Laravel send email to address from database - laravel

Question

In my index view I show all the users and there is a button that will change the user status to active and not active. The code looks like this:
#foreach($users as $user)
<tr>
<td>{{$user->name}}</td>
<td>{{$user->surname}}</td>
<td>{{$user->email}}</td>
<td>
#if($user->is_active == 0)
{!! Form::model($user, ['method' => 'PUT', 'action'=>['AdminUserController#activateuser', $user->id]]) !!}
{!! Form::submit('Activate', ['class'=>'btn btn-primary']) !!}
{!! Form::close() !!}
#else
{!! Form::model($user, ['method' => 'PUT', 'action'=>['AdminUserController#activateuser', $user->id]]) !!}
{!! Form::submit('De-Activate', ['class'=>'btn btn-danger']) !!}
{!! Form::close() !!}
#endif
</td>
<td>{{$user->cell}}</td>
<td><button class="btn btn-primary">View Property</button></td>
<td><button class="btn btn-danger">Delete</button></td>
</tr>
#endforeach
So when I click on activate/deactivate button I trigger my activateuser function of the controller. After activation, an email is sent.
The controller looks like this:
public function activateuser(Request $request, $id){
$user = User::findOrFail($id);
if($user->is_active == 0){
$user->update([$user->is_active = 1]);
Mail::send(new activateUser());
}
else{
$user->update([$user->is_active = 0]);
}
return redirect()->back();
}
At the moment the email is going to myself and my Mailabçe looks like this:
public function build()
{
return $this->view('emails.activateuser')->to('wosleybago#gmail.com');
}
What I want instead is to send the email to the email address from the user email in the database table.
How can I do that?
So, someho I should get the $user->email

Answer 1

I usually want my emails have all the information in itself, so I pass User instance or whatever instance that holds data required to compose the mail.
So the Mailable has __construct(..) like this:
/**
* #var \App\User
*/
public $user; // since this is a public property its going to be available in view of mailable as $user
__construct(App\User $user) {
$this->user = $user;
// further more I set the to(), this is what you are after
$this->to($user->email, $user->name);
// and subject
$this->subject('You are activated!');
}
...
And now all you need to do in the controller is the following:
Mail::send(new activateUser($user));
As mentioned above, $user is available in the mail-view so you can use it there as well:
Hi, {{ $user->name }},
...
Note: change the activateUser to ActivateUser to follow PSR-2
Class names MUST be declared in StudlyCaps.
I also use queued mails so I set the $timeout and $tries properties right on the Mailable class.

Answer 2

Sending email is described in Doc: https://laravel.com/docs/5.6/mail#sending-mail
Put this code inside activateUser() function
Mail::to($user)->send(new YourMailableName());
Do not forget to import Mail and YourMailableName using "use" keyword.
Or you can use user email instead object
Mail::to($user->email)->send(new YourMailableName());
And remove ->to('wosleybago#gmail.com') from your Mailable/

Answer 3

You should pass User Email in when creating new activateUser instance, like so
Mail::send(new activateUser($user->email));
And then use this attribute later.

Answer 4

Sending Email to particular a person is quite simple. My suggestion would be as follows:
Use Queue to send mail later as it will take some time to respond from controller to view.
In existing code you can get the email of the current user and send it using a helper to() that comes with mail functionality of laravel.
You can code it like this.
if($user->is_active == 0){
$user->update([$user->is_active = 1]);
Mail::to($user->email)->send(new MailableClassInstance);
}