Matt Stauffer has a new post outlining four things he didn’t know Laravel could do, but learned about them while writing his new book, Laravel: up and running.
The four items he outlines is:
- The Cookie Façade is one special cookie
- Attaching files to emails is easier than you think
- You can chain more Scheduler methods than the docs show
- You can assert that a view gets passed certain data
While I was reading through this I started thinking about the email attachments and how ->attach expects a real file. It seems like you should be able to pass it raw data and still attach files easily.
Just as you might imagine Laravel does support this through ->attachData. Here is an example:
Mail::send('emails.whitepaper', [], function ($m) use($pdf) {
$m->to('barasa@wangusi.ke');
$m->subject('Your whitepaper download');
$m->attachData($pdf->generate($data), 'filename.pdf');
});
As long as $pdf->generate($data) in my sample returns the raw bytes, it’ll be attached without having to first save it to the filesystem. For more on this see the documentation.
