Is it possible to include an image in a HTML email in Laravel

Question

I'm currently trying to send an HTML email via Laravel's Mail::send(). The view in which I'm using is a Blade template, but I'm not quite sure on how I would go about including an image in the body of the email.

In my template, I have

<h4>You have successfully updated your Session!</h4>

@if ( $old_date != $date)
    <p>You have changed from {{ $old_date }} to {{ $date }}</p>
@endif

<p>If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the Office of Admissions</p>

{{ HTML::image('/images/full-logo.png', 'logo') }}

However, my email comes out with just a broken link icon in the body of the email. Is it possible to pass an image as a parameter to the view? In my Controller which sends the email, I have

$data = array (
                        'first_name'    => $student->first_name,
                        'last_name'     => $student->last_name,
                        'date'          => $day,
                        'old_date'      => $old_day,
                );


Mail::send ( '/emails/create_student', $data, function ($message) {
    ...
} );

So I'm not sure if it might be possible to include an image via the $data array.

Answer 1

This one worked for me: The image is declared in the email view

<img src="{{ $message->embed(public_path() . '/resources/icon/icon.png') }}" alt="" />

from Laravel doc "A $message variable is always passed to e-mail views, and allows the inline embedding of attachments."

Answer 2

HTML::image() generates absolute path to image, like this:

http://yoursite.dev/image.png

which works perfectly in your local environment.

Mail client, as Gmail, will override image path with something like this:

http://images.gmail.com/?src=http://yoursite.dev/image.png

Obviosly 3rd party service can't access your local domain and so you see broken image.

As a solution, you can upload images to 3rd party service like Amazon AWS and pass link to uploaded image to email template.