Email

This function allows you to send emails using SMTP and beautifully designed email templates.

To get started you need to ensure that you have setup the email variables on your .env file. Also you have a logo on your /uploads/app/ folder that will also the set on the .env file as APP_LOGO variable.

Check out more on env here;

Parameters

Parameter	Required	Type	Description
$to	Yes	string	Email of the recipient.
$subject	Yes	string	Subject of the email
$view_data	Yes	array	Array of data to print on the template. The structure of each template is explained below.
$view_name	No	string	The name of the template file in the /views/email/html folder without extension. e.g basic | withbutton | invoice
$from	No	string	Where the email is from e.g Simcy Creative <[e-mail]>
$attachements	No	array	array with full paths files to attach.

Usage

use Simcify\Mail;

Mail::send(
    "[e-mail]",
    "Thank you for your purchase!"
    array(
        "message" => "Your order has been received and is being processed",
    ),
    "basic"
);

All $view_data values are required depending on the template.

Basic template

screenshot

Sample array

array(
    "message" => "Hello there, how are you?"
)

All array values are required.

Variable	Type	Description
message	string	The message to send on email.

Template with button

screenshot

Sample array

array(
    "title" => "Password reset",
    "subtitle" => "Click the button below to reset password",
    "buttonText" => "Reset Password",
    "buttonLink" => "https://example.com/reset"
    "message" => "Someone hopefully you asked for...."
)

All array values are required.

Variable	Type	Description
title	string	The title of the email
subtitle	string	The email subtitle
buttonText	string	The label of the button
buttonLink	string	The link of the button
message	string	The message to send on email.

Invoice Template

screenshot

Sample array

array(
    "title" => "Thank you for your purchase!",
    "subtitle" => "Your order has been received and is being processed",
    "summary" => array(
                    "currency" => "$",
                    "subtotal" => "243.6",
                    "tax" => "3.6",
                    "total" => "246.6",
                ),
    "items" => array(
                array(
                    "name" => "Socks",
                    "quantity" => "2",
                    "price" => "34.5",
                ),
                array(
                    "name" => "Green Bag",
                    "quantity" => "1",
                    "price" => "25.7",
                ),
                array(
                    "name" => "Sweat Pants",
                    "quantity" => "5",
                    "price" => "19.6",
                )
            )
)

All array values are required.

Variable	Type	Description
title	string	The title of the email
subtitle	string	The email subtitle
summary	array	This is an array containing: currency, subtotal, total & tax
items	array	This is an array of items with array of item details. Each array will have name, quantity & price