Framework: Mailer has no option for sending raw mail as html

[athahersirnaik]

In Mailer class there is no option for sending raw (string) mail as html. Suppose, that I want to get the body of the mail from a template stored in database, and it is html. I can't use raw as it will treat, as a text not html.

protected function addContent($message, $view, $plain, $raw, $data)
{
    if (isset($view)) {
        $message->setBody($this->getView($view, $data), 'text/html');
    }

    if (isset($plain)) {
        $message->addPart($this->getView($plain, $data), 'text/plain');
    }

    if (isset($raw)) {
        $message->addPart($raw, 'text/plain');
    }
}

[GrahamCampbell]

What you can do is just implement your own mailer. That's what I've done.

[GrahamCampbell]

That's one of the reasons Laravel has contracts.

[athahersirnaik]

Ok, Thanks

[shahidkarimi]

Sending raw html is a headache in Laravel

[nickwest]

The easiest way to send a raw html email is to use:
Mail::send('customrawtemplate', array('html' => 'your raw html goes here')...)

and create customrawtemplate.blade.php that just has:
{!! $html !!}

[str]

OK, the way I did it was:

        Mail::send([], [], function($message) use ($data) {
            $message->from($data['from']);
            $message->to($data['to']);
            $message->subject($data['subject']);
            $message->setBody($data['content'], 'text/html');
        });

This solved the issue of needing an empty template that was never going to be used.

[abellion]

Being stuck with blade make no sense --'

[jubairsaidi]

I send a number of csv/pdf/other generated file reports at regular intervals to web admins who don't care about anything in the email except for the attachment so I simply use Mail::raw('see attached', function($message) { ... }) for those instances. My only disappointment is you can't do this with a Mailable class.

[bhawani007]

thanks bro... code working fine.

[abellion]

https://github.com/laravel/framework/pull/22809

You can now use the html() method on both Mailer and Mailable.

[boldstar]

@abellion , how do we pass data to the html() method?

for instance when I am building an email using view() I can use the ->with([ 'data', => $data ]) on the end and I will have access to that data in the view..

is there a way to do this using the html() method?

Note: using laravel version 5.6 currently...

[abellion]

@boldstar when using the html() method the given _plain_ content doesn't pass through any template engine. I think you should use a view (i.e. a blade template) if you want to format its content.

[boldstar]

@abellion , yeah I was trying to make templates that could be pulled from the database and be rendered with data. When I run the view() (i.e. blade template) it looks for a view which is obviously not available since it is from the database and throws an alarm, unless maybe there is a way I can create views on the fly before passing it in to the view() method?