Laravel 5.4^ - How to customize notification email layout?

Question

I am trying to customize the HTML email layout that is used when sending notifications via email.

I have published both the mail and notification views.

Answer 1

I ended up just using a custom view rather than trying to get the built in Laravel ones to work.

I added the following use statement to my Notification class

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\View;
use Illuminate\Support\HtmlString;
use TijsVerkoyen\CssToInlineStyles\CssToInlineStyles;

Then in the toMail method:

public function toMail($notifiable)
    {
        $view_file = 'emails.teamInvitation';
        $view = View::make($view_file, ['sender' => $this->sender, 'invitationToken' => $this->invitationToken, 'team' => $this->team ]);

        $view =  new HtmlString(with(new CssToInlineStyles)->convert($view));

        return (new MailMessage)
            ->subject('PreSource Invitation From ' . $this->sender->name )
            ->view('emails.htmlBlank', ['bodyContent' => $view]);
    }

emails.teamInvitation is my actual email template.

I compile the view in to a string, and then convert the stylesheets to be inline.

emails.htmlBlank is a view file but all it does is echo out bodyContent. This is necessary because the MailMessage->view method expects a view file, and not an HtmlString.