Notifications

STEP 1) Configure MailTrap

• Create an account in https://mailtrap.io/

• In the Home click in the Setup Inbox Button

• Select the Laravel 7+ Integration

• Copy the connection values

• in the env file, replace the email connection information with the mailtrap connection values

STEP 2) Create a new Event

• Run the following command to create a new Notification

php artisan make:notification SendRegistrationEmail 

• Add a protected property to receive the $user as parameter in the constructor

public $user;
public function __construct($user)
{
    $this->user = $user;
}

• Replace the toMail() function with the following code

public function toMail($notifiable)
{
    return (new MailMessage)
         ->line('Dear '. $this->user->name . '. This is a notification to let you know that you were registered to our site.')
         ->action('You were succesfully registered' ., url('/'))
         ->line('Thank you for using our application!');
    }

• Add database in the via() function return array

  return ['mail', 'database'];

STEP 3) Send Notification on the User creation

• In the UserController.php add the following line in the store() function

$user->notify(new SendRegistrationEmail($user));

STEP 4) Create the Notification table Migration

• Run the following command to create a database migration to create the notifications table

php artisan notification:table

• Run the following command to run the migration and seed the database

php artisan migrate:refresh --seed