Lumen and Mandrill - Undefined index: secret

Question

I have a simple site build with Lumen and I need to send emails using Mandrill.

I have set up in the .env file:

MAIL_DRIVER=mandrill
MAIL_HOST=smtp.mandrillapp.com
MAIL_PORT=587
MAIL_USERNAME=mandrill_username
MAIL_PASSWORD=mandrill_api_key
MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS=email_address
MAIL_FROM_NAME=email_name

In the route test I added this code, just to check if it works:

Mail::send( 'emails.gift', $dati, function ( $message ) use ( $dati )
{
    $message->to( $dati['email'], $dati['nome'] . ' ' . $dati['cognome'] )->subject( 'Scarica il tuo regalo.' );
} );

But when I try to send the email I get:

ErrorException in TransportManager.php line 116:
Undefined index: secret

In Lumen there is no the services.php file, so where should I set the secret?

Answer 1

You can create your own services.php file. With the path: your-lumen-project/config/services.php same as Laravel services.php path

your-lumen-project/
    app/
    config/
        services.php 

services.php content:

<?php

return [
    'mandrill' => [
        'secret' => env('MANDRILL_SECRET')
    ],
];

Then put MANDRILL_SECRET=yoursecretkey in your .env file.

Done!