You can send notifications via email like this in Laravel...
<?php
public function toMail($notifiable)
{
$url = url('/invoice/' . $this->invoice->id);
return (new MailMessage)
->greeting('Hello!')
->line('One of your invoices has been paid!')
->action('View Invoice', $url)
->line('Thank you for using our application!');
}
However, is it a good approach (in software design) to use this feature to send verification emails upon user registration?
yes, it is a fast way to send notification, we register a greeting, a line of text, a call to action, and then another line of text. These methods provided by the MailMessage object make it simple and fast to format small transactional emails. The mail channel will then translate the message components into a nice, responsive HTML email template with a plain-text counterpart.
you can also formatting the notification in better way for example:
Error Messages
Customizing The Recipient
Customizing The Subject
Customizing The Templates
reference Laravel Reference
Laravel Notifications is an all new feature coming to Laravel 5.3 that allows you to make quick notification updates through services like Slack, SMS, Email, and more.
This is great. Notifications are so simple and robust, you may no longer find yourself needing to use any other notification tool (mail, Slack SDK directly, etc.)—especially when you see how many custom notification channels the community has created. It's bonkers.
As always, with great power comes great responsibility; make sure you're being careful with your users' time and attention and you don't go overboard with the notifications.
So, go forth. Notify.
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As you know many e-mail providers have the feature to use e-mail templates. Through their API you can send e-mails, just by setting the template id and passing through the variables. The predefined template will be send to the user.
For my project I want to use Mailjet API for transactional e-mails. What is the best way to call their email API in my project. Because laravel already has lots of email and notification features so I am looking for the best practice to integrate this in my project.
For example I want so make use of notifications. This notification has to call the mailjet email api and pass through the template id and the needed variables. What is the best way to archive this. With a custom notification channel maybe?
Or are there other good alternatives?
You are right, you can use an alternative mailing service while using Laravel's neat notifications feature. You will need to create a custom notification channel where you can define sending logic by hitting Mailjet's API endpoints. When the notification channel is all set up, you can specify it inside a notification itself where you can define the exact request body.
To make things easier, you may use Mailjet's official PHP wrapper so you don't have to work with raw HTTP requests.
Personally I used the same technique for Twilio SMS and Nexmo (Vonage) SMS Verification codes. I will add some of my code so you can see how I organised things:
class PhoneChannel
{
public function send($notifiable, Notification $notification)
{
if ($notification->resend) {
$this->repeatCall();
} else {
$this->initCall();
}
}
...
class VerifyPhone extends Notification
{
use Queueable;
public bool $resend;
public function __construct(bool $resend)
{
$this->resend = $resend;
}
public function via($notifiable): array
{
return [PhoneChannel::class];
}
}
The point is that you can define a request body inside the notification itself in order to access it later in the notification channel. Just add a method called toMailjet inside a notification, specify your variables, and then access it inside a channel via $notification->toMailjet()
I'm new in laravel. I have to use email feature in my project. In Laravel Docs, I got Mail and Notification options for sending email feature. Now I want to know which one should be used and why?
Please Note: I will use ShouldQueue as well.
If you want to send the information via just one channel, say email only, then use Mailable. If you are likely to send the information as email or SMS, some other medium or multiple(eg. email and SMS), your best bet is to use Notification.
You should use Mailable, if each email you send out has different layout. Mailable is a very flexible way to send emails. And it's more customizable than Notification.
Notification is useful if you have to send a predefined layout in differents channel.
You can customize notifications layout, but it's not advisable as it's out of scope to have more than one layout of notification.
According to this laracasts video
"a general rule of thumb, what's nice about Notifications is you are notifying the user in response to some action that took place on the website, so they made a payment, they close their account they liked something these are all responses to an action."
I use the Mail facade for marketing, for example: to inform the new features in our website, inform some special day is coming soon, etc.
Is it possible to create/send notification(s) to all users when there is new announcement.
I want all users to be notified using the database notification.
Since most of the tutorials I have seen are all email notification, is this possible? Please attach links or any idea on how I could implement this.
Literally in the documentation:
Alternatively, you may send notifications via the Notification facade.
This is useful primarily when you need to send a notification to
multiple notifiable entities such as a collection of users. To send
notifications using the facade, pass all of the notifiable entities
and the notification instance to the send method:
Notification::send($users, new InvoicePaid($invoice));
So yes, you can send to all user by getting them from the database and sending a notification using the facade.
For example:
Notification::send(User::all(), new InvoicePaid($invoice));
I made a laravel app which uses an index method that delivers a collection of the client's available appointments (think hairdresser) to the page (as an api), which I then display using vue/vuetify.
The client is saying they would like the appointments on the page to be dynamic/live eg if someone books an appointment, then all other logged in users will see that appointment disappear from the list on their screen.
I have no idea how I would do this, although I have had one idea - I somehow incorporate node/non-blocking on the server, like a chat room, but only for this part of the app.
Or is there a way to do this with laravel/nginx?
Thanks in advance - I don't know what to search for!
I believe you are looking for Broadcasting (Documentation Link). You would need to:
Configure your broadcasting driver (you could give pusher a try for quick setup and tinkering)
Configure your Laravel backend to dispatch a new event whenever a new appointment is made, (e.g. event(new AppointmentCreated($appointment)) where AppointmentCreated implements the ShouldBroadcast interface. You can combine this with Model Events
Update your frontend to receive your broadcast (Check Laravel Echo). Once you receive a broadcast, update the UI to mark this appointment as unavailable i.e, make it disappear
I am a little confused about whether to use Laravel's Notification or Mailable class. From what I understand, Mailables are used to send only emails whereas Notifications can be used to send emails and sms. In my application, I dont have plans to send sms notifications for now, so I am confused if I should just use the Mailable class in this case. My questions are:
If I am only going to be sending emails notifications, is it
better for me to use Mailables instead of Notifications?
If each emails have different html layout, then would Mailable be
the better option?
Even if all emails are Notification emails in nature, does it still make
sense to send them using Mailables instead of Notifications?
Can someone tell me the main difference between these 2 and how should we decide on which method to choose when sending emails in Laravel 5.3.
Although it is not in the documentation, as of Laravel 5.3.7, the Notifications mail channel can work with Mailable objects in addition to the notification MailMessage objects.
Therefore, you can create all your emails as Mailable objects, and if you decide to send them via Notifications, you would just have your toMail() method return the Mailable objects you've already made.
Yes, definitively, if each email layout is different, you should use Mailable
Mailable is the new way to send emails, easier than before. More customizable than Notifications.
Notification is very nice if you want to send a predefined layout in differents channel ( Mail, SMS, Slack, etc )
You can customize notifications layout, but having 1 layout by notification is going to get more difficult... it is just not the use case for notifications