Laravel | Passing variable in Notify

Question

I want to send a mail to Notify, it works but when I try to put the variables, It returns that they are undefined. I don't understand how to pass a variable to Notify, I tried to do ->withResult($result) but it didn't work out. Here is the controller:

    $result = Review::where('user_hash', '=', $data['lname_c'])->where('email', $data['email_c'])->orderBy('created_at', 'desc')->first();
    $result->notify(new SendReview());

And my SendReview.php notifications:

public function toMail($notifiable)
{

    return $result['invitation_id']; // test to check if variable is passed
    return (new MailMessage)
                ->line('Test.')
                ->action('Nani', url($url))
                ->line('Thank you');
}

There is user_hash and invitation_id in my Review table, I want to pass them to the notify. When I do return $result['invitation_id']; it works. Hope I am understandable, I checked for duplicate questions and couldn't find one.

Solution 1

This is how they do it in docs.

$arr = [ 'foo' => "bar" ];
$result->notify(new SendReview($arr));

And in your SendReview.php

...

protected $arr;

public function __construct(array $arr) {
        $this->arr = $arr;
}

public function toMail($notifiable) {
        // Access your array in here
        dd($this->arr);
}

Solution 2

You must use $notifiable variable in your Notification class.

It is an instance of the class to which the notification is being sent. So here your review object is passed as $notifiable variable.

You can try to log it as logger($notifiable) in toMail() method and check its properties.

Comments

[Guilhem V]

When I do dd($notifiable['invitation_id']) it return the value but I can't do return $notifiable['invitation_id'], how can I do it?

[Paul Santos]

Why do you need to return the $notifiable['owner']? It does not make sense to me at all.

[Guilhem V]

$notifiable['invitation_id']* sorry

[Paul Santos]

You dont have to return those ids in toMail() method

[Guilhem V]

I have to because I need to a button which redirected to /xxx/$notifiable['invitation_id']/

[Paul Santos]

Hold on. You're confusing me. Do you need to pass an array of data to your mail blade template?

[Guilhem V]

Let me re-explain all, so I have a table review with owner, invitation_id, user_hash etc... I did $result = Review::where('xx', '=', $xx etc..) and after $result->notify(new SendReview());, In my SendReview notification, I need to do the a button which redirected to the following link: **/xxx/{invitation_id from the $result column}/ and I need to return the $result->invitation_id to do url(/xxx/{invitation_id}/

[Paul Santos]

You can actually build the url in your toMail() method by accessing the notifiable parameter. And if ever you need to access the invitation_id after $result->notify(new SendReview()) you can just get it by using $result->invitation_id

[Guilhem V]

I got it! Thank you so much for helping

[Paul Santos]

Anytime brother.