Laravel mail blade passing a variable - laravel

Question

I need to pass some variables to my sending email.
Here is my code:
$data = [
'first' => $request->first,
'last' => $request->last,
'business_org' => $request->business_org,
'instagram' => $request->instagram,
'email' => $request->email,
'phone' => $request->phone,
'unique' => $request->unique,
'purchased' => $request->products_purchased,
'city' => $request->city,
'state' => $request->state,
'filename' => $fileName
];
// send email with details
Mail::send('emails.justshoot', $data, function($message) {
$message->from('us#something.com', 'Just Shoot Upload');
$message->to('myemail#gmail.com')->cc('myemail#gmail.com');
});
I then attempt to access the variable so I can display it in my email.
emails.justshoot.blade.php
{{$data}} gives an error. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

You are totally fine with what you are doing, but the second param is the data to pass to the view, and as with the with([]) method to call the view, the array passed will generate an object for each entry, and so with what you are doing you are generating $first, $last, $business_org and the $data is just the name of the array, so it isn't been passed as element to the view: if you want this, you should pass [$data] to the mail send :
$data = [
'first' => $request->first,
'last' => $request->last,
'business_org' => $request->business_org,
'instagram' => $request->instagram,
'email' => $request->email,
'phone' => $request->phone,
'unique' => $request->unique,
'purchased' => $request->products_purchased,
'city' => $request->city,
'state' => $request->state,
'filename' => $fileName
];
// send email with details
Mail::send('emails.justshoot', [$data], function($message) {
$message->from('us#something.com', 'Just Shoot Upload');
$message->to('myemail#gmail.com')->cc('myemail#gmail.com');
});
and then in the view you can do {{$data}}
TIPS: You should create a mail with php artisan and then you are able to do whatever you want, in a more elegant way