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you call ContactEmail with missing right namespace. so, PHP is autoload ContactEmail from the current Class namespace.
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Hello, I try to use this for sending an email with api but I got this error
Error: Class 'App\Http\Controllers\ContactEmail' not found in file
My controller
public function contact(Request $request)
{
$data = $this->validate($request, [
'name' => 'required',
'email' => 'required|email',
'phone' => 'required|digits:10',
'message' => 'required',
]);
Mail::to( config('mail.from.address') )
->send(new ContactEmail($request->only(['name', 'email', 'phone', 'message'])) );
return response()->json(['sent' => true], 200);
}
Mail Class
public $contact;
/**
* Create a new message instance.
*
*/
public function __construct( array $contact )
{
$this->contact = $contact;
}
/**
* Build the message.
*
* @return $this
*/
public function build()
{
return $this->markdown('mail.contact');
}
Route::post('/contact', [AjaxController::class, 'contact']);
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