how to send attachment files to email using laravel

Question

Controller:

public function sendemail(Request $request)
{
  $data = array(
    'name'=> $request->name,
        'email'=> $request->email,
        'text'=> $request->text,
        'category'=> $request->category,
        'company'=> $request->company,
        'number'=> $request->number
    );

  \Mail::send('AltHr/Portal/supportemail', $data, function ($message) use($data){

      $message->from($data['email'], $data['name']);
      $message->to('[email protected]')->subject($data['company'] . ' - ' .$data['category']);

      $message->attach($request->file('files')->getRealPath(), [
        'as' => $request->file('files')->getClientOriginalName(), 
        'mime' => $request->file('files')->getMimeType()
     ]);

  });
  
  return view('AltHr.Portal.support');
    }

Blade:

<div class="form-group form-group-default">
 <label>Attachment</label>
 <input type="file" name="files[]" accept="file_extension|image/*|media_type" multiple>
</div>

I tried doing a simple contact form to send to my email. Currently it works im able to send that email but without attachments. So i tried doing the code for the attachments but it dont seem to be working im getting error:

Undefined variable: request

What am I doing wrong here?

Answer 1

Your $request variable is undefined because $request variable is not available inside the function you need to passed this below

\Mail::send('AltHr/Portal/supportemail', compact('data'), function ($message) use($data, $request){ ....   });

Add the attr inside the form tag enctype="multipart/form-data"

<form role="form" action="{{action('AltHr\Portal\PortalController@sendemail')}}" method="post" class="m-t-15" enctype="multipart/form-data">
    ....
</form>

Try this code inside your sendemail() method

$data = array(
        'name'=> $request->name,
        'email'=> $request->email,
        'text'=> $request->text,
        'category'=> $request->category,
        'company'=> $request->company,
        'number'=> $request->number
    );
    $files = $request->file('files');
    \Mail::send('AltHr/Portal/supportemail', compact('data'), function ($message) use($data, $files){    
        $message->from($data['email']);
        $message->to('[email protected]')->subject($data['company'] . ' - ' .$data['category']);

        if(count($files) > 0) {
            foreach($files as $file) {
                $message->attach($file->getRealPath(), array(
                    'as' => $file->getClientOriginalName(), // If you want you can chnage original name to custom name      
                    'mime' => $file->getMimeType())
                );
            }
        }
    });