New Order: Email to Restaurant

In this lesson, we will email the restaurant owner when the new order is placed.

An email will contain all the data to process an order. The workflow is pretty straightforward:

Customer makes an order
Owner of the restaurant gets an email

New Order Notification

Create Notification

First, let's create a NewOrderCreated Notification. We can add the --markdown flag to note that the template will contain a markdown, and the value of that flag is the template's location.

php artisan make:notification NewOrderCreated --markdown=mail.order.new-order-created

Notification will accept an $order parameter and then load restaurant, products, and customer relationships in the __construct() method.

app/Notifications/NewOrderCreated.php

namespace App\Notifications;
 
use App\Models\Order;
use App\Models\Restaurant;
use App\Models\User;
use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Collection;
use Illuminate\Notifications\Messages\MailMessage;
use Illuminate\Notifications\Notification;
 
class NewOrderCreated extends Notification
{
    use Queueable;
 
    protected Order $order;
 
    protected Restaurant $restaurant;
 
    protected Collection $products;
 
    protected User $customer;
 
    /**
     * Create a new notification instance.
     */
    public function __construct(Order $order)
    {
        $this->order      = $order;
        $this->restaurant = $order->restaurant;
        $this->products   = $order->products;
        $this->customer   = $order->customer;
    }
 
    /**
     * Get the notification's delivery channels.
     *
     * @return array<int, string>
     */
    public function via(object $notifiable): array
    {
        return ['mail'];
    }
 
    /**
     * Get the mail representation of the notification.
     */
    public function toMail(object $notifiable): MailMessage
    {
        return (new MailMessage)
            ->subject(__('[:restaurant_name] New Order', [
                'restaurant_name' => $this->restaurant->name,
            ]))
            ->markdown('mail.order.new-order-created', [
                'order'      => $this->order,
                'restaurant' => $this->restaurant,
                'products'   => $this->products,
                'customer'   => $this->customer,
            ]);
    }
 
    /**
     * Get the array representation of the notification.
     *
     * @return array<string, mixed>
     */
    public function toArray(object $notifiable): array
    {
        return [
            //
        ];
    }
}

We pass the data to the template via the ->markdown() method like you would do with the blade file via the view() method.

Now let's update the new-order-created.blade.php template with the following content.

resources/views/mail/order/new-order-created.blade.php

<x-mail::message>
# Order #{{ $order->id }}
 
# {{ $restaurant->name }}
 
## Customer
 
{{ $customer->name }}
[{{ $customer->email }}](mailto:{{ $customer->email }})
 
## Order Items
 
@foreach($products as $product)
- {{ $product->name }} {{ number_format($product->price / 100, 2) }} &euro;
@endforeach
 
## Total {{ (number_format($order->total / 100, 2)) }} &euro;
 
Thanks,<br>
{{ config('app.name') }}
</x-mail::message>

Finally, update the OrderController and fire NewOrderCreated Notification.

app/Http/Controllers/Customer/OrderController.php

$user       = $request->user();
$attributes = $request->validated();
 
DB::transaction(function () use ($user, $attributes) { 
$order = DB::transaction(function () use ($user, $attributes) { 
    $order = $user->orders()->create([
        'restaurant_id' => $attributes['restaurant_id'],
        'total'         => $attributes['total'],
        'status'        => OrderStatus::PENDING,
    ]);
 
    $order->products()->createMany($attributes['items']);
 
    return $order;
});
 
$order->restaurant->owner->notify(new NewOrderCreated($order)); 
 
session()->forget('cart');
 
return to_route('customer.orders.index')

This is it, and now the owner will get notified when a new order is made.

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New Order: Email to Restaurant

Create Notification

Course Content

Global Setup and Preparation

Managing Restaurants by Admin

Managing Restaurant Menu by Owner

Placing Orders by Users

Managing Orders by Restaurant Staff