Send transactional email with Sendgrid in Laravel

• 20 Mar 2020
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Here I will show you how to send email by Sendgrid templates. In sendgrid transactional templates you can create template layout and design with the use of page builder, no need add custom css and alo no need create blade email template view. You need to create an account on sendgrid if you want to use sendgrid in your application or webiste. You can send 100 emails a day in free plan.

First you need install pacakage sendgrid/sendgrid using composer:

composer require sendgrid/sendgrid

After that need to create Sendgrid API key which is to be generated in your Sendgrid account. Add below variables in your .env file.

MAIL_DRIVER=sendgrid
MAIL_HOST=smtp.sendgrid.net
MAIL_PORT=587
MAIL_USERNAME=sendgrid_username
MAIL_PASSWORD=sendgrid_password
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls
SENDGRID_API_KEY=sendgrid_api_key

In you controller include sendgrin Mail() function using new \SendGrid\Mail\Mail();

public function sendEmail(){
    $email = new \SendGrid\Mail\Mail();
    $email->setFrom("userfrom@mail.com", "My Website");
    $email->setSubject("I'm replacing the subject tag");

    //You can send variables values on sendgrid templates using addTO
    //I've sent 2 variables in array with keys username, useremail
    // In send grid template i used {{username}} and {{useremail}} to get dynamic values
    $email->addTo(
        'admin@mail.com',
        "Example User1",
        [
            "username" => ucwords($user->name),
            "useremail" => ucwords($user->email)
        ]
    );

    // if you want to send bcc
    $email->addBcc(
        'admin2@mail.com',
        "Example User1",
        [
            "username" => ucwords($user->name),
            "useremail" => ucwords($user->email)
        ]
    );

    $email->setTemplateId("YOUT TEMPLATE ID");
    $sendgrid = new \SendGrid('YOUR KEY HERE');
    try {
        $response = $sendgrid->send($email);
        dd('Mail Sent');
        //print $response->body() . "\n";
    } catch (Exception $e) {
        echo 'Caught exception: ' .  $e->getMessage() . "\n";
    }
}

composer require sendgrid/sendgrid

MAIL_DRIVER=sendgrid
MAIL_HOST=smtp.sendgrid.net
MAIL_PORT=587
MAIL_USERNAME=sendgrid_username
MAIL_PASSWORD=sendgrid_password
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls
SENDGRID_API_KEY=sendgrid_api_key

public function sendEmail(){
    $email = new \SendGrid\Mail\Mail();
    $email->setFrom("userfrom@mail.com", "My Website");
    $email->setSubject("I'm replacing the subject tag");

    //You can send variables values on sendgrid templates using addTO
    //I've sent 2 variables in array with keys username, useremail
    // In send grid template i used {{username}} and {{useremail}} to get dynamic values
    $email->addTo(
        'admin@mail.com',
        "Example User1",
        [
            "username" => ucwords($user->name),
            "useremail" => ucwords($user->email)
        ]
    );

    // if you want to send bcc
    $email->addBcc(
        'admin2@mail.com',
        "Example User1",
        [
            "username" => ucwords($user->name),
            "useremail" => ucwords($user->email)
        ]
    );

    $email->setTemplateId("YOUT TEMPLATE ID");
    $sendgrid = new \SendGrid('YOUR KEY HERE');
    try {
        $response = $sendgrid->send($email);
        dd('Mail Sent');
        //print $response->body() . "\n";
    } catch (Exception $e) {
        echo 'Caught exception: ' .  $e->getMessage() . "\n";
    }
}