Laravel 5.4 - Send email with attached txt

Step by step to create a text file and send via email to laravel is:

Step 1:

First thing is to set up the FileSystem folder of the storage folder with the command:

  

php artisan storage:link

This will create a folder inside the folder public , which is a way to organize your folders in the laravel and put your files inside it, eg:

itiswithinthisfolderthatthefilescreated.txtwillbesavedfromsomearrayof php .

Step 2:

Now it is to create a text file ( .txt ) with some values of array , example :

$array = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20];

$t = "";
foreach ($array as $i)
{
    $t .= $i . PHP_EOL;
}

and soon after to save in the storage folder the text file do:

\Illuminate\Support\Facades\Storage::disk('public')->put('400.txt', $t);

Note that Facade Storage has a disk with the name of public which is the setting contained in app\config\filesystems.php

'public' => [
        'driver' => 'local',
        'root' => storage_path('app/public'),
        'url' => env('APP_URL').'/storage',
        'visibility' => 'public',
    ],

This setting is responsible for telling the storage location that is the same as the link created from the storage folder, and do not worry this is already configured.

The put method finally creates a text file with the array data that is now contained in the $t variable.

Step 3:

Type in the command line:

  

php artisan make:mail MailTxt

A class and configuration for sending the email is created, as follows:

<?php namespace App\Mail;

use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
use Illuminate\Mail\Mailable;
use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;

class MailTxt extends Mailable
{
    use Queueable, SerializesModels;

    public function __construct()
    {
        //
    }
    public function build()
    {
        return $this->view('email_txt')
                ->from('[email protected]')
                ->attach(public_path('/storage/400.txt'));
    }
}

In the build() method we will configure the following methods:

• view : view name which is the main layout of your email
• from : who is sending the email would be the email address
• attach : the text file that was previously created to be attached

With these 3 steps an email with its text attachment is sent.

Full Code:

$array = [
  1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,
  11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20
];

$t = "";
foreach ($array as $i)
{
    $t .= $i . PHP_EOL;
}

\Illuminate\Support\Facades\Storage::disk('public')->put('400.txt', $t);

\Illuminate\Support\Facades\Mail::to("[email protected]")->send(new \App\Mail\MailTxt());

• File System
• Mail