

composer create-project laravel/laravel example-app

Step 2: .env file

Check your .env file and configure these variables:

MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.gmail.com
MAIL_PORT=587
[email protected]
MAIL_PASSWORD=123456
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls

Step 3: Add Mail

Next, you need to create a Mailable class, Laravel's CLI tool called Artisan makes that a simple feat. Open CLI, go to the project directory, and type:

php artisan make:mail sendGrid --markdown=emails.sendGrid

This command will create a new file under app/Mail/SendGrid.php and it should look something like this:

app/Mail/SendGrid.php

<?php
namespace App\Mail;
use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
use Illuminate\Mail\Mailable;
use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels;
class SendGrid extends Mailable
{
    use Queueable, SerializesModels;
    public $input;
    /**
     * Create a new message instance.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function __construct($input)
    {
        $this->input = $input;
    }
    /**
     * Build the message.
     *
     * @return $this
     */
    public function build()
    {
        return $this->markdown('emails.sendGrid')
                    ->with([
                        'message' => $this->input['message'],
                    ])
                    ->from('[email protected]', 'Vector Global')
                    ->subject($this->input['subject']);
    }
}

Step 4: Add Route

Here, we need to add a simple route for postcontroller. so open your "routes/web.php" file and add the following route.

routes/web.php

<?php
use App\Http\Controllers\PostController;
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| 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('mail/send-grid', [PostController::class, 'sendMail']);

Step 5: Add Controller

In this step, now we should create new controller as PostController. So run bellow command and create new controller.

php artisan make:controller PostController

So, let's copy bellow code and put on PostController.php file.

app/Http/Controllers/PostController.php

<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Routing\Controller;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Validator;
use App\Mail\SendGrid;
class PostController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * Write code on Method
     *
     * @return response()
     */
    public function sendMail(Requset $request)
    {
        $input = ['message' => 'This is a test!'];
        Mail::to('[email protected]')->send(new SendGrid($input));
    }
}

Step 6: Add Blade Files

In the last step. In this step, we have to create just a blade file. so we need to create only one blade file as a sendGrid.blade.php file.

resources/views/sendGrid.blade.php

@component('mail::message')
# Introduction
{{ $message }}
@component('mail::button', ['url' => ''])
Button Text
@endcomponent
Thanks,
{{ config('app.name') }}
@endcomponent

Run Laravel App:

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

php artisan serve

Now, you have to open web browser, type the given URL and view the app output:

http://localhost:8000/mail/send-grid

It will help you...