Mailble using twig templates (solved)

[thijndehaas]

Laravel version: 5.8

In the last 2 hours I have tried to use twig as a template in a Mailable class. Unfortunately without success.

In the public build function I have tried the following return values:
return View::make('mails.example_view');
return View::make('mails.example_view')->render();
return ['text' => View::make('mails.example_view')];

It seems like the mailable really wants a Blade view as parameter. Does someone have experience in using Twig views for the Mailable Build function?

[thijndehaas]

I just looked through the Mailable source code and used the following code to use the Mailable classs with Twig. Instead of returning the view I just set the Mailable html without a return value.

The solution to use Twig in a Mailable:

<?php

namespace App\Mail;

use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
use Illuminate\Mail\Mailable;
use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
use View;

class ExampleMailable extends Mailable
{
    use Queueable, SerializesModels;

    /**
     * Create a new message instance.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function __construct()
    {
        //
    }

    /**
     * Build the message.
     *
     * @return $this
     */
    public function build()
    {
        //Do not return the View here!
        $this->subject('Subject');
        $this->html(View::make('mails.example')->render());
    }

}