Laravel Mail::send() illegal offet 'name'

Question

I'm sure there is a simple solution, but I am having trouble with an error for "illegal string offset" when processing form input for use with the Laravel Mail::send().

This is the code which processes the form input, as it has to be an array.

$msg = array(
    'name'=>Input::get('name'),
    'email'=>Input::get('email'),
    'message'=>Input::get('message')
);

Then I try to send it through Mail::send().

Mail::send('emails.question', $msg, function($message) {
    $message->to('[email protected]')->subject('Email from your website!');
});

The app/views/emails/question.blade.php template is extremely simple.

{{ $msg['name'] }} <br/>
{{ $msg['email'] }} <br/>
{{ $msg['message'] }}

Yet I still get the following error.

    ErrorException (E_UNKNOWN)
Illegal string offset 'name' (View:
[intentionally omitted for privacy]/app/views/emails/question.blade.php)

I believe the error is referring to the $msg['name'] not being present, but if I return the view instead I do not receive an error at all.

return View::make('emails.questions')->with('msg',$msg);

What am I missing?

bdtiger bdtiger · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-11T01:59:15

You have passed $msg as an associative array, so the items of $msg array are available to the view by $key. That's mean in your case like $name, $email and so on. The app/views/emails/question.blade.php now will be like this

{{ $name }} <br/>
{{ $email }} <br/>
{{ $message }}

Laravel Mail::send() illegal offet 'name'

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