Passing data to a closure in Laravel 4

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Benjamin Gonzalez picture Benjamin Gonzalez · Jan 23, 2013 · Viewed 37.8k times · Source

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('[email protected]', 'Sender');
});

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

Any ideas ?

Answer

Blessing picture Blessing · Jan 23, 2013

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('[email protected]', 'Sender');
});

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

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