Why am I getting undefined variable errors in Laravel method?

Question

I have created a Laravel method in my PageController to send emails when form data is sent like the following:

public function sendMessage(Request $request)
{

    $name = $request->input('name');
    $email = $request->input('email');
    $message_content = $request->input('message');

    // email message
    Mail::raw($message_content, function ($message) 
    {
        $message->from($email, $name);
        // $message->to(env('APP_ADMIN_EMAIL'));
        $message->to("[email protected]");
        $message->subject('Website Message');
    });

    return "message sent";

}

But I get this error when the method is called:

ErrorException Undefined variable: email

Can someone explain what I'm doing wrong?

Marcin Orlowski · Accepted Answer · 2017-12-04 00:41:58Z

9

You need to pass the variables to the closure:

Mail::raw($message_content, function ($message) use ($email, $name)
{
    $message->from($email, $name);
    $message->to("[email protected]");
    $message->subject('Website Message');
});

See docs: https://secure.php.net/manual/en/functions.anonymous.php

edited Dec 4, 2017 at 0:41

Marcin Orlowski

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answered Dec 4, 2017 at 0:39

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