How to use database for mail settings in Laravel

Question

I\'d like to keep users away from editing configuration files, so I\'ve made web interface in admin panel for setting up Mail server, username, password, port, encryption.. I w

Answer 1

@DigitLimit , method share() has been dropped since Laravel 5.4. I had to work-around this problem using other methods, and I am not sure they are perfect. Here is my registerSwiftTransport() method in CustomMailServiceProvider class.

Firstly, we need to determine if code is not executed while calling app through command line: "if(strpos(php_sapi_name(), 'cli') === false)". If we don't check that and don't prevent setting new params in this case, Artisan will throw us errors in command line. Secondly, we need to get settings from database somehow. I did it using my method getSettingValue(), where first argument is setting key, and second argument is default value if setting is not found. As you see, I assigned settings to $this->app['config']['mail']. After that, I used singleton() method:

protected function registerSwiftTransport(){
    if (strpos(php_sapi_name(), 'cli') === false) {
       $this->app['config']['mail'] = [
        'driver'        => Setting::getSettingValue('mail_driver', '****'),
        'host'          => Setting::getSettingValue('mail_host', '****'),
        'port'          => Setting::getSettingValue('mail_port', 25),
        'from'          => [
            'address'   => Setting::getSettingValue('mail_from_address', '****'),
            'name'      => Setting::getSettingValue('mail_from_name', '****'),
        ],
        'encryption'    => Setting::getSettingValue('mail_encryption', '***'),
        'username'      => Setting::getSettingValue('mail_username', '****'),
        'password'      => Setting::getSettingValue('mail_password', '****'),
     ];
   }

   $this->app->singleton('swift.transport', function ($app) { 
       return new Illuminate\Mail\TransportManager($app);
   });
}