Laravel mail: pass string instead of view

Question

I want to send a confirmation e-mail using laravel. The laravel Mail::send() function only seems to accept a path to a file on the system. The problem is that my mailtemplates are stored in the database and not in a file on the system.

How can I pass plain content to the email?

Example:

$content = "Hi,welcome user!";  Mail::send($content,$data,function(){}); 

Answer 1

update: In Laravel 5 you can use raw instead:

Mail::raw('Hi, welcome user!', function ($message) {   $message->to(..)     ->subject(..); }); 

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This is how you do it:

Mail::send([], [], function ($message) {   $message->to(..)     ->subject(..)     // here comes what you want     ->setBody('Hi, welcome user!'); // assuming text/plain     // or:     ->setBody('<h1>Hi, welcome user!</h1>', 'text/html'); // for HTML rich messages }); 

Answer 2

For Html emails

Mail::send(array(), array(), function ($message) use ($html) {   $message->to(..)     ->subject(..)     ->from(..)     ->setBody($html, 'text/html'); });