Passing data to a closure in Laravel 4

Question

I'm trying to use the Mail Class in Laravel 4, and I'm not able to pass variables to the $m object.

the $team object contains data I grabbed from the DB with eloquent.

Mail::send('emails.report', $data, function($m)
{
   $m->to($team->senior->email, $team->senior->first_name. ' '. $team->senior->last_name );
   $m->cc($team->junior->email, $team->junior->first_name. ' '. $team->junior->last_name );
   $m->subject('Monthly Report');
   $m->from('info@website.example', 'Sender');
});

For some reason I get an error where $team object is not available. I suppose it has something to do with the scope.

Exact same scenario for me. The Mail::send issue lead to me searching about passing variables to closures and then back to this. Perhaps a sign something needs to be added to the laravel mailer docs on this? — ShaunUK, Jan 12 '15 at 11:20

score 251 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 23 '22 at 23:01

251

If you instantiated the $team variable outside of the function, then it's not in the functions scope. Use the use keyword.

$team = Team::find($id);
Mail::send('emails.report', $data, function($m) use ($team)
{
   $m->to($team->senior->email, $team->senior->first_name . ' '. $team->senior->last_name );
   $m->cc($team->junior->email, $team->junior->first_name . ' '. $team->junior->last_name );
   $m->subject('Monthly Report');
   $m->from('info@website.example', 'Sender');
});

Note: The function being used is a PHP Closure (anonymous function) It is not exclusive to Laravel.

edited Jun 23 '22 at 23:01

Stephen Ostermiller

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Thank you, I did not realize you could use 'use' like that. I only wish I could have learned this sooner. – Douglas.Sesar Jul 20 '14 at 23:12
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Also worked to solve my problem with Maill::queue in Laravel 5 – DavidHyogo Feb 28 '15 at 09:27
@DavidHyogo Me too, glad to find this post – atom2ueki May 04 '15 at 03:18
and also works for advanced search to manage $query->where and orWhere in Laravel 7. Thanks – bcag2 Feb 10 '23 at 10:15

Passing data to a closure in Laravel 4

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