How to send email using gmail in PHP Laravel 5?
Laravel is a very popular framework for PHP in today's. Laravel is famous because they provide several goods things like MVC, routing, mail etc. In this article, we will learn how to send email using SMTP driver. Laravel 5 provide several drivers options like SMTP, Mail, SendMail, and services supported include Mailgun, Sendgrid, Mandrill, Amazon SES, etc. So, here i will let you know how to send email from your Gmail account using SMTP driver. Laravel provides the configuration file for email. you can see that file here: config/mail.php, you can also make the change manually but laravel is smart so they provide .env file for configuration as like below: .env MAIL_DRIVER=smtp MAIL_HOST=smtp.gmail.com MAIL_PORT=587 MAIL_USERNAME=addYourEmail MAIL_PASSWORD=AddYourEmailPassword MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls You can simply configuration here as above env variable. now I am going to provide a simple example to add a new route to your route file as like bellow added. ro