Laravel uses the SwiftMailer library for sending emails by default. The SwiftMailer is inbuilt in the Laravel. But, have you tried any other package for sending emails in Laravel? If not, then I will be showing you the PHPMailer in this post. You will already aware of the PHPMailer because in a PHP script generally, use the PHPMailer for sending an email. This is an open-source package and easy to configure and use. This package has lots of feature like you can send emails with multiple To, CC, BCC and Reply-to-address. For the security, it protects against header injection attacks. So, this is very safe to use. You can add attachments, including inline with the emails.

I have already shared lots of tutorials for sending email in Laravel 8. In this tutorial, I will be showing the step by step guide to install and use of PHPMailer example in Laravel 8. So, let’s continue with a fresh installation of Laravel 8.

Prerequisites

For creating a new project in Laravel 8, you must have the following configuration in your system.

• PHP >= 7.3
• MySQL (version > 5)
• Apache/Nginx Server
• VS Code Editor
• Composer

#laravel 8 #php #laravel