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Intricacies of Sending an Invoice

Consider a task as simple as attaching an invoice to an email and sending it to a particular user. It's an incredibly common task, and yet, there are many, many steps involved. What should the invoice look like? How do you programmatically save it as a PDF? How do you attach it to an email? How might you test that the notification was properly sent?

If you're interested, come along as I work on this very task for the Laracasts codebase.

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5
Run Time
38m
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Advanced
Last Updated
Jan 27, 2022
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  1. Episodes (5)

    2. Send a Notification and Attach a PDF

      Now that we know how to save any rendered Blade view as a PDF, let's next prepare a Laravel notification and attach the invoice PDF to it.

    3. Free Logic From the Controller

      Newcomers will often inquire about how to trigger logic in a controller action from elsewhere in the codebase. But this isn't the right way to approach it. Instead, it's better to extract the relevant logic to a dedicated class, and then defer to it as a dependency.

    4. Refactoring Considerations

      We moved pretty quickly in this series. With that in mind, let's take an episode to brush over each class in search of potential improvements.

    5. Notification Tests and Fakes

      Let's wrap up this mini-series by demonstrating how we might test our SendInvoice job. Specifically, we should confirm that a notification is sent to the user each time the corresponding job is dispatched.

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