Check user settings before sending an email notification in Laravel - laravel

Question

I have a receiveEmail boolean field in the User model of a Laravel application. How do I ensure that mail notifications respect this field, and only sends the email to the user if the field is true?
What I want is that this code:
$event = new SomeEvent($somedata);
Auth::user()->notify($event);
where SomeEvent is a class that extends Notification and implements 'mail' on the via() method, only sends an email if the user has allowed emails.

Answer 1

Have any one checked this via() method:
https://laravel.com/docs/6.x/notifications#specifying-delivery-channels
public function via($notifiable)
{
// $notifiable object is User instance for most cases
$wantsEmail = $notifiable->settings['wants_email']; // your own logic
if(!$wantsEmail){
// no email only database log
return ['database'];
}
return ['database', 'mail'];
}
I hope this will work while sending notifications to multiple users too. Thanks

Answer 2

I ended up creating a new Channel that implements the checking. In app/channels, add your channel, something like this:
namespace App\Channels;
use App\User;
use Illuminate\Notifications\Channels\MailChannel;
use Illuminate\Notifications\Notification;
use Illuminate\Support\Arr;
class UserCheckMailChannel extends MailChannel
{
/**
* Send the given notification.
*
* #param mixed $notifiable
* #param \Illuminate\Notifications\Notification $notification
* #return void
*/
public function send($notifiable, Notification $notification)
{
// check if user should receive emails. Do whatever check you need here.
if ($notifiable instanceof User && !$notifiable->receiveEmails) {
return;
}
// yes, convert to mail and send it
$message = $notification->toMail($notifiable);
if (!$message) {
return;
}
parent::send($notifiable, $notification);
}
}
Then bind your class on Providers/AppServiceProvider.php to the old mail class:
/**
* Register any application services.
*
* #return void
*/
public function register()
$this->app->bind(
\Illuminate\Notifications\Channels\MailChannel::class,
UserCheckMailChannel::class
);
}

Answer 3

try to create new method in user model like this..
user model file..
public function scopeNotifyMail() {
if($this->receiveEmail == true) { //if field is enable email other wise not send..
$event = new SomeEvent($somedata);
$this->notify($event);
}
}
and now call like this in controller..
Auth::user()->notifyMail();
or
App\User::find(1)->notifyMail();
or
App\User::where('id',1)->first()->notifyMail();